I'm currently a Sr. Web Designer at Cardinal Path in Phoenix, Arizona with over 10 years of experience in design and illustration.
Design and user experience is a passion of mine – especially when designing for the web, handheld devices, and the measurement of user behaviors & the affects it has on design.
I maintain a weekly creative blog community of 500+ artists called Art Jumble since August 2006.
Here are some skill areas and levels of which I work in:
Web Design
Hell yeah, love it - 100%
Illustration
Love doing it - 100%
Front-end Dev
User interactions, yes - 100%
For more info contact me or just say hi, I like hi's…
My Design Rules
These rules are for designers and developers to read and I stand by them. Please note that these are my own words and they don't reflect the voices of the company that I work for. Over time these might change and/or be replaced with others, so enjoy!
- Fuck IE! Don't design/dev for it anymore, not even for the latest version. If you add all the hours of frustration every design/dev person has had with IE that would literally equal YEARS of frustration and heartache. Microsoft owes us our time back. ☻
- There's a lot of design philosophy buzz-words out there on the types of design that exists (unintended design, self-design, genius design, activity-focused design, user-focused design, etc.). Basically their all shit individually. Why don't we design based on the knowledge of all of these philosophies? That's what I try to do.
- Beauty is, always, and forever will be, in the details. Pixel perfect details.
- Design for the latest and greatest browser technology (graceful degradation) based on what your visitors use and work your way backwards for older browsers.
- Yes this site is responsive. If you make a responsive website, test throughout your development. Starting with the smallest resolution possible.
- Don't get carried away with the use of color. A nice mix of neutral colors goes a long way and accentuates your main color choices.
- Any text that's supposed to be read should never be below 18px.
- Contrast — recognize the important aspects of a page and then make those page elements noticeable through boldness/contrast. Some examples are to invert your call-to-actions buttons, add a background to your form fields, etc.
- Don't let Photoshop restrict your visuals, you can actually be more specific/detailed in CSS3.
- All designers should possess more swagger than Mick Jagger. Meaning that, if you don't have style or a certain flow to you, your probably not a designer.
▾ Read all design rules
Available for design work, contact me!
