What’s a Design DinosaurWritten by Lala C. Ballatan
Are you fond of applying and scrambling old and new design clichés in one helpless web page? Are you one of thousands not yet enlightened that ‘too much of a good thing is bad’? Are you too engrossed in improvising other designs and not coming up with your own? Being a design dinosaur is a common sickness among designers who tend to be exposed and awed in latest design clichés coming out and copying or improvising them to concentrate on making his / her original design. But this practice isn’t entirely wrong, though. There’s always some "monkey see, monkey do" in design world. Someone comes up with a great logo, Website, package and next thing you know, they’re everywhere. What’s bothersome in using most design clichés is that it implies you're not using up your own talents as a designer. In graphic designing, ultimate creation to make you cry “Eureka!” may come upon us on our thirtieth attempt. This moment will happen once you really challenge and stretch yourself. Here, we give you several examples of design clichés which uses seem to have gotten out of hand: - Swooshes – this logo was started by Nike and before we knew it, "swooshes" were everywhere on Net. It’s obviously been successful for Nike. But if your Internet company try to use this swoosh along with thousands, we can’t guarantee if anyone would remember you. - Beveled Anything – this give depth to appearance of your graphics and prevent it to look flat and one dimensional. But avoid excessive beveling just because Photoshop now makes it easy. Think about company you're designing for. What sort of image do they want to portray?
| | Set up Your Online PortfolioWritten by Lala C. Ballatan
Planning to set up your very own online portfolio? Very well, then you have to know first what’s an online portfolio and its uses. Of course, you also have to know how to take lay out you portfolio online in order to take advantage of it more. Online portfolios are collections of pictures and information about individuals or companies which are posted in web. These portfolios are a showcase of your skills, services and talents for prospects. By viewing your online portfolio, right kind of users may happen upon it and acquire services you’re offering. In lay outing your online portfolio, you must consider your prospects. Herein we give you several examples and each example has their share of pros and cons. 1. The all-in-one – is throwing all your projects onto one page. It is probably easiest way to set up your portfolio. It’s easy to do and people will get to see all your work in one viewing. However, this kind of lay out may be information overload for viewers. Your work may not stand out too well due to so many graphics. People and target prospects may lose interest by scrolling forever to view all your work especially if they have only one particular interest. Having too many graphics may take your page a long time to load. 2. The Traditional - this kind of lay out has one item per page with little next and back buttons at bottom of each page. There are alternative with small thumbnails of all graphics, linked to larger graphic. This kind of lay-out makes each one of your graphics stand out. It may also bring familiarity to prospects used to a ‘real’ portfolio. But, your prospect may find it difficult to go directly to type of project he’s interested in.
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