Helping Your Clients Build an Effective Mobile Strategy
It can be a challenge convincing clients to add new strategies to their existing Web presence.
In a perfect world, a client would simply say, "You’re the expert. You know what’s best. Do whatever needs to be done to make it happen!" But, unfortunately, it just doesn’t work like that.
10 Excellent Online Payment Systems
In this article, we’ll be reviewing my top 10 online payment systems for accepting payments on the Web. While many of the companies on this list have been available to online merchants for years, many are also now getting into new areas of online payments such as social commerce and in-store online card reader systems.
5 Reasons Why Metaphors Can Improve the User Experience
There are many ways to experience the world around us. Especially offline, we can make use of our different senses to collect information, interpret our environment and make judgments.
On the Web, however, our senses are more limited. As designers, we need to present information carefully to make sure our users think, feel and do the right thing.
30 Minimalist Portfolio Website Designs for Inspiration
There seems to be a recent trend whereby creatives are aesthetically stripping down their online portfolios to their bare essentials. (UK-based web designer/web developer Kean Richmond recently discussed this trend in an article about "undesign", and the possible reasons why this trend is becoming widespread.)
In this showcase, you’ll get to see 30 great examples of minimalist portfolio sites for your inspiration.
“Undesign” Your Portfolio Website
Even the most ineffective, unattractive or simple of man-made objects have been designed in some way. The same is true for the Web: Even the most hideous of websites are created by someone who has consciously made decisions into its design.
For web design professionals, it’s normal to put a lot of work into a design, using research, analysis and their expertise to form a design to delight and engage. This process is not quick and while many of us spend hours crafting websites for clients, our own website goes wanting.
It’s in this situation that the process of undesign is growing.
Announcement: Winners of Credits on Stockfresh
In a recent giveaway, we announced that we’d give away 100 credits on Stockfresh (with a value of $79.99) to three lucky participants. The winners would be awarded credits that they can use to download royalty-free stock photos and vector illustrations on the Stockfresh site. In this post, you’ll find out who the winners are.
