I was meeting with my peeps from Stylah last week and we were discussing iphone app opportunities, and more specifically the design process leading to project acceptance. I brought up that paper prototyping is a fast, economical way to show…
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Fishpond in 2010 had a great catalog site, but not as good a customer site, so I rearranged some content but mainly added primary content to show top titles. I wanted to get the user/customer involved by showing them popular…
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Ponoko is: A Personal Factory, where you can buy, sell & create custom products. Use the world’s easiest making system to create real products, on a short run for optimal cost. I love Ponoko’s concept. So when I went through…
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Current Website WorkFlowMax was just acquired by Xero, I’m so happy for them, and the partnership I’m sure will yield award winning design integration. A while back I was asked to do a design study on the WorkFlowMax web app…
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Wine-Searcher is an internationally known wine database website based in New Zealand. Their established user base expected the best information worldwide around where to get wine and for what price. The brief: expand its audience without disturbing its existing users.…
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Xero aquires WorkFlowMax and more funding from investors Wellington, New Zealand-based Xero has just acquired Auckland-based WorkFlowMax. This is an amazing development, but not unexpected. I see this acquisition as a sign New Zealand is starting to join forces, breaking…
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There are many distractions in web and application development and lots of discussion going on about how to manage these. But what is your application’s primary function? I keep coming back to the car example in my mind. In a…
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Just finished SiroccoSurf.co.nz and it was a very satisfying project because it involved redesigning the old design and adding Store functionality with WP e-Commerce plugin (The store will go live first quarter 2012). Biggie Smithers designs custom surf and kiteboards…
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We web designers sometimes think we’re missing out on big work and big money if we take lots of small jobs. But if we systemise our work, we can take these small projects on, add a little bit of bespoke…
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3 Plugins to help kill your WordPress comment spam
You run a WordPress blog, your digital marketing is going well and people are starting to find you, but, so are the wrong ones – the spammers. Fear not, there are four things you can do immediately to stem the…Read more ›
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