by Gene Crawford | Jul 7, 2010 | Podcast, UMS Video Podcast
In this episode of the UMS podcast Matthew Smith (@squaredeye) of Squared Eye and patterntap.com gives us the spill (sorry that was supposed to be a beer pun…) on why beer has been so influential on his design career and we also talk about how the work on...
by Gene Crawford | Jun 8, 2010 | Podcast, UMS Video Podcast
The “call to action” on your website is possibly the most important focus point you should design for. A “call to action” is something on your website that compels or helps a visitor to take an action. It’s not too tricky, it’s all...
by Gene Crawford | May 18, 2010 | Podcast, UMS Video Podcast
Jay and I discuss Thinking for a Living (thinkingforaliving.org). It’s a beautifully designed website, we just had a few issues we wanted to discuss with the interactions on the site. Largely we talked about the copy columns, how you have to continually move the...
by Gene Crawford | May 10, 2010 | Podcast, UMS Video Podcast
We look at Harmony Republic (harmonyrepublic.com) in detail in this podcast. We both like the design, the use of texture is really great and the layout is interesting. The thing I like most about the design is the typography, I love the font pairings made here. Our...
by Gene Crawford | Apr 28, 2010 | Podcast, UMS Video Podcast
CannyBill.com design project discussion with the client Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine and the designer Andy Clarke (@cowshedstudio) of stuffandnonsense.co.uk and creator of Hard Boiled Web Design. We started off discussing the reasons behind why Wladimir chose Andy to be...
by Gene Crawford | Apr 13, 2010 | News, Podcast, UMS Video Podcast
Jason Johnson gives us a great presentation on the “care and feeding of a developer”. Be sure to follow him on twitter: @jason_johnson. You can watch the video above or read the full transcript below, the video is much better but sometimes words are nice...