Archive for the ‘Critiques’ Category
Common website design sin, the lack of web analytics
There is a lot of common website design mistakes made by web designers, I will dedicate a post to each mistake that I’d like to address. The first ‘sin’ for this series is the most simple to implement but quite an often overlooked feature, especially by ‘newbie’ web designers. This is web analytics, or rather...
IEC website punishes its visitors for NOT using ancient technology!
I wrote about something similar regarding sabc one’s website, but this time I stumbled upon a worse situation. Firstly, let me start by educating those of you who aren’t website developers. There’s a traditional web design strategy called progressive enhancement, simply put: a website must be developed in such a way that all users are...
What would have made the ‘perfect’ Pick ‘n Pay logo redesign?
Let’s face it, logo redesign is without any doubt one of the most challenging element of rebranding. The question is, what does the redesign need to be to be regarded an improvement of the prior design? It has been a couple of months since Pick n Pay has rebranded, and as you’d expect not everybody...
My views on facebook’s advertising model
Mark Zuckerberg and the crew behind Facebook has just launched their redesigned users’ profile layout. One thing for sure is that loyal users will definitely need some time to ‘digest’ and get used to the new layout. In this post my focus is more on Facebook’s ad system and a bit on the new layout....
The real bargain of ‘affordable’ designers?
I know that it’s in a good business person’s nature to strive to pay as little as possible for the best quality as possible, but sometimes a line needs to be drawn – somewhere between quality and affordability. In one of my previous article I listed some of the important phases of professional logo design...
2 reasons why clients will always expect to pay R99 for a logo
…well, some clients not all. First and foremost graphic design is not coming up with ‘acceptable’ and ‘nice-looking’ designs, it is a very important form of communication that have an enormous impact on our lives and decisions we make. It cannot get any easier to be a graphic designer. Nowadays most people declare themselves as...