A User-Centered Approach To Web Design For Mobile Devices
06/05/2011
For the past few years, we’ve heard pundits declaring each year as “year of the mobile Web”; each year trying to sound more convincing than the previous. Whether 2011 will be the real “year of the mobile” remains to be seen, but what is indisputable is the fact
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Design inspiration: find it with a walk
04/05/2011
It is a concept that an employer cannot easily understand, but that’s how it is.
It is useless to lock up a designer in a narrow room and impose on him to crank out masterpieces of creativity: inspiration, same as with fantasy, it is not commanded. It simply comes and fleeting as it comes, it goes.
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How to present the draft to the client: tips and examples
29/04/2011
Here, we go, we finally got it: inspiration finally paid off and the graphic draft of the site we’re working on is finally finished. A last revision at the details et voilà , it’s ready to be presented to the client on a silver platter. Yes, but how?
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Who still needs a web designer?
28/04/2011
The title is strong and provocative, but in this article we’ll talk about how one of the web professions mostly misunderstood is evolving. A premise is required: I love WordPress and Drupal ( I prefer WordPress). The maturity of these CMS opensources is – with the abolition of IE6 and the arrival of Iphone – one of the most interesting things in these last years, even if it presents problems at different levels in some of the professional profiles that I consider “ adjacent” like the web designer and the programmer.
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Freelancer’s errors: a few tips to work better
27/04/2011
To choose to work as a freelancer involves, obviously, a series of advantages and disadvantages with which each of us have to deal with. On one side, the long yearned professional freedom and the desire to self-manage one’s own professionalism, on the other side the economical insecurity (especially at the beginning), the difficulties in the bureaucracy management ( how to draw up a good preventive? What kind of contract to use? ) and the organization (how to find the first clients? How many projects can I work at the same time?)
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