Peyton Crump on Web Design
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New Viget Site and Blog Strategy Paying Off
The Viget team launched our new corporate site and blogging strategy nearly two weeks ago now, and the hard work seems to be paying off. The community is engaging us, stats are showing increased and sustained traffic, and the design is getting good reactions from other designers, colleagues, and clients. The gist is that we decided to harness our creativity a bit more, demonstrate stronger expertise, and expand our blog presence/focus by creating individual blogs for our strategy, marketing, design, and development labs. As always, it’s hard to find/make the time to work internally on projects (even when it’s as important as your corporate site), but it sure feels rewarding and pays off when you do. Here are a few screen shots:
20 Web Design Books for 2008
I poured through some of the Amazon listings for 2008 pre-orders to see what web design books might be coming our way, and here’s a list of some to keep an eye out for. They range from beginner to advanced, theory to software, Nielsen to Budd.
Making the Cosmos Accessible
Here’s a perfect example of how accessibility matters and should demand our attention when designing and presenting information. “Images from NASA telescopes are jewels of the space program, marvelous to behold. But how do you behold them when you can’t see?”
Creative Over-Thinking
I posted some thoughts recently on the Viget blog about creativity versus constraint and having improper measures for successful web designs. The article offers some ideas for staying properly oriented and suggests useful ways to prevent over-thinking.