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Design Professionalism

Andy Rutledge has written an amazing ebook on taking back our design profession. Design Profesionalism brilliantly outlines how we as industry professionals should behave, outlines the basic knowledge we should all have and sets standards we should all adhere to in an attempt to make the design industry as professional as every other mature, respected industry like accountants, doctors, engineers etc. I believe that until you have read this book, you should probably stop pushing pixels, writing code or passing yourself off as someone credible.

You can purchase his ebook for the low $9 or just visit the beautifully designed website where he shares the information for free.

Digiguru 2011

After several successful Flash portfolio sites, I decided to build my new portfolio in HTML5 & CSS3 in an attempt to push myself further. I built the bulk of the site in 3 weeks, from learning HTML5, figuring out how to use jQuery and using the brilliant Handcrafted CSS book by Dan Cederholm. I had picked up the trend of responsive web design, it made sense to me simply because I’ve always believed in using the screen to it’s full potential with fullscreen Flash websites. The site currently doesn’t showcase all of my work, but I intend on rectifying that. It’s not a single page website either, which I love, but unfortunately with all the work in my showcase, it just doesn;t make sense, I did not want to do a lightbox. But it is long, has just enough work, information and it’s easy enough to contact me. Best of all is the responsive design, which makes the site look amazing on computer, iPad or iPhone devices.

I’ve received an overwhelmingly positive response to my site, plenty of recognition online, but the award I’m most proud of is the FWA mobile of the day, making me the first South African to win a FWA for mobile. Best part, it’s not my mobile website, it’s the same site built for multiple devices.

I have some tweaks to make on the site, like adding a full portfolio archive, a navigation problem affecting usability and correcting buttons on the iPad. So expect a refresh sometime soon.