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This is an interesting article that briefly talks about the basics of creativity. It’s nice because even thinking about creativity feels like it gets those creative juices flowing. They use Pixar as an example of successful creativity: Pixar produced the first fully computer-animated feature film, Toy Story, in 1995, followed by Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo. The [...]

I currently have a client that’s basically an art company. They have great artists in the company, and it’s a bit intimidating. My artistic skills are definitely growing, but it’s such a soft skill compared the hard skill of programming that I’ve been doing for the past 15 years. I don’t feel the need to be [...]

Since about 6:00pm yesterday evening off and on, and for the last two hours solid, I’ve had photoshop open with a design. I’ve had my headphones on, and I’ve just been looking at the design while listening to a particularly good song. But the most amazing thing has happened. I’ve been adjusting the colors as I [...]

I don't care enough about Ikea for this to be personal for me. But the fact that a big design company made this choice, it makes it feel like stupid is some sort of a disease and it's spreading fast.

As I’m just really getting started with more serious color work, I noticed something interesting today. That for me at this point color choices are very iterative. I was working with a red today, and created a red that was a darker shade of another red. It was fine and worked with it a while. Then [...]

I’m starting another redesign of this site’s theme. The current theme, at the time of this writing white, brown, and rust was sort a conglomeration of new theme ideas that I never quite finished. For instance, although I like some of the color experimentation that I did here, this theme doesn’t really have a complete [...]

Today I was working on making the contents of a guest shopping cart be integrated with a user shopping cart once the user logs in. Like how amazon does it. Once I was finished, it felt so rewarding. I like having my own business so much better than being an employee. It enables me to [...]

I just finished a new theme for Doxie News and I’m really happy with it. I think it’s my best theme yet and I couldn’t want any more from it. As you can see it shares a lot of design concepts with Designoplasty but is distinctly its own. I love the shading in [...]

I just uploaded a new theme. Here’s how I work. I have a base theme that gets updated with the current best technical ideas of my themes. All the good structure ideas go into the base theme that I would generally want all themes to have. Then the other themes need to be updated with [...]