You usher your new client into the boardroom or client’s interview room and heave a sigh. You need to explain for the 10 millionth time what the role of a client is. Never expect them to automatically understand and remember even though it is the 10 millionth time for you, it is the first time [...]

Are you someone capable of being a total innovator? What is an innovator? An innovator is someone who not only has original thoughts of clever and useful ideas but actually can implement them successfully. While many people have good ideas often they fail to act on them or maybe don’t have the know how to [...]

You get your design instructions from your client and then proceed to start the design. This sounds like the perfect scenario. You are given a gem of a website to develop, and it is going swimmingly. Everything is slotting into place like it was meant to be UNTIL your first meeting with the client. It [...]

I know from experience that too much computer isn’t good for you. You can burn yourself out. You need to be able to balance your life to be able to give your best work. It sounds a little strange to say that being away from the computer can improve your design and inspiration on the [...]

When you are using typography, there are certain ground rules people learn to enable them, use fonts with the best effect. The most important thing about the type and using a type on a website is that it needs to be readable. The way you would start out choosing your fonts would be to decide [...]

What exactly makes computers green beside the red apple logo? Sorry I just had to wonder considering they just held the “first International Conference on Green Computing” about a month or so ago. How computers, which have to be taken apart carefully and not put out with the normal trash to be destroyed, can be [...]

Keeping up to date with the forward march of the web can be a full time job. You really need to allocate at least an hour a day reading up on the latest developments.  I liken it to a doctor who fails to keep up with the real progress in medicine. I don’t mean the [...]

Are there some designs you look back on with shame? Remember everyone makes a mistake or two when learning design. Those original designs you made in those days were probably great when you made them but the thing about design is taste changes as do methods of presentation. The most important thing about those mistakes [...]

The most beautiful website in the world can be totally useless if it isn’t well organised with a good flow of design. All elements of your design need to be well integrated with a clearly articulated menu. The need for your website to be totally clear in design with easy to follow steps that are [...]

Mobile design is something more and more of us have to contend with whether we want to or not. The new age of design is upon us, and we need to think a lot smaller and more compact as a result. The days of unlimited bandwidth can take a backseat again. You really need to [...]