Archive for July, 2008

Every day I read a new article about dealing with clients or how to best present your work, however the underlying principal of all of these articles is the creation of a process. This is one of a few things that long established firms have that freelancers and new business ventures most likely do not. I personally have been struggling with the creation and refinement of my personal process over the last year and have refined it to a point that I think is relatively successful.

Every design process varies greatly, however they all share some common ground. A good design process should start by learning about the project and defining its goals. But why create a process, what are the benefits?

I was reading wired.com today when I stumbled upon this article featured on the new webmonkey about how starting today dynamic flash documents would start showing up in Google’s index. Apparently Adobe has supplied Google with a special searchable SWF library that will allow it to do so. According to the original press release, Yahoo! is also working with Adobe to achieve similar results. For the most part I have decided that this is a generally positive move for the technology, however I wonder what impact this improved search functionality will have?

On one side of the spectrum this advancement in technology could have little to no effect (which I will explain below) or it could be a major disruptor in terms of established “rules” of web design. Most likely it will fall somewhere near the middle, however I believe skewed towards the no effect column.