A Rushed Decor
Louisa Stephan
Oct19th
Topics: Web Design
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I love to decorate. However, budgeting constraints hold me back from completing my full vision. Although I’m still searching for a lot of those final-touch pieces for my home, my projects are heading in the right direction. Maybe if I increased my decorating budget it would happen faster … ? The thought that “I could be completely done with my decorating and focus on other things–to put decorating on the back burner and just relax” is appealing; however, I’m starting to learn that haste in decorating creates a rushed impression, and it’s not entirely authentic.

For example, go to your favorite store for home decorating pieces, and you’ll find that their styles rotate from season to season.

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Back to the Drawing Board
Kirsten Dietz
Sep16th
Topics: Fun Stuff, Technical, Web Design
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a drawing of a classmate done in my freshman drawing class

I started out in the fine arts, as it were.

My mother would buy me rolls (yes, rolls) of paper to satiate my appetite for drawing. I sketched and doodled and colored so much it would get me in trouble in school, particularly when I filled the margins of my workbooks with drawings of animals and trees and whatnot. Over time I found tools on the computer that substituted for pencil and paper, and the frequency of my doodling on notes and napkins waned.

Fortunately my interest in drawing has allowed me to acquire the job I have today, but I feel sometimes as though I’ve betrayed my roots by hardly picking up a pencil in a day’s time.

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Web for Good: Our Client Shortlist
Jonathan Pait
Apr29th
Topics: Company Culture, History and Philosophy, Web Design
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Look around you. Do you see anything that makes you
smile? Is there something you experienced today that encouraged you or motivated you? Those things didn’t just happen. If you recall, there was an action that brought you to that moment.

Here at Web for Good, we have enjoyed the opportunity to see a lot of good being done by multiple organizations across the country. These groups have seen a need in their communities and have acted. Now the time is near for us to help one of them better utilize the Web to carry out their mission.

We have narrowed the choices down to the following organizations:

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Designing in the Browser
Dave Ruse
Apr15th
Topics: Industry Trends, Web Design
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Designing in the browser isn’t really a new concept, just a relatively unused one. It’s been championed by a few prolific personalities in the web design community, but we at Worthwhile haven’t had the opportunity to give it a try until just recently when designing for a mobile-optimized site we’re working on. If you aren’t familiar with the concept, this is a good place to start.

So why would you as a designer want to design in a browser instead of Photoshop? Well other than that fact that it means you don’t have to suffer through using Photoshop anymore, we have three big take aways from our first foray:

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Web for Good: Ready to Select Our First Client
Dan Rundle
Apr8th
Topics: Company Culture, History and Philosophy, Web Design
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Web for Good is officially in our first review period. We’ll select our first client during the next several weeks.

We launched Web for Good almost two months ago and it’s already a tremendous success. Since then, you’ve been hard at work telling people about the program and submitting applications. We’ve been humbled by the response and thrilled to see the applications pour in. Here’s where things stand:

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