Tag: web design

  • Norman doors and designing for humans

    Here’s one of my favourite comics from The Far Side. This comic’s clever because even the most “gifted” of us know what it feels like to be humiliated by a simple door. Doors offer fascinating examples of interaction design. Most doors go completely unnoticed, precisely because of their good design. Over hundreds of years of…

  • Humble Design

    Do designers really know best? A common trap for developers and designers is to build idealistic software and websites while disregarding feedback and input from everyone else. Because no one’s as enlightened as you, right? We sing Steve Jobs’ mantra, “people don’t know what they want until you show it to them,” convinced that our…

  • City Unite

    Check out the new City Unite website! A movement based in the metro Denver area, City Unite focuses on uniting the body of Christ in each city to transform their city. Because of the geographical nature of their mission, the website centers around the map on the homepage as a central image and navigation point.…

  • Do Beautiful Things Work Better?

    I still remember the first time I went snowboarding in my (then) new snowboard pants. My first real boarding pants, they felt good, looked great, and changed my world. As I became one with the mountain that day, I honestly felt like I became a better snowboarder. But can new pants really make you a…

  • Average Joe Computer Services

    Check my newest website design, for Average Joe Computer Services! Average Joe is a new computer support company serving southeastern Manitoba. Chris (no, his name’s not Joe:) was really great to work with in developing his site. He came to us with a strong concept based around his JOE “characters” which represented his various computer…

  • Design Project: Ambient Student Ministries

    Last weekend I had the chance to create a disc golf design (the design above) for a good friend’s ministry in Washington. They’re just about finished building their own disc golf course and will be getting custom discs made. Petey and I and some other friends had many a disc golf game back in the…