I wrote this essay for Dan Cavicchi’s Audience class at the Rhode Island School of Design. Except this time it wasn’t reproduced here for posterity, it was only produced here. There’s no question that audience has always been an important consideration in design. Hell, it isn’t design if there isn’t an audience. But the web has […]
An essay I wrote for Dan Cavicchi’s Audience class at RISD about the use of interface metaphors on the iPad, and why it was justified for Apple to strongly suggest developers use them in their Human Interface Guidelines.
There is a big difference between spec work or crowd sourcing and voicing ideas about a redesign on Dribbble, and that difference is audience.
A post on Drawar criticizing some designers’ reaction to Gap’s new brand seemed so off-base to me I had to respond.
After two years of using WebAdvisor at RISD, I finally had enough. Now with Chrome and Safari extensions, I never have to look at its interface again.
A style of writing CSS that I have been using lately that combines the benefits of the multi-line and single-line styles.
You shouldn’t need to “test an idea out” before you run it on your own blog. Have people forgotten that blogs are about opinions?
Art direction doesn’t need to be an all-or-nothing treatment. Who’s to say there’s nothing between completely art-directed content and the default template?
The Opera Mini application was just approved by Apple and honestly, I’m disappointed.
To go with this website’s redesign, I designed a completely new identity that is applied to everything—as it should be.
When the iPad was released, one of its features caught my attention: the 1024 x 768 resolution. That meant that my website was definitely too wide, so I readjusted.
Résumés in actual HTML are becoming commonplace on portfolio sites, but they often don’t get used to their full potential.
This site has gone through a lot of redesigns. This latest design is my attempt to get up to date with current standards.
This is where I will discuss my thoughts as they relate to design. It will be an interesting exercise.
