05/02/2012

Designing for e-commerce #1: what do you need to know to begin

I guess we all remember the days when things were simple. You would work only on what you were best at in the design and what would give you the joy of working. And ignore anything else.

Nowadays the situation seems more complicated. The world and a workplace demand more and more and even the design profession hasn’t escaped that.

I recently met with a good number of my design friends and clients and most of them mentioned a slight discomfort they feel with the more demanding web work they are being asked to quote for. It’s one thing to price a simple website but it’s something completely different to imagine how much work is involved in a bigger web project like e-commerce for example.

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An introduction to web usability for graphic designers

I just published a guest post on Tara Roskell’s Graphic Design Blog,

Tara is doing a great job writing of different aspects of design and design business and hopefully my post will help her readers as well.

You can read the post at http://www.graphicdesignblog.co.uk/an-introduction-to-web-usability-for-graphic-designers/