I use my debit card on a regular basis, and have to suffer through the horrible experiences of those credit card consoles quite often. Every now and then I run across one that’s intuitive and easy to use, but I can’t remember what retailer uses those, and for good reason. You’re not suppose to remember your experience with the credit card machine! There is one in particular that has been getting on my nerves and last time I used it I took a picture. Its the “enter your pin” screen at my local Central Market.
Monthly Archives: July 2009
The Pin Number Screen
Adobe Fireworks and Web Design
It amazes me how many people in my industry are not using fireworks these days. Simply put, its the best tool when it comes to web design. Especially for any kind of content driven design that relies on information for its content rather than graphics alone. For those who haven’t tried it, or don’t know what Fireworks can do, let me try to give you a quick rundown of a few of its advantages.
Designing your Portfolio
Over the past few weeks I’ve gone through the process of designing this site for myself and thought I’d share some of my findings about designing for your own worst client…. You.
As designers, we’re never going to be satisfied with our own work. There will always be something better out there, and we’ll always strive to have the coolest, slickest web portfolio out there. Its a never ending loop that ends with frustration and an unfinished design. The key is to stay simple and set a deadline…
Skate2
Roles: Art Direction, Information Archetecture, Lead Designer
URL: skatereel.ea.com
Launch Date: Fall 2008
The Skate2 site had already been designed by another firm, but EA hired us to create the user interface and functionality behind the skateReel section of the site. This involved designing around and solving many complex problems and use case scenarios to create the best [...]
Pollstar.com
Roles:Art Director, Lead Designer
URL:www.pollstar.com
Launch Date:December, 2008
Pollstar.com was due for a redesign, and they hired Telligent to handle the project since they were planning on running it on our CMS and community platform called Community Server. It wasn’t exactly a seamless transition from what they had up, and a lot of collaboration and thought went into [...]
Personal vs. Professional Personas
Should our online personal and professional personas be separated?
Online Social Media and Networking isn’t really all that new anymore, but it’s relationship to your professional life is. If you’re like me, you’ve got accounts on sites like myspace, facebook, flickr, delicious, twitter, brightkite, a personal blog and professional blog that are all recording and broadcasting your life to your friends, family and co-workers. I share lots of personal experiences on these sites, as do a lot of other people, that may or may not represent myself as a reliable and professional person. There wouldn’t be much of a problem with this except that my professional life has taken over just as much a share in my online identity as my personal life has…
NFS Proof of Concept
Roles:Art Director, Lead Designer
Date:March, 2008
This was a proof of concept for a client looking to build a site for an upcoming video game. The game and assets delivered had a very grungy and over saturated feel to them, so we ran with that and created this concept for the home page design in a couple [...]
