Near the end of the summer in 2013, I and a group of other web developers and marketing personnel started to look forward to the West Virginia School of Public Health’s 2014 website redesign. The School of Public Health’s last … Read More
Writing
Skeuomorphism
In the book Simulacra and Simulation Jean Baudrillad concludes that “everywhere the Hyperrealism of simulation is translated by the hallucinatory resemblance of the real to itself,” ergo skeuomorphism is design simulation appearing like reality.
Skeuomorphism refers to both a digital … Read More
Tabletop Typographic Source Book
I diagnosed and identified the following typefaces in a Tabletop Typographic Source Book:
- Safran Medium Italic
- Sukothai Std Regular
- Little Brown Frog SG Regular
- Zapf Humanist 601 Ultra
- Naked Power Black Regular
- ARIAL MT
- Serofina Regular
- Helvetica Pro Bold
Takeaways from #WebDesignDay
I recently attended Web Design Day in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the following are some links and notes that I took from the presentations:
- Aaron Draplin (http://www.draplin.com/)
As a web designer say yes more than you say no, but
Videogame UI/UX Model
User experience and user interface design, or UX
and UI for short, may be difficult for some designers
with experience only in static design (print advertising,
magazine layout, and pagination design); however, by
examining other fields that successfully employ UX/UI… Read More