pseudoroom design is the personal creative outlet of Chicago-based design ninja Justin Dauer. Since 1996, it has been the moniker under which his freelance projects, downloadable UI customizations and former collaborations have been created.
GUIGalaxy was redesigned and formally relaunched a couple weeks ago, after resurrecting from a 3+ year hiatus in late 2009. The site is a fun little outlet on design, programming, and WordPress in general — basically all things nerdy.
Have you ever posted a link on facebook and been nonplussed by the thumbnail selections? Or, not even had a thumbnail option at all? Surely there must be a way to get a nice little thumbnail associated with that link, without changing my home page design one bit? The answer is yes, Chachi.
Within the last few months I was contacted by Clay Griffiths, creator of the Headway WordPress Theme, to design their application icon. The icon would represent Headway within the standard WordPress administration panel.
There are a few updates on the design front since last post. Very much in the theme of Systematic Icon Design, I recently had the opportunity to work with the creators of the Headway Premium WordPress Theme on the application icon for their v.1.6 release.
In web site design, after the overall look-and-feel is nailed down, I’ll work out specific UI elements (icons, controls, widgets). Maintaining clarity of purpose and consistency with the overarching interface are paramount concerns.
While not a post on design per se, I took some cursory notes on each of the 7 days I just spent with my wife in Beijing, China. Sadly, the Notes app was about the only use I could get out of my iPhone that week (re: major withdrawal).
