Post
-
Are Infographics taking over your world?
Recently I have been thinking about those illustrated ladybird books, and I have also treated myself to the an anthology of Eagle cutaways. I am too young to have seen the originals but they hold an amazing position at a moment when people felt technology and its development should be easily understood. Anyway now they…
Written by
-
Am I making or designing?
Just had a discussion with my manager about the anxiety of modern fathers over the fact that the creative skills children are developing these days are to do with the intangible virtual interactions, whereas my youth was about making stuff, physical interactions.
Written by
-
Jean-Paul Edwards talks to IPC about Media Futures
Jean-Paul Edwards from the agency Manning Gottlieb OMD spoke across a broad range of topics, giving a great overview of where he felt technology was taking the media market. The stand-out point I took from his speech was a metaphor he used about the fragmentation of the ‘media landscape’. He spoke of a ‘media landscape’ or ‘media ecosystem’…
Written by
-
Why changing direction is so difficult for creative people?
How do you tell when you’ve become set in your creative direction? By this I mean the processes, skills, disciplines and behaviour that you employ to be creative. For example wireframe > look and feel > prototype > delivery. These may be some of the creative processes a web designer may use to see a…
Written by
-
Push and Pull a new tug of war for old media
The notion of ‘push’ is when you push your content towards an audience who may or may not be aware of its existence. In a ‘pull’ environment the consumer pulls their content towards themselves because they are interested in it.
Written by
-
WordPress: has its moment arrived?
Why is WordPress such a powerful tool? It was first released in May 2003 and has seen constant improvements resulting in it being on 2.6 since July 2008. It has become more and more relevant to a publishing company as the WordPress software has developed and is now able to support ‘magazine‘ themes. This has led…
Written by
-
What I do all day
As a web designer I often wonder what other web designers get up to all day. So I thought the least I could do is share a day with my colleagues. To the best of my knowledge there are just under ten of us at IPC. In no particular order myself, Nadeem Akhtar, Andrew McManus,…
Written by
-
Google Chrome explained by Scott McCloud
Before the day is out and because anyone who has any interest in web technology has already blogged on it, Google Chrome is out and about. But I would just like to draw your attention to the supporting documentation. Read about the technology. It has been drawn by Scott McCloud. He authored Understanding comics and Reinventing Comics, which…
Written by
-
Card sorting and post it notes
At the beginning of a project a card sorting exercise will guide the business owners towards a structure for the content of their site. Everybody uses post-it notes. Putting it all up on a wall is key, so everyone involved can take in the whole site.
Written by
-
It’s ugly, but it gets you there.
Its a web designer’s conundrum. That despite our best efforts some of the sites that are the most popular don’t appear to have a strong visual design. Some people might say they are ugly. It is a balancing act that is one of the great skills of visual design on the web. Usability, Information architecture…
Written by