Design

Use Your iPad to Mark Up and Share Website Feedback

November 9, 2012

I just found this cool service that lets you use your iPad to mark up a website and email it to your designer. It’s called AxeApp. Here’s a video to show how it works: I’m using it all the time now to quickly mark up a website and provide feedback to my designers. Check it [...]

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Designing High Quality Landing Pages

October 15, 2012

A landing page is a specifically designed destination site for visitors to arrive at when they click on an ad, or a link in a marketing email (don’t confuse a landing page with your homepage). Unlike your homepage, the focus of a landing page is conversion, and therefore a positive return on investment. Keeping this [...]

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Color Tools

September 1, 2012

When designing a website choosing colors can take forever (at least for me). I find the process of combining colors a bit addictive, how about you? I use a variety of color generators or color scheme selectors, there are a bunch out there, with varying degrees of user friendliness.  Here are a few tools which [...]

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My Design Inspiration “Swipe File”

June 1, 2012

Earlier this week I started a new mini-project called SwipeLog. It’s a place where I capture design elements that inspire and motivate me. Designers like to surround themselves with design elements and visuals that motivate them. Many keep a swipe file of inspiring things they run across, so they can refer to them for ideas [...]

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