When Didier first approached me to work on a user interface for Locomotive, his content management system (at the time still called NoCoffeeCMS), I thought it was a great opportunity to finally design my ideal CMS interface. I’ve worked with Joomla, WordPress, Textpattern, and Expression Engine, and none of them had that perfect mix of features, flexibility, and good design (although WordPress and Expression Engine came pretty close). (more…)
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
Locomotive: Behind the Scenes
Monday, December 28th, 2009
Rollip.com review
A few days ago I was offered 15 pro accounts for my readers for Rollip.com in exchange for a review of the service on my blog. Although that’s about 5 accounts too many compared to the amount of people who read this blog, I thought it was a good idea especially since the service seems promising.
Friday, November 6th, 2009
Site Redesign
I knew when I redesigned my site, it had to be big. It would be linked by all the galleries, it would be tweeted by everybody, and the work offers would start pouring in shortly after. I figured with my new kick-ass portfolio, a high paying job at Apple or Google couldn’t be far away. So I spent hours and hours on the mockup. I did about 15 versions, each slightly better than the last, getting closer and closer to portfolio perfection.
And then I threw all of that away and used a free wordpress theme instead.
Why would I do that? Shouldn’t someone who calls himself a web designer we at least capable of designing his own website? The truth is that all that self-inflicted pressure was getting too paralyzing. How should I style comments? How big do the thumbnails need to be? Where will I put my social network links? All those questions were piling up while I was putting off updating my current site.
But nobody cares if your site is the best designed on the net if it doesn’t actually exist. And I realized if I’m designing sites for a living, my work should be able to speak for itself.
So here you go, a very plain, very boring portfolio. But at least it’s there.
Friday, October 30th, 2009
FCC & TFC
Here’s a quick post to point out two new sites I’ve worked on. I’ve done front-end and user interface design on both sites. The first one is FreeConferenceCalling.com and is a great way to hook up with your clients or coworkers for a quick conference call. The second one is TollFreeConferencing.com and gives you even more control over your conference call, with sub-accounts, billing options, and lots of other great features.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Platinum
Another month, another template. But this one is a little special, since it was specially made for application websites.
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Don’t listen to your readers
I guess I’m an elitist. It’s almost a dirty word, but if the shoe fits I’ll wear it. I admire companies like Apple or 37signals that design for themselves and do things their own way.
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
Mercury & Hermes
I’ve just wrapped up my newest theme. Two themes, actually, both for Shopify. The first one is called Mercury, and you can get it at Themeforest for only $10 !
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
It’s the Journey, not the destination
I’m proud to introduce my latest work: a website template called Journey, for sale on Themeforest.
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Grooveshark Icon for Fluid
I’ve been using Grooveshark a lot lately, and now that I’ve finally made the switch and bought a Mac, I can use tons of cool little apps such as Fluid, a Site Specific Browser (SSB) which transforms any site into its own application. I did this with Grooveshark (as explained here) and now Firefox can crash, and at least I’ll have some music to keep me company while it relaunches.
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
Published on Vectortuts !
I’m proud to announce that one of my articles was published on Vectortuts today ! This Illustrator tutorial teaches you how to use the effects panel to create a repeating geometrical pattern, which is a very popular style of logo these days.
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