When the #%*@ just won’t stick and your deadline is fast approaching, being a designer is not fun. It’s a problem every designer has faced, many times. And if you’re looking for inspiration, everyone and their uncle is ready to tell you how to find it. Even me.
But, when it comes down to it, when [...]
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Over Worked
My life as of late, has been nothing but work. I’ve been caught in this vicious loop that interconnects my bed, my computer and my bar tender. Seriously, I’ve been that pathetic. I’ve been so over worked that past couple weeks, that it’s all I can do to muster up enough energy to drag my [...]
The Conversation Goes Like This . . .
I’m not one to put myself through extensive pains finding the right title for business cards. I am a designer. I design for the web. Simple enough, right? The truth, however, is that it really isn’t. It’s a curious thing when, after all this time, the title web designer isn’t specific enough. On more than [...]
Women Who Design the Web Survey: 2007 Results – Part I
There is one thing you’re sure to learn when you conduct a survey: just how many things you did wrong. My first attempt at conducting a survey of women web designers, made clear (sometimes embarrassingly so), just how many things I hadn’t thought through very well. It’s been a learning experience.
Back in late April of [...]
The Amish don’t make good web designers
Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t rule it entirely out, but chances are…
Anyway, this week I got to thinking, you know those moments where you just know you’re pushing things in the wrong direction? Like trying to back a car into a tent, or, I guess, pushing a cart up a hill? Sure, it might [...]
web factory
Delivering under tight deadlines is pretty much what you’re in for, if you’re a web designer. Knowing how to handle it, is what will make you a designer of the web. As many times as I’ve wanted to pull my hair out with unrealistic deadlines and “last minutes”, I also get my adrenaline fix out [...]
Women Who Design the Web
Survey is Now Closed. The survey was conducted from May 4, 2007 to October 22, 2007.
In February 2007, Jason Kottke published information showing the low percentage of female speakers at conferences about design, technology, and the web. Among the conferences under fire was An Event Apart. Jeffrey Zeldman, who founded the conference along with Eric [...]
design jobs for designers
Some exciting projects in the works and I can use your input. Hailing from San Francisco, Craig’s List central, I can use some feedback for my latest project. My latest project, duck duck Penguin is a comprehensive Jobs Board, specifically geared towards designers and developers. Yep, it’s true. I know there are a plethora (to [...]
5 things every web designer should know
The website project you’ve been working on for the last four months has finally come to a wrap. All of the blood, sweat and pixels you put into the project have finally culminated into something you can be proud of. You can put down your Wacom pen and your text editor and step away from [...]
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