Tag Archives for Quality
Design Rules to Live By #8
This weeks “Design Rule to Live By” is based on understanding the direction of the web, web design, and having a vision of what is coming next and how to use it best for our clients.
Design Rules to Live By #6
This weeks “Design Rule to Live By”, has to do with taking criticism, constructive or not, and using it in a way to improve and expand our skill set.
Design Rules to Live By #3
This weeks design rule has to do with client/dev team relationships, and dealing with questions and revision requests…
Rethink. Relearn. Redesign.
I have found myself to be a pretty high-strung person… always on the go, looking to keep moving. As a result I am constantly thinking about what is next for me, for my approach to design (and all the related disciplines), and this site. In so doing I have been searching for something fresh, whether it be developing a new skill set, or further developing certain existing skills (both of these provide great opportunity for growth) to work towards mastering current disciplines. Continue reading
You are only as good as your content
Apologies in advance if this seems like a rant(not my intention) but, I recently watched a great video on Big Think. The video was an interview with Jeffery Zeldman of Happy Cog about the history of blogging. Zeldman talked about the nineties, and the growth of online presence, blogging and the progress of the web. One of the quotes that he said really stuck with me… Continue reading
Friday Vidcast 4-03-09
So in this weeks Vidcast I talk about my new project www.onecss.com I am really excited about this as it is a great opportunity to build a community. Keep checking back for updates. I also talk about one of the recent posts… [read more] Continue reading
Conflict and Team Development
Building a Successful Development Team Pt.3 – Dealing with Conflict from Aaron Irizarry on Vimeo.
We have looked at how to write code that is easy for our development team to pick up and use (and in so doing fueling efficiency, and better teamwork), then we looked at communication between team members, and some of the tools we can use to help facilitate effective team communication. In part 3 of this series we are going to look at dealing with conflict in a development team environment. Continue reading
Quality or Quantity pt.2
I posed the question “Quality or Quantity?” in an effort to get some feedback from the design community on this subject as. Most of the results were pretty much inline with what I expected.
I would like to unpack this some more and hopefully show that it is not Quality vs. Quantity, but Quality and Quantity. It should be our goal to provide a steady diet of both. So lets look at what you submitted. Continue reading