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Blog: Written Statements

Artist Statement/Design Philosophy: As a very impatient person, my artistic history mostly consists of what I can create in one sitting. I tend to try to freehand my work, not the most well advised habit but one that I haven’t yet broken. Often I’ll take to drawing...

Blog Draft: Written Statements

Artist Statement/Design Philosophy: As a very impatient person, my artistic history mostly consists of what I can create in one sitting. I tend to try to freehand my work, not the most well advised habit but one that I haven’t yet broken. Often I’ll take to drawing...

Lesson 4 Blog Post: One Page Design

One page websites are rather rare. As someone who’s not usually much of a fan of them, I can see why. The lack of room to convey information often results in websites that are either cluttered or uncomfortably empty. https://www.milanowineweek.com/ Take this...

Lesson 4 Blog Draft:

One page websites are rather rare. As someone who’s not usually much of a fan of them, I can see why. The lack of room to convey information often results in websites that are either cluttered or uncomfortably empty. https://www.milanowineweek.com/ Take this...

Lesson 3 Blog Post: CSS Archaeology

What Is CSS? CSS is an abbreviation that stands for Cascading Style Sheets. What does that mean? Fortunately, that’s answered easily. They’re simply sheets of cascading code used to style a website. By styling a website, I’m referring to things like...

Lesson 3 Blog Draft: CSS Archaeology

What Is CSS? CSS is an abbreviation that stands for Cascading Style Sheets. What does that mean? Fortunately, that’s answered easily. They’re simply sheets of cascading code used to style a website. By styling a website, I’m referring to things like...

Lesson 2 Blog Post: Grid Examples

What is Grid-Based Design? Grid-based design is, as you might have guessed, designing content that can be visually fit into a grid. Most forms of user interface use grid-based design. Even handwritten materials generally use grid-based design, whether you’re...

Lesson 2 Blog Draft: Grid Examples

So, examples of grid-based design. Finding well designed grid-based design is simple enough, because grid-based design is what most websites consist of. Since it’s convenient, I’ll post our student dashboard as my example. The thought process here seems...

Lesson 1: Norman Blog Post (Completed)

Most of us don’t spend much time thinking about it, but poor design really is all around us. Norman starts off his book by explaining how he sometimes finds it difficult to figure out how to open doors. He admits it sounds silly, yet at the same time I think...

Lesson 1: Norman Blog Post Draft

It’s not something most of us spend much time thinking about, but poor design truly is all around us. Norman starts off his book by relating how he finds it difficult at times to figure out how to open doors. He himself points out how it sounds silly, yet at the...