User Experience — 1 comment — By Vivian Clark
03
Aug 10

Using storytelling to find “Billings”

Billings

Billings

I’m a web designer and css developer and just started freelancing full time this year. I never had much of experience with invoices, taxes payment, subcontractors and time tracking for freelance projects before. After a couple months without realizing that I needed a new software to manage my business, I end up having invoices and proposals made on illustrator, projects time tracked by another mac software and my expenses were all lost into my email in-boxes were all my online receipts would be storage, without any control of how much spending I had on each project / by month.

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Illustration / Thoughts — No comments — By Vivian Clark
29
Jul 10

Found myself

Tired of this crap

Remember I told you this blog was going to be a sandbox, a playground where I was still trying to find myself, find my voice? Trying to find out what exactly I wanted to write about it. Where my inspiration would come from. What was going on inside my crazy mind.

Well… I think I found myself.

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Thoughts — No comments — By Vivian Clark
28
Jul 10

Little Sister

My Little Sister

My Little Sister

I always thought she was my little sister.
I always thought I had to teach her, make her home work, help her cross the streets.
I always thought I had to protect her, when she was sick, watch her sleep, give her medicine.
Always together. Same class, same friends, same clothes, same fights.

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User Experience — 1 comment — By Vivian Clark
22
Jul 10

Usability Testing with Usabilla

Usabilla

Usabilla.com

You finish a new design, launch a new site and it always come to your mind, “I should have asked more people to test”, get more feedback. At least to me, I always feel like I would like more criticism then only “the client” who hired me as a Designer.  It’s amazing to actually be able to hear from a “real” user, what exactly he thinks about that design? How was his experience while navigating? What could be improved?

This information is invaluable and I never had much of experience with UX testing before I worked 3 years with a software company.

So, I had been researching a lot about tools that could easily help me “learn” and “test” at the same time. And I’m positive that Usabilla is one of the great ones I found.

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Shenanigans — No comments — By Vivian Clark
09
Jul 10

@font-face easy

Hundreds!!!!!

Hundreds!!!!!

I’m in a bad mood Dude. Why? I had this talk with a client today about @font-face implementation.

They couldn’t pick a free font from a list of hundreds at www.fontsquirrel.com. So they kept bugging me with links of other fonts with different licenses:

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Illustration — No comments — By Vivian Clark
08
Jul 10

Crazy Hair or Crazy Mind?

I’ve been thinking a lot this summer and I realized that simple thinking doesn’t really take us anywhere. So, this illustration kind of reflects the way I look at myself when nothing gets done, and too many thoughts are flying around my crazy hair / mind??

Crazy Hair or Crazy Mind?

After - Illustrator Color 6 effect

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Shenanigans — 2 comments — By Vivian Clark
10
Jun 10

Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

Yeah, I know… I left that sentence and the title right there, because I just love WordPress, how user friendly is, how simple is to install it, and how nice those people are to even let me know of a great title I need and oops! yeah, this was suppose to be my first post! :)

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