By aprilholle | general observation, project management, self-reflection
I’ve been speaking to several colleagues lately within the web design community, and I’ve come to a harsh realization. I think that as a whole, our industry creates it’s own self-inflicted pressure with deadlines and customer relations. Granted, some customers can come into the relationship wanting the impossible, but often, with a little enlightenment, customers
Tags: client-relations, deadlines, project management, timelines, Web-Design
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By aprilholle | accessibility, general observation, links of the week, project management, things to do
Welcome to the first week of LINKS OF THE WEEK! I come across some great informative and humorous content online, and I want to share that.. with all of you. Enjoy! Wonderful cartoon explaining the communication struggle in development of applications. Happy Webbies is like Happy Bunny for web geeks. Check out the animated talking
Tags: account management, communication, design, development-time, external-links, gameing subculture, gaming, Happy-Webbies, happy_bunny, informative content, interesting links, links, online communities, online subculture, project management, project-process, screen readers, ux, viral marketing, web accessibility
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By aprilholle | new idea!, speaker reviews, things to do
Alright so at this point everyone has read the 2007 Web Design Survey at A List Apart. If you haven’t, you should… really. This is the first time we’ve ever had a survey for the web industry alone, and while it’s not necessarily scientific, it is a good sampling of the community, nearly 33,000 web
Tags: 2007-Web-Design-Survey, A-List-Apart, advertising_firm, bachelors_degree, backend-technology, blog-frequency, blogging, broad-technical-understanding, Cascading-Style-Sheets, college_graduate, design_advertising, design_survey, employee-moral, employment_possibilities, experience-design, female_web_designers, highest_paid, information_architects, new idea!, phoenix-web, Phoenix-web-events, project management, racial_rift, Refresh-Phoenix, salary_data, salary_range, self_employed, speaker reviews, things to do, usability_experts, ux-design, web-community, web-design-communities, web-design-community, web-design-groups, Web-Design-Survey, web-event, web-events, web-groups, web-industry, web-industry-salaries, web-salaries, web_industry, web_professionals, web_workers, working_environment
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By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, art forms, flash, new technologies, project management, technology reviews, things to do, user experience, viral marketing
I just wanted to make sure you were invited to all the awesome web and design happenings this week in Phoenix! Tues, Dec 4th – Refresh Phoenix Refresh Phoenix meets every first Tuesday of the month to discuss current internet issues and trends. The topics range from becoming your own boss to css frameworks to
Tags: AIGA, AIGA-Arizona, aiga-art-auction, art forms, art-auction, artistic-expression, artistic-work, backend-technology, barcamp, barcamp-Phoenix, broad-technical-understanding, browser-type, business, client-relations, code-camp, compliant-web-design, content-management-systems, creative-teams, creatives, cross-browser, cross-browser-compliance, css, css-stylesheets, design, design-trends, dynamic-content, dynamic-website, flash, front-end-development, good-website-design, Inza-Coffee, Inza-Coffee-House, monorchid, new technologies, phoenix, phoenix-lifestyle, phoenix-web, Phoenix-web-events, print-and-web, project management, Refresh-Phoenix, Search-Engine-Optimization, standards-compliance, technology, technology reviews, technology-conference, things to do, uat, university_of_advancing_technology, usability, usable-design, user experience, video-blogging, viral marketing, web-community, web-design-communities, web-design-community, web-design-groups, web-event, web-events, web-groups, web-site-design, web-standard-groups, web-workshops, XHTML, XHTML/CSS
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By aprilholle | project management
Communication and team work really have a huge impact on bottom line, completion dates and overall employee moral. When I say that, it seems like such a “duh” statement, but in day to day activities sometimes this simple statement can be so overlooked. I’ve worked in some very different team environments, and I feel that
Tags: being-open, building-great-teams, building-teams, communication, creative-teams, employee-moral, good-communication, great-employees, honesty, learning, project management, project-process, respect, team-building, team-goals, team-management, team-work
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By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, project management
Seth Godin recently posted his top 10 principles to create a great website. I really agreed with his perspective and wanted to elaborate with my own views
Tags: advertising & marketing, designing-websites, Flickr, good-website-design, Google, great-websites, MySpace, project management, Seth-Godin, web-site-design, website-design, websites
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By aprilholle | project management, speaker reviews, user experience
“I don’t want a Jack of All Trades, Master of None. I want “T-Shaped People”, People who have a broad understanding of the whole field (the horizontal part of the T) but then have deep understanding and perspective in one discipline in particular ( the vertical part of the T).”
Tags: Bill-Buxton, broad-technical-understanding, design, microsoft-research, project management, speaker reviews, t-shaped-people, usability, usable-design, user experience, user-friendly, ux, ux-design, Web-Design, web-site-design
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