- October 2008
- 09: Drupal user account pages
- March 2008
- 21: Thesis abstract
- 03: Identity management
- January 2008
- 08: We feel fine
- November 2007
- 07: Do you use personas?
- September 2007
- 19: WYSIWYG editor usability tip
- 19: LUX Arthouse
- 14: Drupal image attach block module
- 11: YUI grids extension
- August 2007
- 23: Edupaper
- July 2007
- 04: Thesis proposal
- June 2007
- 02: Simple, accessible jQuery menu
- May 2007
- 11: Design Research
- 09: Design literature
- 09: Design patterns and javascript libraries
- April 2007
- 09: Feeds update
- March 2007
- 27: I've still got the blues
- February 2007
- 21: Age of the audience
- January 2007
- 31: Digital Divide
- 11: Redesign
- December 2006
- 20: My new logo
- 16: Photoshop CS3 makes it fun again
- September 2006
- 20: MacBook
- 10: Single point of failure
- August 2006
- 05: Toegankelijkheid in Nederland
- July 2006
- 25: Web DNA
- 19: Table of contents
- 17: Turn on the light
- 12: Dynamic text zooming
- 03: Changes
- June 2006
- 09: Accessibility research Dutch councils
- May 2006
- 02: Drupal 4.7 is out
- April 2006
- 26: Printing websites
- 01: Make your footer a useful leaving point
- March 2006
- 09: I migrated to Drupal
- February 2006
- 02: Running multiple Firefox versions concurrently
- January 2006
- 25: Cool Drupal sites
- 12: My New Powerbook (and why I didn't regret waiting for MacBookPro)
- November 2005
- 11: WYSIWYG text editing in CMS
- 08: My folder of shame
- 02: Design and usability updates
- October 2005
- 15: Happy World Standards Day
- 07: Textpattern hacks
- 02: Upgrade to Dreamhost complete
- 02: Upgrade to Dreamhost
- September 2005
- 28: Should Macromedia open Flash?
- 21: Retiring from LFS
- 18: Zoom zoom zoom!
- August 2005
- 30: Textpattern accessible comments
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My name is Jeroen Coumans, I'm a freelance web designer, front-end developer and Drupal ninja from the Netherlands. I love to create beautiful, usable and accessible websites. On this website, you can find my portfolio as well as my personal weblog. Interested in hiring me? I'd love to hear from you.
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Elsewhere
Designing with data
This article echoes my current thinking on design: "So, IDP (Information Design Prioritisation). Take the elements that are required on a page then decide what takes priority and score the different elements depending on how essential they really are to the user experience. If you’re redesigning a site and using the same information; use Analytics results to see where users are clicking the most and eye-tracking tests to decipher their routes and the hot spots on the page." It's too bad that this article provides the why, but doesn't provide the how.
Neuromarketing troefkaart voor structuralisten
(dutch). Een alarmerende kijk op neuromarketing, een nieuwe manier om reclame te maken door transparante beeldmerken met de video te vermengen.
Drupal.org, Design Iterations, and Designing in the open
Some preliminary lessons on Design by Community, by lead designer Mark Boulton. Interestingly, the first prototypes were not at all what I expected (honestly, I thought they sucked), but by putting them out in the open as soon as possible, and watching trends in feedback, further iterations (especially the last one) are really good. Lets hope this can serve as an inspiration for further Open Source design methodology (and beat Wordpress in creating a kick-ass administrative interface through an open process).
Webapp Death Match: Google vs. Apple
Nice comparison, which raises the obvious question: should web apps look, feel and behave like web sites (a la Gmail) or should they look, feel and behave like desktop apps (a la Mobile Me)? It's too bad that by looking at two extremes, the article can't reach the more obvious conclusion, which is: it depends (on the context, goals, users, brand etc).
45 Beautiful 3D Typography Designs For Inspiration
Some examples really are beautiful
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Interpersonal Divide
"nterpersonal Divide, which won the Clifford G. Christians Award for research in media ethics, documents how long-standing theories—including ones by Marshall McLuhan—no longer hold in the wake of new media and technology. Rather than extending the human senses, as McLuhan believed, Bugeja documents how media and technology split consciousness and diminish the senses, placing users in virtual environments at odds with physical ones. " Via @nielshendriks.
A Smarter MAMP
Combining Apache's Virtual Hosts and installing a DNS server to simplify website development.
Google Analytics Releases Advanced Segmentation!!
A great post detailing how to make use of this: "Along the way I’ll share three different segments that you must have in your web analytics tool. Regardless of why your website exists or what tool you use, Google Analytics or an alternative. I’ll close with a approach you can use to get answers to your ad-hoc questions / queries faster, in mere minutes rather than days."
More Enterprise-Class Features Added To Google Analytics
Still waiting to try them out, localized versions always lag behind.
Putting Anti-Poverty Activists on the Map
"…we were able to leverage other work we’ve done with Mapnik and Drupal to quickly create maps that show off this global participation in an intuitive and eye-catching manner on StandAgainstPoverty.org for the United Nations Millennium Campaign."
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