Articles posted in ‘Design’
March “Mad Libs” Madness!!!
Posted on March 1st, 2010 in Design, Hints & Tips
So if you aren’t familiar with Mad Libs yet you better learn about it very quickly. Basically it’s a very identifiable style for filling in blanks in a sentence written context. ( I love _______. )
So what’s all the fuss?
Well in case you missed it last week, Luke Wroblewski put out an instantly viral article, “Mad Libs” Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%, that overlays a brief study on the conversion success of presenting online forms in a Mad Libs format. Vast.com compared it’s success rates of the forms below and found a much larger increase in user conversions when using the Mad Libs styled form.
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Tips to Avoid Project Completion Syndrome
Posted on January 20th, 2010 in Design, Hints & Tips
Hooray for us! We have just completed a project and the weight is finally off of our shoulders. Weeks or months of hard work finally put to wraps. We can finally take a deep breathe knowing that our job is done and give ourselves a pat on the back.
But, before you tell all of your buddies you can go out for beers tonight you might want to take a peak at the schedule ahead!
So don’t hit the power button just yet! Before you turn off your computer or laptop there are some things you might want to check and prepare first:
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We All Started Designing Somewhere, What’s Your Story?
Posted on January 15th, 2010 in Design
Today I started a little post series on my personal blog called “Flashback Friday“. While reminiscing of the old times I had with friends and family I immediately was driven to think about how I got started in the design world.
What sparked the interest? What made me decide, hmm I think I want to design for a living? I’ve seen some interesting posts around the web about designer’s first projects. Do you remember how and why you got into design?
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48 Hours & the Creation of PeepNote
Posted on August 27th, 2009 in Design, Projects
If you have been following me on twitter over the past week you have probably seen about 100 tweets about the Rails Rumble competition. After a grueling 48 hours of competition this past weekend we(Agile Nomads) were able to design, develop & deploy our rails rumble entry PeepNote!
The idea behind PeepNote is pretty straight forward. Its a simple tool to manage your twitter ‘peeps’ with notes & memos. You are able to compile reasons for following & unfollowing your peeps as well as add tags to group and filter your peeps in any customized list.
Being the designer for this amazing tool brought an exciting challenge. Not only did the design require a functional and user friendly interface but it had to establish itself as being inviting and welcoming for a possible large mass audience all in under 48 hours! Below is a quick bite of what we had to chew during the 48 hours competition.
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Counting Down to Rails Rumble 09
Posted on August 16th, 2009 in Design, Projects
Next weekend I will be taking part in this year’s Rails Rumble 09! If you’re not familiar with Rails Rumble, it’s a competition for Ruby on Rails developing teams to design, develop, and deploy the best web app in 48 hours!
This year I have the opportunity to team up with Brian Burridge & Steve Pothoven, whom have been amazing people to work with so far. Two weeks ago I was approached by Brian via twitter with his idea and an invitation to be his designer and front-end developer for the contest. After entering last year’s Rails Rumble I immediately knew I wanted to take the opportunity to compete again.
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