Author: Paul Boag
Paul Boag is the founder of UK Web design agency Headscape, author of the Website Owners Manual and host of award-winning Web design podcast Boagworld.
Website: http://www.boagworld.com
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Are You Ready For A Web Design Challenge?
- September 21st, 2011
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This is not a normal Smashing Magazine post. I’m not going to teach you something new or inspire you with examples of great work. Instead, I want to encourage you to complete a Web design challenge. I believe this will help to address a weakness that exists in many of ...
Read more...How To Become A Web Design Expert
- August 25th, 2011
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Have you ever wanted to take a client by the collar, shake them around vigorously and demand that they take you seriously because you are the expert? If so, you are not alone. Whether you consider yourself an expert and want recognition or are looking to one day become one, ...
Read more...How To Build A Better Web Application For Your Business
- August 11th, 2011
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Are you fed up with hearing about yet another Silicon Valley Web application built with fairy dust and funded by magic pixies? If so, this post is for you. Most of us will never get to work on a Web application that is funded by venture capital and for which ...
Read more...Utilizing The Power Of Recycling In Web Design
- August 3rd, 2011
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Truth be told, I am a philistine. When people talk about recycling, I don’t think of saving the planet. In my earlier post, “Lessons Learned: Productivity Tips For Running A Web Design Business,” I wrote about how we can reuse and recycle what we do in the Web industry to ...
Read more...Defending The Generalists In The Web Design Industry
- July 26th, 2011
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In recent years there has been a move away from generalist Web designers to specialists such as content strategists, user experience architects and front-end coders. Where once there was a single job, there are now many, with ever-narrower spheres of responsibility. Not everybody agrees with Paul Boag. Anita Hart is convinced ...
Read more...Lessons Learned: Productivity Tips For Running A Web Design Business
- July 20th, 2011
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It didn’t work out as you expected, did it? The freelance life was supposed to give you more time with the family and free you from that incompetent boss. You even thought you might be better off financially. Instead, you’re working longer hours and under constant stress, worrying about various ...
Read more...How To Get Sign-Off For Your Designs
- May 6th, 2011
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“How did you do that?” My colleague Leigh sounded impressed. He had been working with a problem client for weeks trying to get design approval. Then I came along and was able to get signed-off in a single conference call. “Can you teach me how you did that?” he asked. ...
Read more...Fight The System: Battling Bureaucracy — Part 2
- September 14th, 2010
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This article is the second part of Paul Boag’s series about common problems and difficulties that occur in in-house Web teams working in large companies. The series explains ways to to improve how your team is perceived within your organization, overcome politics and problem people, ensure that a project gets ...
Read more...Fight The System: Battling Bureaucracy
- September 6th, 2010
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If you work as part of an in-house Web team, you have my sympathy. If that in-house team is within a large organization, then doubly so. Being part of an in-house Web team sucks. Trust me, I know. I worked at IBM for three years and now spend most of ...
Read more...Web Designers, Don’t Do It Alone
- June 27th, 2010
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Whether freelancers, small agency founders or website owners, too many of us work alone. The downside of the digital revolution is isolation. The Web allows us to do alone what previously would have required a team of people. It also frees us from the constraints of geography, allowing us to ...
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