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James Stiff
Designer at Mediaburst Joined about 10 years ago via an invitation from C___ F.
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- Precarity Pilot: Re-defining the path of our working lives (precaritypilot.net)
- Variance - Build powerful data visualizations for the web. Without writing JavaScript. (variancecharts.com)
- Special dedicated editing Keyboard for Photoshop (kickstarter.com)
Posted to What to Listen While Designing ?, May 31, 2017 Posted to Need Wordpress Hosting Server Rec Plz, in reply to Spencer Bigum , Jan 08, 2016 Hi Spencer
Sorry for the delayed response!
I'm currently using Tap for my personal site as it's only $5/month and I don't need much in the way of whistles and bells. It's early days but so far I'm liking what I see.
Prior to that I was on Flywheel which I would highly recommend for client projects. Great customer service, well thought out control panel and free migrations! I moved there from WPEngine and it was surprisingly painless.
I've not personally used WPEngine for a couple of years so can't really comment apart from to say that I heard from a client who had suffered some pretty severe outages at business critical times.
Out of the three, I'd probably choose Flywheel.
Hope that helps?
Posted to Ask DN: Who wants to be hired? (Jan 2016), Jan 07, 2016 Location: Manchester, UK.
Remote: Yes. Freelance roles preferred.
Relocate: No.
Skills: Graphic Design, UI/UX, HTML/CSS, Branding, Illustration.
Portfolio: jamesstiff.com/portfolio Update coming soon!
Email: name at domain dot com
Posted to Need Wordpress Hosting Server Rec Plz, Dec 14, 2015 Here are a few that I've used:
Posted to (Funny) Lies All Web Designers Tell Their Clients, in reply to Joseph Lemmons , Jul 03, 2015 I'm with you on this one Joseph. Propagating negative stereotypes only makes it harder for designers to be taken seriously. I know it's meant in good humour and I hate to be a killjoy but this kind of behaviour just makes me a bit sad.
Posted to Let's show Apple how it's done., Jul 02, 2015 If you really want to show Apple how it’s done, why not put your effort into building a viable competitor and bring it to market?
Posted to Let's show Apple how it's done., in reply to Anwar Choukah , Jul 02, 2015 I wish designers would stop moaning about Apple’s design decisions and focus on doing the jobs that THEY are paid to do. An unsolicited redesign is not a design exercise, it’s purely self indulgent.
A design exercise would be to create a solution within the constraints of a brief.
If you have the spare time to work on unsolicited redesigns, that’s great but consider spending that time more wisely. Maybe work on a side project or do something for a non-profit or a charity. THAT will make you a better designer.
Posted to Ask DN: I'd love to go freelance/start a creative company. Where do I begin? Should I do it?, in reply to Rick Butterfield , Jun 02, 2015 Not sure if anyone else mentioned Paul Jarvis but in case they didn't, he has a free email course for freelancers:
Posted to Ask DN: I'd love to go freelance/start a creative company. Where do I begin? Should I do it?, in reply to Rick Butterfield , May 28, 2015 You're welcome Rick. Lots of sound advice on this thread. This podcast might be worth a listen too.
- Erik Spiekermann interview (freundevonfreunden.com)
- Stop designing so much (zurb.com)
- The Ad-Man's Desk Book from the 1940s (imgur.com)
- Gidole — an open-source, DIN 1451-inspired typeface drawn using Euler spirals (gidole.github.io)
- How Bad UX Killed Jenny (medium.com)
- 3D-Printed Letterpress Font (vimeo.com)
- What is your Wordpress theme stack?
- Texts still seem to be the best interface (jarv.co)
- ungrid >>> a responsive, table-based CSS grid system (chrisnager.github.io)
- Thirty Things I’ve Learned (medium.com)
musicForProgramming
A series of mixes intended for listening while '+task+' to aid concentration and increase productivity (also compatible with other activities).
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