Lately in the morning when I wake up, I've been checking Twitteriffic on my iPhone and reading everyone's updates. In the midst of a slew of personal anecdotes and random updates, there are a few people who consistently post interesting content that inspires me to get out of bed and get some work do…
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My Lucky 7 List of Design People to Follow on Twitter
Posted September 26, 2009
Stop Complaining and Start Educating Potential Clients
Posted September 13, 2009
Lately I've been reading a lot of blog posts, rants, and articles demonizing the effects of crowdsourcing, cheap labor, spec work, and other such evils in the world; frankly, it's starting to get on my nerves a little bit. While I'm not promoting any of these practices, I'd like to shed a little lig…
Art vs. Design, Passion vs. Cash
Posted March 20, 2009
Over the last 3 months I've been struggling in my mind with the balance between doing what I love, and making a living as a responsible adult.
The 9 to 5 Dilemma
Back in January of 08 I joined up with the Viviti team as the only UI designer on board - it was fresh, exciting, and I told myself I'd gi…
Chubby CMS Framework, Mark Boulton & Other Friday News
Posted February 6, 2009
My eyes feel grimy, I have a coffee buzz, and my feet keep tapping to the unrelenting drum beat in my head as this week comes to a close. My task list feels monumental even though I've been steadily chipping at it all week (I'm imagining it looks a bit like the post-nuclear version of the Washington…
Productivity & Inspiration to Kickoff 2009
Posted January 9, 2009
While weather in Vancouver flips flops between winter and spring and the stock markets continue to flip flop daily, we've just flipped over to 2009, and I'm a week late in welcoming you all to the new year. So, without further commentary...
I stumbled across a beautiful re-brand by Moving Brands of
3G Nanaimo, Outpost for Basecamp, and My iPhone
Posted November 26, 2008
I rolled over this morning at 7:15 AM to the sound of the alarm on my iPhone, lazily reached around for a minute to shut it off, and then groggily checked my email as I always do. To my delight, in the upper left corner, next to three glorious bars of service, was a brand spanking new 3G icon in pla…
Some Web Design Inspiration
Posted September 18, 2008
I found a great blog site today on CSS Mania (a nice resource for inspiration) by author Jason Bradbury and thought I'd share it.
Jason Bradbury
I love how you can change the color of some of the items, and how the background changes on reload. The PNG transparencies up top work beautifully, though …
Stop Kicking & Ride The (Not Quite) Dead Advertising Horse
Posted September 10, 2008
Maybe it's the books and blogs I read, or maybe it's the rise in popularity of the disaffected emo rocker in mainstream media, but it seems lately that everyone is declaring the death of advertising. Advertising is dead, the consumer reigns supreme, we get what we want and ignore advertising complet…
Awesome UI Design Resource - Pattern Tap
Posted August 15, 2008
I don't usually just write about a web site without getting into bits of its UI design, but I came across Pattern Tap while cruising around for inspiration on FeedMyApp today and immediately fell in love with it. It's too great an idea not to share and I wish I had built it first.
Basically, the co…
Firefox 3 Download Day Drama
Posted June 17, 2008
As today is officially Firefox 3 Download Day, I eagerly went to the Get Firefox page expecting to add my triumphant download to the mass of other fans, and was disappointed to see that the site was down.
I've been checking throughout the day, and it's been on and off... Once, about at about 12:15 p…
The Web 3.0 Devolution
Posted May 30, 2008
Today on LinkedIn, I discovered a question titled "How do you define Web 3.0?" and my stomach turned. Are we really going there? Has mankind fallen so far as to need a consumer friendly buzz word for everything we do?
I'm guilty of mocking buzz word heavy web sites and blogs for using the words Web …
Caffeine PHP Coming Soon
Posted May 6, 2008
While working with my good friend Gavin over recent months, I've heard him condemning certain aspects and limitations of popular php frameworks. This has invariably led us to pioneer a solution to these limitations, in the form of a lite weight, PHP5 framework we're calling Caffeine PHP, with some d…
Easy Blogging With Viviti.com
Posted April 1, 2008
Today I launched the blog you're reading thanks to Viviti.com - an easy to use (beta) content management system that's made primarily for people with no design or programming experience. Fortunately, it allows designers to upload their own designs as well, so that's what I did.
Although the documenta…
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Shawn is a 28 year old freelance graphic and web application designer in Vancouver, BC, Canada. His other project is called QuoteRobot and it's coming soon!
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Tweets
- sortfolio makes a terrific, easy to browse, inspiration gallery in addition to it's intended purpose - http://sortfolio.com/
- simpleyoutube: a php class for getting youtube video details from a URL - http://tinyurl.com/yer24y2
- check out my free web design proposal template if you haven't already - http://tinyurl.com/mkl9gb
Friends
Here are some links to people I work with and respect:
Blossom Effect (my wife)
Geek For Brains
Aunfin
Niklas Industries
Hail To The Heat
Null Creations
Overmind Productions
Nathan Crause
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