Promoting is not short for “professional moting” AKA how to get more eyeballs to your blog post

As you may have read in some of my colleagues' posts on this blog already, there has been a slight shift in the way we do things here. Instead of monthly posts, we're moving to a quarterly schedule instead. For this quarter, I'm going to chat about how to you can get more traffic to …

A Designer’s (mini) Guide to Basic Developing

When I first started out designing for the web, all that a plucky pixel wrangler needed was Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and an FTP client to get the job done. I'm oversimplifying a little, but it wasn't far off - if you had those programs to call on, you were sorted. I know a few folks who, …

“I have no idea what I’m doing”

I didn't go to design school. Truth be told, I fell into this whole design thing by accident. Looking back, I've noticed that, each time I had to design something (a project, CD cover for my band, or even wedding invitations for relatives), it was because there was nobody else who was available or willing. …

Designspiration from the field of play

As a marketing designer at WooCommerce, most of the work that I create lives exclusively on screens. You might logically assume, then, that a large amount of my design inspiration would come from other digital designers in the same (or similar) industry. That's only partly true. Since I can remember, I've always been slightly obsessed …

Same same, but different

Same same, but different is a phrase I came across after talking to friends who had recently been on a holiday to Thailand. They told me that, when vendors in the local marketplaces don't have the exact item a customer asks for, they will often use the phrase, "same, same but different" to try and …