Nomad Chique: Visual Experience Design

Where do you find the time? It’s a question I’m asked weekly. Three nights a week I attend a web professionals meeting, social media chat, or local networking event. I watch at least two webinars every week (my friends call me a “webinar-holic.”). As a volunteer leader for two professional groups, I help plan and [...]

The expectations placed on you in a corporate setting as a user experience professional are going to be the same expectations you’ll have to meet as a UX freelancer. The only difference is that your in-house corporate counterpart has company money to spend. Even though you may not have all the same resources, this does [...]

Many things have been written on the web about the new features of Illustrator CS5. Guest writer and illustrator, Pablo Lara Henriquez, shares some of his favorite resources from the web, as well as tutorials from different sources, to spice up your learning of this well-known software from Adobe.

I use a 50-question scorecard that rates the effectiveness of a site based on usability best practices and specific role-based scenario(s). The process of using this kind of scorecard is often called a “heuristic review.” Read on…

Feeling like you’re in a design funk? Here’s a few methods you can use to spark your creativity.

Many fellow designers I’ve met are in one of two camps – “pixel-perfectors” or “vector virtusos”. Here’s 5 Tools that I recommend if you’re struggling with the switch from Adobe Illustrator to Adobe Photoshop.