SXSW was a truly amazing experience. The biggest event I’ve ever been to. With a huge exhibition centre and a couple of streets closed off in Austin for the festivities it would be hard not to be.
If you’re thinking of attending next year, here’s an overview.
SXSW continues to be a great experience. The talks are good but the best and most valuable part of the whole experience is meeting and talking to people. People I admire as a designer, people I admire as an entrepreneur, potential clients, existing clients and just people that are working on damn good stuff. It’s an inspiration.
Day 3 involved walking around the exhibition hall. Lots of great apps, amazing companies and awesome freebies.
Day 2 and things are getting a lot busier, which means the talks are crammed but there’s more people to meet.
First day over at SXSW and a new day is upon us. Here’s a quick recap of the first day.
Tomorrow I have the pleasure of flying out to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest (SXSW).
Very excited. Love it in the States and have wanted to go to SXSW for years now. Austin looks like a great place.
What excited me about Logo Design Love was that it was written by fellow Northern Irish man David Airey.
David, responsible for the popular Logo Design Love blog as well as his own personal blog, is a brand identity designer who has worked with top brands globally.
You’ve done your research, sketched out the wireframes, designed a stunning mockup and now its time to markup. Where do you start?
Having your own reusable framework is a great way to save time and provide a basis for your next website.
Your own reusable framework is by no means perfect for every project that you work on but it is a great starting point and it can evolve over time.
A quick blog post this week as I’ve been working on getting a new portfolio/blog on the go. This was one of my goals for the year and shouldn’t have been too hard since I started working on it back before Christmas, but it did take a bit longer than expected.
When a user visits your website, you have 5 seconds to grab their attention. Okay, maybe that’s not always true but none the less you want to make sure there’s a banana (banana being the key element you want your users to look at) to grab their attention.
You also want to make sure that visually your website has a hierarchy and is broken down in order of ‘importance’. Call to actions, H1s and H2s will fall under the more important elements, then H3s, H4s and links, then paragraph text and other images towards the bottom of the scale.
A user should be able to look at a page and instantly recognise this hierarchy. Now here’s a useful way to check if your hierarchy is as clear as you hope it is.