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Content-Driven Design – Let’s Throw out Tradition
Feb 2, 2010

First off, I would like to extend my sincerest gratitude to all the emails and Twitter messages I’ve received over the impending redesign of Tripping Words; it is going slowly but steadily. The new website design will pay closer heed (albeit with a hint of measured defiance!) to proven aesthetic principles and more importantly it will feature a more robust content-driven interface. 

 

Redesigning Personal Projects – A Critical Analysis
Jan 21, 2010

We’ve all experienced the occasional (and sometimes rather persistent) itch to redesign and rebrand our existing portfolios or blog homepages. As designers, it has become part of an instinctual response to search for new ways to reconceptualise our online presence and identity for an ever evolving audience with rising expectations. Redesigning is very much like an anticipated sugar rush; it engulfs your mind with positive ambition, drive and inspiration (serves as a nice pick-me-up) but it can also be the source of many impending headaches. This article explores the 3 noteworthy dilemmas involved in redesigning a personal project and how to overcome them.

A Guide to Writing Killer Content for Your Design Blog
Dec 14, 2009

Over the past couple of months, I’ve spent most of my time trudging through several design-related articles in my RSS reader, in an effort to better understand the finer workings behind writing compelling web content. The central purpose of my inquiry revolved around the following question; what makes an effective/engaging editorial in the design industry? If you are an editor of a design blog, then you would be fairly familiar with the rigorous demands involved in churning quality, thought-provoking articles on a daily or fortnightly basis. The truth of the matter is that many blog writers have resorted to rehashing arguments and topics that have already been exhaustively discussed before. The tendency is there, amongst bloggers, to reproduce (or paraphrase) the main ideas contained in various other design articles and compile it into a single ‘new’ piece.