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A blast from the past for "December, 2006"

1. The greatest design tool is customer service

   Thursday, December 28th, 2006 | 5 Comments

   Regardless of how powerful, persuasive, influential or informational your design is; it will mean nothing if you’ve ignored well designed customer service. I’ve been touting the concept of Business-Oriented-Design for a while now and customer service is very much apart of that larger idea. Whether you consider yourself a designer, developer or artist – you […]

2. Interview with Crazy Egg Founder and CEO, Hiten Shah

   Tuesday, December 26th, 2006 | 7 Comments

   I’ve recently been focusing a good majority of my attention on web analytics – both the science behind the numbers and the applications that deliver. All of this in a pursuit to deliver a better user experience through design and development – anticipating user expectations, testing results and implementing changes for success. I recently had […]

3. Thank you Andy Budd – an unexpected Christmas gift

   Sunday, December 24th, 2006 | No Responses

   I woke up this Christmas Eve to see to my delight that I’ve won a copy of “CSS Mastery“, by Andy Budd. I entered Andy’s “Letter to Santa” competition earlier this month. I didn’t expect to win, but thought such a creative contested deserved an entry. I really enjoy contests such as these; promoting great […]

4. Every Designer Needs a “Personal Board of Directors”

   Monday, December 18th, 2006 | 10 Comments

   We are creative designers; most everything we do is subjective and easily critiqued or criticized. Most of us know where we look to for inspiration, but do we know who we look to – do we even have someone, anyone, we can talk to or share ideas with? Some may say our co-workers; others may […]

5. Hello 9rules Network!

   Friday, December 15th, 2006 | 9 Comments

   I am proud to say that as of about 4:45pm yesterday evening I was admitted into the 9rules Network. I’ve been a long time reader and it is a privilege to now be a contributor. So, for all you first time readers, hello! And to the team over at 9rules, thank you for your consideration […]

6. Designing outside of your text editor

   Thursday, December 14th, 2006 | 6 Comments

   They say those who can’t do, teach. Do you suppose those who can’t design, develop? Now that is a pretty harsh statement and I don’t mean to imply that designers are better than developers or that all developers can’t design. It does seem as though, those more focused on the technical side of the […]

7. CSS Mastery iPod Giveaway

   Friday, December 8th, 2006 | 6 Comments

   Dear Santa,

8. Time Breakdown of modern Web Design

   Thursday, December 7th, 2006 | 29 Comments

   This pie chart will prove as a nice little break from your Thursday grind. I was forwarded this design break down earlier this morning and found it hilarious! I personally am frustrated by the “time spent actually designing anything” – sad but true in this rapid development world we are working in.

9. Did you know Photoshop could …. underline text and spell check?

   Monday, December 4th, 2006 | 15 Comments

   There are two must-know Photoshop techniques that every designer should be aware of, especially those of us working in the web space. Content is said to be king and thus designing for that content is all essential. For those of you out-of-the-know, since at least Photoshop 7.0 you’ve had the ability to underline and spell […]

10. Connecting the Metrics to Web Strategy & Design

    Friday, December 1st, 2006 | No Responses

    Today I sat among an intimate group of web managers in Washington D.C. to discuss web analytics and their impact on strategy and design. I recently wrote about where to start building your website, but what next? Once we have an understanding of our audience’s expectations and desires, we need to start watching their behavior […]