Exploring and understanding audience, encouraging communication, announcing excerpts and celebrating book releases. Just basically talking about websites... and the occasional cupcake.
I love watching the team work. As art/creative director I am definitely part of the process, but I don’t have my hands on the mouse or the the sketchpad. We have design summits here — stretches of time where Misono and Estella turn off email, and I don’t bug them with new or little things [...]
Sometimes spending an extra half hour to an hour to get minute details right is the difference between a design studio and a really good design studio with experienced visual designers.
Look at a bunch of websites… look closely at the space to the sides of the images. Does the content goes too close to a [...]
We’ve all seen this author website: You plug in the URL, excuse the loading time (usually just a second or two), and up comes a high-concept, Flash-built homepage. Maybe the author’s name is animated or the navigation dances when rolled over. Or perhaps a little less cartoonish, the homepage is high design, featuring just a [...]
Last week, Smashing Magazine wrote an article about “Meet the Team” pages… and our Team Page was included!
Read the full Smashing Magazine article about “Meet the Team” Pages here.
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When someone says your name for the first time, how often is it mispronounced? Even with a name as obvious as mine, well over half the time it comes back to me as “Colter” or “Cutler.”
But some folks have it made. Their names are easy to pronounce. Nora Roberts. Julia Quinn. Jane Porter.
And this is [...]
