Tag Archives: designer

I’m a crap designer!

Sometimes I stare at the work I have created and think ‘well that’s crap’; then other times I look at work that I thought was good a day or week ago and think ‘why did I think that was good?’. Now this might seem quite self-deprecating but without this I just don’t think I would [...]

Are standard blue hyperlinks conducive in modern web design?

Recently while proofing a design I had created a colleague of mine asked “Why do we not use blue links?”, to which my immediate response should have been ‘Why should we use blue links!”. However, to avoid an argument I let him speak about how users were used to the standard blue links shown on [...]

Spoon run in to trouble with Microsoft

Recently I posted on my discovery of spoon.net, a service which allowed you to virtually run web browsers on a PC with no install for free. This service seemed to answer the cross-browser testing problem for all PC based web designers; until I re-visited the site again in the last few weeks and discovered Microsoft [...]