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Website design survey humor

September 14, 2011 4:57 p.m.

Part of our website design process is the Design Survey.  This short questionnaire is completed by the client and gives us a sense of their vision of a new site design.  It is a great way to uncover and address strong feelings at the beginning and ensure we deliver to expectations.

One of the questions we ask (with phrasing happily borrowed from happycog.com) is:

Using adjectives and short phrases, describe the site’s desired look and feel.  What immediate impression should your website convey?  (“Easy to look at, edgy, classic, up-to-date, crisp, modern, traditional, understated,” etc.).

Most clients answer ...

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Updated 09/14/11 @ 04:57PM CDT by brian

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Categories: Design


New site dedicated to our technology

July 18, 2011 5:01 p.m.

Last week, Imaginary Landscape launched a redesigned site dedicated to the technology side of our business at chicagodjango.comDjango is the Web application framework we use to construct interactive websites.

Generally speaking, purchasers of Web development services fall into two audience groups - tech and non-tech.  For example and again, generally speaking, Web-related decision making remains largely the purview of marketing.  This is a traditionally non-technical audience.  Their concerns include brand continuity, aesthetics, ease of use and user-facing functionality.  These are all extremely important to a Web-based experience.

This site, imagescape.com, speaks to this audience.  It was designed with ...

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Updated 07/18/11 @ 05:01PM CDT by brian

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Categories: Business Design Technology


A thought about awards

October 28, 2008 11:08 a.m.

It's award season again and, like many firms, we have some more hardware to add to our faux mantle. This time it is a WebAward for the National Cervical Cancer Public Awareness Campaign Web site.

In all honesty and with minimal bias, it is a very nice site with a great mission and deserving of recognition. We are happy for them (and us) for the award.

Our policy about fetching awards is minimalist. I believe it is important to have some accolades adorning a wall, but I don't much care for the buy-yourself-an-award cottage industry that will provide ...

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Updated 07/14/10 @ 11:08AM CDT by brian

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Categories: Business Design Marketing


The worst designed Web site on the Internet

March 18, 2008 11:34 a.m.

No further commentary is needed.

http://havenworks.com/

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Updated 07/14/10 @ 11:34AM CDT by brian

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Categories: Design Fun