My workflow for designing websites in the browser

Posted on Wed, 29th May, 2013.
Under Coding, Design, Opinion, Personal, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial, Workflow.

“Kill Photoshop!” the people say. There are many reasons to stop using Photoshop and start working the browser instead—a few great ones listed in this webdesign tuts+ article, tips for designing in the browser (Especially the ‘Work Gets Repeated’ and ‘Can be time consuming’ part).

However, many designers don’t know how to start designing websites in the browser—It’s a problem of habit. They’re simply used to Photoshop.

I fortunately started when Photoshop’s influence was less, than say, 5 years ago. Due to that, it was easy and quick for me to make the jump to designing in the browser. Here, I’ll detail how I design sites, for myself and my clients.

4 must-subscribe newsletters for a web designer

Posted on Mon, 4th Mar, 2013.
Under Coding, Design, Top # list.

To stay at the top of our fields, us web designers have to be up-to-date to everything that’s going on in the design and development world. One easy way to keep informed about everything is to subscribe to newsletters, whether weekly or daily, and get articles straight to your email.

Sidebar

Sidebar is definitely one of the top newsletters in the design world. Curated by Sacha Greif, it delivers 5 best links of the day, straight to your email.

My workflow when working with clients

Posted on Fri, 1st Mar, 2013.
Under Challenges, Clients, Workflow.

As most of you must know, I offer web design and development services, and as a package, logo design. In this post, I’ll be outlining how I manage clients, how I communicate, at what milestones I charge, and what tools I use.

(Note: This post is written considering you have talked to the client, and you have arrived on a rough plan of action and pricing)

Making the invoice and collecting upfront.

This is something that is really important. You definitely have to collect upfronts from the client! I usually take around 40% upfront, but for smaller projects, I charge around 60%. If your client refuses paying upfront, he probably isn’t trust-able—proceed with caution. Try and negotiate a smaller amount for upfront.

Chrome: The design side to software

Posted on Thu, 29th Nov, 2012.
Under Design, Design Review, Design Theory, Opinion, User Experience.

Chrome, the web browser we all love.

But aside from its marketing strategy, what’s making us keep on using it? Why not go to the competition, like Firefox and Opera? Why are the (apparent) Open Source lovers ditching FX, just for Chrome?

I admit, large selection of apps and themes are sure a plus, but they are found on FX too.

I like to personally believe that one of the main reasons that the huge amount of people that use Chrome are using it because of it’s incredible design, and wonderful UI.

In this post, I will be talking about Chrome’s design, focusing on it’s UI and UX, and will be talking about the level of detail.