I have been featured in Smashing Magazine’s latest article “How To Create A Great Web Design CV and Résumé” by Kat Neville of safetygoat.

Kat devised a CV design challenge/ competition in which ten Web designers had to design the same résumé in only a few hours. Each designer had to translate a fictional character, Steve Stevenson’s work experience, education and interests into their own unique style. A summary of good tips for Web designer résumés is featured at the end of the article. If you’re interested in taking the challenge yourself, visit misterstevenson.com for all the rules each of the designers followed and the chance to add your own entry.

If you are interested in learning about my design methodology, please continue reading below.

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My contribution for Ada Lovelace Day is dedicated to Susan Kare.

Susan Kare, the “Mother of GUI”:

Have you ever used a Macintosh computer? If yes, do you know the key on the bottom left of your keyboard that says  “command”. Can you picture the cloverleaf-like “infinite loop” symbol beside that? Or how about the the “Happy Mac” icon image to the left? Kane designed them.

OK, so you’re not a Mac user. Do you know the fonts Geneva, Chicago and Monaco? Kane created them.

How about Facebook - have you ever received or given a “gift” on Facebook? You know the pixel images that you can send to a friend? Kare designed many of the icons for the Facebook Gifts application.

So, you don’t use a Mac, you haven’t heard of those fonts and you’ve never been on Facebook?! Have you played Solitaire? Kare designed the graphics for the computer game. Read the rest of this entry »

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Today, 24^th March 2009 is the first Ada Lovelace Day. Bloggers around the globe are invited to write a blog post about  a women in technology that they admire. The aim is to highlight female role models and encourage women to become leaders in technology.

What does “in technology” mean?

It’s up to you how you interpret the phrase “in technology”. We’re not just interested in hardcore ninja programmers, but any woman who creates, invents, or uses any technology in an innovative way. Feel free to interpret it as widely as you like.

- From the website FindingAda.com

Who is Ada Lovelace?

Ada Lovelace is today appreciated as the first computer programmer. Read the rest of this entry »

While checking my personal e-mail on Yahoo! today (another) flash overlay advertisement disrupted the simple task that I was trying to do. Sure, this happens now and again but what was different about this one? Well, when I clicked on the ‘close’ button it opened the link to the product that was being advertised in another tab. So, I closed that and clicked ‘close’ again, thinking that I must have made an error and have missed clicking the ‘close’ button the first time (I was clicking ‘close’ quickly in frustration afterall). But no, it did exactly the same thing. While I’m not a fan of pop-up flash advertisements that cause me to be distracted from what I was originally doing, when I click close, I expect the ad to actually close! Read the rest of this entry »

I have been meaning for a while to write a regular feature about logo design. These posts are intended to provide a place for designers to come to for inspiration and to find out more about a variety of different logos. Please feel free to discuss these logo designs. And by all means, please recommend or suggest a logo for future posts.

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The first logo that I have chosen to feature in this series of posts is “I Love New York” by Milton Glaser. What better logo to begin with!

Logo: I Love New York
Designer: Milton Glaser
Typeface used: American Typewriter
Colors used: Black and red
Interesting fact #1: Glaser did the work for this logo pro-bono
Interesting fact #2: The logo is said to be the most frequently imitated design in logo history
Distinguishing features: The logo includes a rebus. Glaser used a red heart symbol (♥) to represent the word “love” in his design. The use of a heart as a symbol for the word “love” has been widely imitated since then. All of the other elements that make up this logo - black capital letters in the “American Typewriter” font - make the red heart symbol stand out even more prominently.

Glaser created the design in 1977 based on Wells Rich Greene’s advertising campaign “I Love New York”, which was developed to promote tourism in New York State. Read the rest of this entry »