Designers

Jorge Frascara about Designing Effective Communications & Communication Design

By Johan on October 25th, 2006.

Wonderful books that deal with a variety of topics including design patterns, web usability, accessibility, design business, search engine optimalisation, CSS techniques, … you name it. These sort of publications can change your perception, broaden your views and give you new ideas. In your life as a webdesigner, interface …

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Design Slumpbusting

By Phil Renaud on October 11th, 2006.

Just as every writer eventually experiences writer’s block, every designer will at some point in time hit a wall where they cannot easily continue designing through. When you’re grinding it out for a dayjob, it’s slightly easier - you at least have the paycheque to look forward to - but …

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Andy Budd: About User Experiences And Design

By Johan on October 9th, 2006.

For people that just joined in. Andy Budd breaths and eats the brave new web, if you don’t already you should try it. Our interviewee is into CSS-based webdesign, user experiences, web standards, accessibility. And above all he likes to talk about this stuff a lot at conferences …

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Home Sweet Home

By Abhijit Nadgouda on October 5th, 2006.

An aspect of web design that can make or break the website’s appeal is the homepage. While a lot of visitors will be carried by the search engines to the insides of the website, most of them will resurface on the homepage if they are looking for more. From corporate …

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Client Speak

By Anshul on October 4th, 2006.

Just to let everyone know, this is my first post on fadtastic and it feels great to contribute at the same place where people like Phil Renaud write. Now to the article.

Lots of good and bad rants have been written about what designers hate about clients. Has any designer ever …

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Empirically Beautiful/Beautifully Empirical

By PJOnori on September 26th, 2006.

Anyone that has read Andy Rutledge in the past knows that his style is intended to immediately get your attention. The articles begin with a strong opinion that is usually backed up with relatively good thought. Nonetheless, I was a little taken aback when I read a recent …

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CSS3: what it means, and what it doesn’t

By Phil Renaud on August 20th, 2006.

Just in case you missed it: The CSS3 preview.

What with standardists ruling the web trends scene right now, the emergence of a new specification template for CSS is bound to be a major point of consideration in future endeavors. It is not, however, going to be remembered as the …

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A shortcut to 456 Berea Street

By Johan on July 31st, 2006.

I interviewed (just a little) Roger Johansson, a webdeveloper living and working in Göteborg, Sweden. He is the driving force behind 456 Berea Street, a weblog where you will find a whole bunch of articles related to webstandards, accessibility and usability.

Roger has made a a best of archived articles …

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A Trends Interview ~ Part 1 of 3

By Andrew Faulkner on July 9th, 2006.

I’m thinking it’s time to pose some questions to designers (or people opinionated about design) about web design trends and their role on the web. So here I am, introducing Part 1 of A Trends Interview. Many thanks to the designers who put the effort into their responses.
1. The Web2.0 …

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The Unknown Blogger and First Impressions

By Jason Spector on June 30th, 2006.

In “Leaving An Impression“, Steven Teskey addresses some important issues regarding brand identity and your perception in the greater on-line universe. But just as important as your lasting impression is your first impression, which is the foundation of the following post.

When communicating with other bloggers through their web sites, …

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Leaving An Impression

By Steven Teskey on June 19th, 2006.

We all know of our presence on the web, every action we take may be considered good or bad in the eyes of any person that takes witness. The Internet is a history of our interactions with the rest of the world. So why should any of us really care about anything that I’ve just said? Simple, how we act leaves an impression on anyone that interacts with us or anything/anyone associated with us.

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A new breed of web designers

By Johan on May 18th, 2006.

Are you a real pro webdesigner?

Webdesigners from around the globe have various educational backgrounds: multi-media college, graphic design, computer sciences, communication sciences. In fact, a large portion of the pool of webdesigners is completely self-taught by means of online tutorials, books, workshops or on-the-job training. Anyone can become a …

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