In an interview with Carl Smith, Giovanni found out more about The Bureau of Digital Affairs and Carl’s work.
How to deliver a good design critique (Part 1)
A design critique is something we, as designers, have to learn and experience to truly be effective at it. Here are some tips to get you started giving better feedback.
Whiteboarding, sitemapping, and creating a user flow
Clark Buckner of Technology Advice recently spoke with Astute Communications’ Anna Stout, a web designer and front-end developer with keen insight into building better websites.
Rob Harr – The Business of Talent – Part 1
Giovanni talks with Rob Harr of Sparkbox about how he runs his company, how they’ve grown their team in a sustainable way, and how companies might head off the slings and arrows of a volatile client services business.
Online Forms: Post-Submission Etiquette
Take a look at how you manage your the intake of contacts with your website’s forms. Let’s take a look at how to follow up to get new business in smart and planned ways.
What a 5-Year-Old Entrepreneur Taught Carl Smith About Business
nGen Works founder and BizCraft host Carl Smith thought he knew how to run a business until a cold winter’s morning and a persistent five-year-old proved him otherwise. TechnologyAdvice’s Clark Buckner interviewed Smith about “Lessons From the Lemonade Stand”.
James White – The Business of Illustration
Giovanni asked James about how he manages the day-to-day operations of being an independent brand and what it takes to make it as an artist.
Does it matter if users need to scroll?
Why is “the scroll” an important thing to consider? Designers say it doesn’t exist, yet clients talk about it all the time.
Traitify and the Future of Personality-Based Recommendations
In an interview with Clark Buckner from TechnologyAdvice, Traitify cofounder Josh Spears about the company’s origin, how they’re working to make personalized recommendations better, and the future of applying recommendation engines to a broad swath of industries.
Stephanie Hay – Content-first UX Design
Giovanni talks with Stephanie about how she promotes a content first approach that stands our traditional production process on its head and makes content and message the first priority, not the last.
Web Design Trends 2015 – UMS Reader Thoughts
Some of our Unmatchedstyle readers add their thoughts to Web Design Trends for 2015. What do you think will be big in design this year?
4 Tips for Getting a Job in Web Design and Collaborating with Non-Web Designers
Monique Rivers from Ninefold talks about 4 tips for getting a job in web design and collaborating with non-web designers.
How a Chaos Monkey Created Wikipedia Mobile
Hampton Catlin talks about working on the Wikipedia Mobile website/app. He also offers a few parting questions to help bring order to the chaos of the current state of responsive web design.
Val Head – Web Designer, Motion Designer
Giovanni talks with Val about why designers should incorporate animation in their designs, when it’s appropriate and when it’s not.
SVG and the preserveAspectRatio Property
Giovanni DiFeterici runs you through the why, and how of SVGs and the preserveAspectRatio Property
Grunt While You Work
Giovanni DiFeterici runs you through the why, and how to set up Grunt.js, a JavaScript Task Runner – a bit of javascript code that runs other bits of javascript code.
What is the Value of Content in Today’s Web Industry?
Listen to Sara Wachter-Boettcher talk about how to create meaningful content that connects with audiences on a broad range of devices, now and into the future.
Web Design Trends 2015
We share a few of the UMS’ staff predictions for 2015 design trends, give you links and summaries to other designer / sites predictions and ask you to participate by answering a quick survey.