unconventional branding

The Zen of Web Site Mock-ups

How many of you truly understand the proper steps in a web site mock-up? I bet many of you are already thinking of wireframes, grey boxing, sketching, and probably storyboarding. However, how many of you have truly come to love a custom system that you employ?

A truly great web site mock-up should not only be enjoyable to create but it should culminate into a beautiful / usable work of art for your client. Don’t get weighed down by the conformist proxies of our trade. Break the norm and develop your own process by which a web site is created. I have my own process which I’ll discuss with you below and I call sketchedbox-comp-storyframing-grey-modeling.

Intuitive Design (web navigation concepts)

In this post I will attempt to describe some best practices to follow when designing web navigation.
During my weekly dose of reading I stumbled across a very interesting concept involving web navigation. At the moment I happened to be reading “Designing the Moment Web Interface Design Concepts in Action.” The particular passage that caught my [...]

Good Design: Consumer-Friendly Packaging

A new option on Amazon.com allows consumers to choose how some items are packaged before they are shipped.  Genius.
Anyone who’s ever bought anything, from toys to electronics, has experienced “wrap rage” (ie, ‘How the heck are you supposed to open this without slicing off a finger ?!’).  Those plastic-coated wire thingies poking out of mysterious, [...]

CSS Layout: A Good Base

When designing websites for the 21st century you will want to consider using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS is helping front end developers present users with more visually stunning sites than use to be possible when tables (*gasp*) were used for web layouts. The true beauty of CSS however lies in the capability of having clear, modular, and concise code. The purpose of this post is to dive into CSS by first resetting and then setting new base styles in which to develop with.

Intuitive Design

Intuitive design is something that all of us should strive for everyday within our creative workplace. Intuitive design is the direct combination of two terms. (Of which I am sure that we’re all very familiar, but for those that are not…)

intuitive:
capable of being perceived or known by intuition
intuition on dictionary.com
design:
organization or structure of formal elements [...]

Green Design

Why Green Design?
“According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the world population is expanding at a mind-boggling rate. The world reached 1 billion people in 1800; 2 billion by 1922; and over 6 billion by 2000. It is estimated that the population will swell to over 9 billion by 2050. That means that if the world’s [...]