UX, Usability Testing, & Website Coaching
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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!When I first dipped my toes into the pool of web design in early 1996, design tools sure were different. Designing in Photoshop 3 and 4 was tedious! Type rasterized immediately. Drop shadows and bevels were miraculous feats of lighting [...]
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Senior User Experience (UX) Designer
At Normal Modes, we believe good business is a good user experience. We help businesses increase revenues and reduce costs by creating user-centered websites that are straightforward and easy-to use for customers. We specialize in high-profile, data-driven websites.
Normal Modes is a small startup, but we’re profitable and growing quickly. Our clients [...]
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Playboy Magazine’s “What Sort Of Man Reads Playboy” advertisements from the 1960s and 1970s illustrate continuities and discontinuities between pre-internet and contemporary copywriting and design.
Before the Internet, as now, images accomplished most of the work. Playboy’s advertisements relied on a striking photograph to attract and keep the attention of the reader. On the other hand, [...]
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Last week I had the honor to be a speaker at the Mom 2.0 Summit. The conference was fabulous – great ladies who were kind and supportive of each other, nice panels where everyone shared experiences, and the hotel – Wow! Four Seasons all the way!
Here’s the slideshow we used to get the [...]
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Ran across a few great design patterns resources this week that I want to share with everyone. They give me something to refer to when I’m doing wireframes, and sometimes I share them with clients when we’re trying to determine how to display content that’ll be most pleasing to their audience. Please enjoy!
From the “Designing [...]
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Let’s say you’re new to Houston and you need a place to live. You’re in Texas, so you don’t want any old house – you want a ranch. A palatial homestead that’s guaranteed to be the envy of all your friends and family.
A plot of land secured, you head on over [...]
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