by Gene Crawford | Oct 27, 2009 | Gallery
The overall layout of this site is simple and not particularly inspiring but the illustrations are just great. They really make the site memorable for me. I really love those little yellow birds. Honestly I think it’s the mixing of the custom illustrations and...
by Gene Crawford | Oct 27, 2009 | Design Firm, Gallery
I really like a lot of this design, the secondary colors are very subdued allowing the main red color to really shine. There are some good design elements like the jagged shaping around the nav and the horizontal lines on the main copy display area. I do wonder why...
by Gene Crawford | Oct 27, 2009 | Food and Beverage, Gallery
Submitted by Chris Ball @ballzy, Deigner. I really love the “crafty” feel to this design, with the navigation and other elements having a really great “hand made” feel. The twitter bird illustration is a thing of beauty as well. I also love the...
by Gene Crawford | Oct 26, 2009 | Education, Gallery
Great illustration goes a long way on a website. I really like how it tells the story of the service right away. The colors are also “childlike” but not overly so. I like all the detail work on this site, the buttons and colors and little flourishes here...
by Gene Crawford | Oct 26, 2009 | Interviews
Aarron Walter. is the author of Building Findable Websites: Web Standards, SEO, and Beyond (New Riders, 2008) and the lead user experience designer for MailChimp. For more than a decade Aarron has been busy building websites for his clients, and teaching interactive...