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So You’re Thinking of Becoming a Designer

In Design Discourse on 30 July 2009 tagged bobulate, bokardo, coudal, Design Discourse, jmspool, portigal, simmy, sva, video, whitneyhess with 8 comments

A few days ago, my friend Liz Danzico asked a number of designers, researchers and other industry vetarans including Jim Coudal, Jared Spool, Joshua Porter, Ryan Sims, Steve Portigal, Whitney Hess and many others to answer this: So you’re thinking about being a designer? If I could tell you only *one thing* about going into [...]

IA Summit: Inspiration From the Edge

In Design Discourse, Game On, Presentations on 16 April 2008 tagged Design Discourse, iasummit, iasummit08, iasummit2008, poetpainter, stephenpanderson with 2 comments

I’ve often believed that the best designers don’t get their ideas and inspiration from the place they work. As a designer that works in the social web space, I do look at a large number of new sites that come through the pipeline for inspiration. However, I also am a big advocate of experimenting with [...]

IA Summit: Content Page Design Best Practices

In Design Discourse, Presentations on 16 April 2008 tagged content, Design Discourse, iasummit, iasummit08, iasummit2008, lukew with 1 comment

Luke Wroblewski of Functioning Form and Yahoo! describes a framework for designing content on a site. He begins with a discussion on how we currently optimize for sites – by studying their hierarchy and how pages relate to each other within the site. However, the site does not live on its own but rather as [...]