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 [...]

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 [...]