Portfolio Sample: a new ShortwaveDesign.com.

I’m currently in the process of redesigning my business site, Shortwave Design, to fit my new needs.

Updating my portfolio is one of those things that has never been easy enough for me to convert into a solid habit, so it’s almost always behind.  Currently, it not only lacks my most recent work but also some of my best work, work that simply never had a screenshot taken of it.

I’m hoping to make the 2010 redesign of shortwavedesign.com as simple as possible, minimalist in both presentation and publishing philosophy. It simply needs to be.  This is the first conceptual version.

Pattern App

I don’t remember at all how I got to it, but I ran into a site called Pattern App, which catalogs and displays common user interface design patterns.

It’s unreasonably cool for a guy like me, but it’s also kind of neat for the average web user to see just how much thought and planning goes into simple things.  Take, for example, the “Always Visible” design paradigm; the example used over at Pattern is Facebook.  They certainly have some pretty cool designers.

Not that they deserve a feature film to be made about them…

Yeah. It’s happening. I just found out today.  It’s a bit weird.  I like the idea of overglorifying web developers and designers, don’t get me wrong, but we all know there’s not a single logical way that Zuck got as much action as that trailer seems to portray.  And why is Justin Timberlake in that movie?!