Every brand needs a face. A first impression. Why? So that you can relate to it. It's what ties an inanimate object or idea to your personality and encourages buyers. Let's not treat the buyer like an idiot though. The design is about story telling. It's about pure content mended together with form and function. Design is all about re-engineering an idea to tell a story and that is what I do. I'm a UI designer which stands for User Interface. Yes, I do other things like user experience, social media, Read more [...]

When it comes to effective web design and SEO, you should focus on this phrase - 'quality content'. This is perhaps the most effective method of online marketing, by getting your company's presence online and therefore reaching out to more potential customers. The content on your website should be useful to visitors, whether or not they make a purchase. Read more [...]

Some of you may think that this fear is odd but you will be very surprised to know that fear of public speaking is on power with the fear of death while a few studies claim that this fear supersedes the fear of death. It is said "it is far better to be in the grave than to conduct a eulogy". That means in this bold world of ours today there are tons of people who are scared to give a speech in public. Read more [...]

It is very important to find a good web designer. As a business owner, there is no way that you will be able to teach yourself how to design an effective website. You can however use any site builder on the market, but this will most often leave you with a very unprofessional image. Read more [...]

Behavioral Design is all about determining how a user will interact with your thing. Thinking ahead and committing to a plan. You want peope to like, share and use a product in the way that the designer and engineer intended. Dan Ariely wrote about the predictably irrational. In his book he mentioned examples of impscenario he offers you a half box of chocolates now or if you wait a week he would give you the whole box. In reality logic would state that people would want the whole box, but in Read more [...]

The past two days have been a powerful whirlwind of networking, drastic caos, funny moments and genuinely nice people. Too many descriptor words in one sentence? Well let's just say day one started off as a bit of a cluster f&$*! Went to the airport: got stuck in Dallas for an additional 5 hours. Upside: met numerous new austin buddies! Awesome moment: when a ticketing agent finally let us on a stand by plane 4 hours earlier than we were meant to leave. Downside: ran from terminal to terminal Read more [...]

Keyboard shortcuts CTRL + Mouse up/down: Change the font size in a conversation window. CTRL + E: Center text CTRL + R: Right justify text CTRL + L or CTRL+J: Left justify text F9: Open Gmail to send an email to the person you talk to F11: Start a call F12: Stop the current call ESC: Close the current window To switch between multiple chat windows, press Ctrl+Tab. Emoticons Face emoticons (smiley faces etc.) :-| : - | :-O :-O :-x :-x :-P :-P :-D :-D ;-) ;-) :-( :-( :-) :-) B-) B-) :'( :'( :| :| :O Read more [...]