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User Interface Design Presentation

July 17th, 2006 - by Brett Derricott - Salt Lake City, Utah

The Utah PHP User Group will be meeting this Thursday, July 20th at 7 p.m. for a presentation and discussion on web user interface design and programming. It appears that the presentation will cover both designing and building great interfaces.

It seems like opportunity abounds for flat brochure-ware website designs but many designers don’t have much opportunity to design product (web application) interfaces, which requires more of a usability bent.

Holy Photoshop!

June 30th, 2006 - by Brett Derricott - Salt Lake City, Utah

I stumbled upon this incredible Photoshop image created by Bert Monroy. After some 2000 hours and 15,000 Photoshop layers, he created this incredibly realistic image of Damen Station on Chicago’s Blue Line. It’s definitely worth a quick look. Maybe even a long look.

View the image here.

Imitating Google

June 16th, 2006 - by Brett Derricott - Salt Lake City, Utah

Do you ever have potential clients who use a hugely-successful company as their frame of reference for what they want to achieve?

We’re often approached with a request that goes something like this:

“We’re starting a company that will sell widgets online. It’s going to be revolutionary. How much would you charge to build our website? It doesn’t need to be complicated. Kind of like an Amazon.com or something simple like that. We just need to sell the widgets.” Read the rest of this entry »