Interactive Designer
Sometimes it’s difficult to explain to people what I do for a living. I’ve never been comfortable telling people that I’m just a graphic designer or a just a web designer because I always do so much more than just those things.
Free vs. Paid iPhone Apps
Over the past year I’ve been developing an iPhone app called Box It Up. It was built upon a framework called Titanium Appcelerator, and was initially created as a learning experience for mobile development.
Sales over the past year have been sparse. Priced at only $0.99, I averaged around four sales a day, with peak sales between 20 and 30 during the spring cleaning/moving season. In the year since I started, I’ve only made around $300 total. With development of the app stalled since March and sales declining, I decided this past week to try something: take Box It Up off of the app store and then release it as a free app.
Why You Shouldn’t Use Facebook as Your Website
Recently I heard about a hot new restaurant in Calgary. I wanted to learn more about it, read their menu, and possibly book a reservation online. Typing the restaurant name into Google I was bombarded with their Google Places, Yelp and Urban Spoon profiles, but couldn’t seem to find an actual website anywhere. I kept searching, and a few pages into the search I finally found their website. I clicked on the link excited to find what I was looking for. And then the unfortunate happened: I was redirected to a Facebook page.
The New Eight Six Media
If you’ve been to my website before, you may have noticed that I changed the design of it this week. As I begin to do more freelance work this year, I’ve wanted to completely rebrand myself. The new website is just the beginning of it. Included in the new website is a new logo design, that uses the awesome Accord Alternate font. I’ve also got a set of new business cards on the way that take advantage of a Spot UV coating and match the style of the website.
Why I Don’t Design in Illustrator
I read an article this week on Smashing Magazine about designing websites in Adobe Illustrator. The article is full of interesting tips and tricks for using Illustrator, but the general of idea of using it to create full website designs bothers me. While I’m not here to preach about using only Photoshop to do design work, I do want to point out why I object to using only Illustrator.
Weekly Roundup: January 7, 2011
The Failures of the Mac App Store UI
TIm Morgan outlines some compelling arguments about the pitfalls of the UI design of the new Mac App store and Twitter for Mac app.
3D Text
A cool technique for creating 3D text using pure CSS3.
The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People
It can be a struggle to be creative sometimes, and this article does a good job of identifying a couple of habits that help stimulate many creative people.
Shoptoit.ca for iPhone
A company I used to work for – Shoptoit.ca – launched their iPhone app in Canada over the holidays. If you live in Canada and like shopping be sure to check it out, it’s a great resource for finding prices on the go.
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