iQ: Very cool typeface
Posted by David | Filed under Customer Service
Take a look at how the new iQ font was created.
Watch a video on how iQ was created.
http://nl.toyota.be/cars/new_cars/iq/iq_font.aspx
Jing Project
Posted by David | Filed under Design, Mini Post, TechSmith, Web
TechSmith launch Jing Pro this week and so far it has been well received. One of the things that was key to the successful launch was the new jingproject.com site, which was largely due to work done by my counter- part Nick and one of our amazing writers, Dan. I got to help a little on this one too… I took the essence of the Jing site and tried to build this bridge page on techsmith.com.
Tags: Design, Jing Project, Nick Gorsline, TechSmith
Camtasia Studio 6 launch!
Posted by David | Filed under Design, Ideas, TechSmith, Web
This week we launched the new Camtasia Studio 6 and with it, a new site. I was heavily involved in the design and development of the site, though, as is always the case at TechSmith a lot of people pitched in to make sure that this is a successful site.
A quick video walk-through of the site that I will be adding sound and narration to soon.
Heat map results for the initial 5000 visits, via a CrazyEgg test.
Tags: camtasia studio, Design, TechSmith, Web
Totally ripped off.
Posted by David | Filed under Design, Mini Post, Web
For several months now I have been trying to get the site that ripped off my design (compare to my archived portfolio site) to do one thing for me. Delete my Google Analytics tracking code from their site.
Tags: analytics, code, Design, Google, ripped off
An Event Apart was awesome. Awesome!
Posted by David | Filed under Design, Ideas, Mini Post, Web
In case you did not catch that, An Event Apart was awesome! What a conference. What speakers. All amazing. I am still unpacking my notes and digesting all the tidbits. More to come as soon as possible.
Check out the Flickr pics.
Summary of the conference.
All speakers centered their conversations around Design, Code, User Experience or Inspiration. Most covered a couple.
Zeldman: “Have empathy.” Jeffery states that a great designer must have empathy for the audience and be a great communicator. “Know your audience and know yourself” he says.
Tags: An Event Apart, code, Design, user experience, Web
Tools to test your site for free.
Posted by David | Filed under Design, Ideas, Web
In July I decided to relaunch MoultonStudio.com. It was time. I have been at my new job for over a year, my desire to publish has been much stronger, and I finally settled on a design concept that I like*. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: CrazyEgg, Design, Google, tools, tracking, visual, Web Design
My Wordle – A very cool tool
Posted by David | Filed under Ideas, Mini Post, Web
Today I was introduced to Wordle.net. This is an amazingly cool site/tool. It is also a major time suck (in a good way). I wish I could have had this during my early graphic design classes where we were constantly challenged to experiment with type —this could have been a source of massive inspiration. Check it out, and feel free to link to your saved version
Tags: Design, inspiration, type, Web
Spell Check.
Posted by David | Filed under Design, Ideas
Almost all modern software can do spell check… rare is the app that does it really well. I would love to see two things done better. Make spell check “ON” all the time. This is especially true for Adobe Dreamweaver.I am awful at spelling and this is the one program that is rotten at spell check. Then I go and publish and my pages are full of errors. One part me being lazy, one part bad UI/function design. All bad. Read the rest of this entry »
Brainstorming… part 1
Posted by David | Filed under Design, Ideas
Today Nick and I discussed brainstorming. How to brainstorm. When to brainstorm. What to do about the “wet blanket”. We laughed. We plodded along. He mentioned bedinner, again. Another laugh. Back to the brainstorming thing talk. He says that this is a process that is done best with small(er) groups. I wonder what smaller means. One? Two? Maybe five? I’ll have to follow up. I like to think that the number is something you deal with by having a process/procedure in place depending on how many you want/have to include. Though I agree that to many will ruin it… Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Design