So after giving things a try with Macaw I can say that I am very impressed but also a bit disappointed at the same time. The Good Being able to work visually is how I often start brand new projects (commonly in photoshop) and being able to take that work and have it already be partially …
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Macaw
Friends don’t let friends use front page. Or at least that is the saying some of my fellow designers would always toss around. The primary issue being the quality of code that front page (and even dreamweaver) would produce when using its WYSIWYG editor was awful. But those early editors did hit upon something that …
Controlling the Medium
As a musician I will often find myself obsessing about the details in the music I listen to. Everything from the types of music to what I am playing them through and at what volume. Consuming any art form is an act in of itself that can alter the perception of the work. Looking at a …
Designing for Emotion
Design is not an extra, it is not a project add on, it isn’t window dressing. It isn’t unneeded page weight or erroneous server requests. Design is a part of every aspect of a project. Design is how a product works, how it looks, how it is interpreted, and how it is cherished. It is …
Keeping it Modular
Whether you are building your own blog or a site for a client it is important to remember to build things in a way that allow you to reuse your code. This is otherwise known as the DRY principle (Don’t Repeat Yourself). While this principle has been common practice in the world of backend development, …
Mobile UX: Websites and Native Apps
A few years ago, as responsive design began to gain traction, I began hearing a somewhat divisive conversation that seemed to fall along whether mobile websites should mimic the same UI paradigms that were already popular in native mobile applications. I believe part of the debate was muddled by the types of content that sometimes …