I was randomly browsing the archives of Trent Walton’s blog and came across this hilarious and brilliant post comparing characters from the Big Lebowski (my all-time favorite flick) with the characters we encounter every day as web designers.
Determine who the point person really is and you’ll be able to handle all the extra ins, outs and what-have-yous.
Check out this useful checklist for web designers/developers to test their work as they prepare to launch a website. It includes a great list of QA questions, plus you can easily add your own.
It’s great for your own internal testing, but you can also have the “report” sent to your client or co-worker’s email address. Clever idea, great design, great execution.
A must-click for those who want to be truly inspired by the design possibilities of today’s and tomorrow’s web: Lost World’s Fairs is an impressive showcase of the design (particularly typographic) possibilities in Internet Explorer 9.
Internet Explorer 9 now supports WOFF, and the Friends of Mighty have joined forces to explore typographic possibilities on the web.
Friends of Mighty would be the all-star lineup of designers: Jason Santa Maria, Frank Chimero, Naz Hamid, Trent Walton, and Dave Rupert.
Read each of their blog posts (linked above) to learn more about their roles and delivered awesomeness found in this one-of-a-kind project.
This link has been making the rounds on the twitterwebs and it’s truly worth your five minutes to immerse yourself in what I think is one of the coolest displays of cutting edge web design technology. It’s best viewed on Google Chrome.
Check it out: The Wilderness Downtown
“I am a freelance web designer.”
“We are a small web design shop.”
For many self-employed professionals, particularly in the field of web design, these two phrases can often be interchangeable depending on who you’re speaking to and what you’re speaking about. I often become hesitant about which angle I should use when talking to clients. Why the confusion about what it is I (we?) do?
It’s fair to say that my business can be defined as a Freelance/Agency hybrid model. Read More
Designing Obama – Digital Edition.
I’ve been meaning to pick up this book in hardcover for a while. But now that it’s available as a free PDF and (not free) iPad App, I’ll have lots to chew on until I do 
Also check out this podcast interview with Scott Thomas, the design director for the Obama campaign.
