Nomad Chique: Visual Experience Design

It’s shoulder season! What’s that you ask? It’s one of those times of the year when you can travel for less cost and avoid the crowds because the peak summer season has ended… and the airlines and hotels really need to get butts in seats and fill those rooms, respectively. So in honor of shoulder [...]

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

Visual Design comes last in the elements of user experience. This component, if done right, reinforces the framework. Check out the details of what it is and how it relates to the user experience.

In my recent travels to Southeast Asia this summer, I realized, while walking through the Suvarnabhumi Airport (Bangkok), that the airport is a great example of the user experience. Read on to find out why.

Last Saturday, I participated at another excellent iPhone/iPad huddle, the Hello Universe Seminar, hosted at Co-Working Fullerton by Rutger Hensel. It was a 1-day meetup to learn, share and connect – specifically, it was geared toward developers, product & graphic designers, UI designers, UX designers, business strategists, legal counsel, and current & future iPhone/iPad entrepreneurs. Check out what happened!

When you put a bunch of really talented strangers into a space for 2 days, you can come out with some pretty amazing things. Last weekend, I went to the first annual camp here in the So-Cal area, stemmed from the mothership camp in the Bay Area. The camp was a way for web developers, UX professionals including UX designers to get together and share and explore the new realm of the iPad.

My take aways from Jared Spool’s “Treasures from the Amazon” presentation at IxDA Los Angeles.

We all have our favorite web apps we use for our business and even everyday life. Here is a list of mine that I think are essential tools for small businesses. Notice that most of these tools are free, which is always nice for your bottom line.

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.