The past week has had it’s share of stresses for me. However, my mantra has always been that the most beautiful things in life are so - with or without us. That said, it is up to me to see and notice those things that are so easily overlooked or taken for granted. As my family headed out the door to go out and grab some dinner, I could not help but notice that the sky seemed to be on fire just over the hill from my front deck.
This week Andrew Mager showed me “CSS For Lunch” – a new site that he had come up with. The goal is to get a group of talented tech producers to author various posts with the tips and tricks that they use on a daily basis. These can be quick rants that offer up an interesting method, yet can be both written or read on ones lunch break.
So lately it seems that I have been coming up with designs on Friday nights for friends I work with at CNET. This proves to be a good opportunity to be really loose with my design ideas, try new color pallets as well as to give me more sandbox projects to code with CSS and semantic markup. I enjoy being prolific as it helps make me faster both with my visual designs as well as with my recent renaissance with code. Tonight, my project was to come up with a brand for MobKool – a blog from friend John Potter.
I am an avid student and evangelist of user-centered design principles - I have created or overhauled some of the world's largest online Business & Technology properties. My focus has always been on building functional design systems that creatively solve business problems. Solutions that convey brand & messaging, but more importantly, are intuitive to maximize the possibilities of an interactive medium. Any thoughts, opinions, or ideas expressed on this website are solely my own and not necessarily representative of those of my employer, CBS Interactive.
