Archive for the 'Design Tips' Category

Crayola Crayon Colors and Your Website

This is just a follow up to my post about Crayola Colors. They do have their place on your blog and on your website.  Here is a great resource that shows you all 120 Crayola colors, names and their corresponding hex codes! All 120 Crayola Color Names and Hex Codes Now, how is this important to [...]

Build a Theme Into Your Product

Today I wanted to talk about something fun – images.  This is just a quick post to give you an idea of how to get a visual  ”theme” going in your ebook or PowerPoint slides you’re using to create videos. We’re going to look at Microsoft Office Clipart. I know, I know… it’s the cheesiest. [...]

Organizing Your Content Graphically

When creating your product and it seems to be getting a little text-heavy, think about how you can use graphic organizers to make sense out the content you are writing.  This does not mean making your text upside down or into funny shapes or swirling figures (although in some cases this can work out well!). [...]

What’s UX With That?

If you are a mobile phone fanatic, or if you just browse around on many of the tech sites, you may have heard about all the various lawsuits involving Apple, HTC, Nokia, Blackberry among others. If you look deep into the details (I admit I did not), you will see a lot of these lawsuits [...]

Fonts Reloaded

A few days ago I posted about fonts.    I explained how fonts can change the look, feel and tone of your info product. So I want to talk about fonts once again.  Hopefully you took a look at some of the sites I mentioned and fell in love with the thousands and thousands of [...]

There’s More to Life Than Arial

Have you ever spent much time thinking about the font you are using?  If you’re like most people, probably not (and you’re probably thinking “font what?”).  So let’s start off  by explaining what a font is and how it can change the look, feel and tone of your info product. What’s a font? A font [...]