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“What we have is bricks. I don’t see a house, yet.” Don Draper I started ‘formal’ art and design training when I was about fourteen years old. I took Art as an option at secondary school and progressed to an … Continue reading
When I first worked in a design studio, I was taught that the first thing to do, as part of the project discovery, was to ‘interrogate the brief’, or ‘rewrite the brief’. This normally involved getting a brief from a … Continue reading
Last year, Chris Shiflett — together with a few other people – decided to get behind blogging again and post a series of posts called ‘Ideas of March’. What followed, throughout March, was some exciting and insightful reading. Having an initiative … Continue reading
Last Friday, Mark Boulton Design announced something we’ve been working on for the past six months or so: Gridset. A tool for creating advanced grid systems on the web. For a long while now, we’ve been designing tools and frameworks … Continue reading
Last week at the Responsive Summit, we discussed tools a fair bit. Especially in relation to workflow and how it effects a designer and their output. Since 1997, I’ve been working almost exclusively on the web. Throughout all of that … Continue reading
These are my notes, conclusions and thoughts from yesterday’s Responsive Summit in London. Last week, Alex Morris – UX Director at Mark Boulton Design, Chris Armstrong, Designer from Front, the company responsible for Typecast, and Josh Brewer, Principle Designer at Twitter, … Continue reading
I’m not usually one for talking about how criticism affects people: either on Twitter, at conferences or elsewhere. I am of course talking about the community’s reaction to a few of us getting together in London yesterday for the Responsive … Continue reading
Since I saw Ethan’s talk in An Event Apart in Seattle 2010, I’ve been thinking a lot about Responsive Design. Not just the layout techniques Ethan gave name to and wrote the book on: fluid grids, plus media queries and … Continue reading
We have to start somewhere. Something has to come first. In 2001, I started working for the BBC in Cardiff. I worked alongside journalists and project managers for four years on all manner of web sites and applications; ranging from … Continue reading
Some proof that I’m actually working on the book. Here’s a little screeny of one of the example projects in Chapter 5. It’s a compound grid: 6 column and 4 column combined, but on this layout using the asymmetric 5 … Continue reading
In December last year, Five Simple Steps was very proud to publish Jon Hicks’ new book: The Icon Handbook. A practical, beautiful book that’s available in both pre-order paperback and digital editions. No surprise that it’s a beautiful book. Jon … Continue reading
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