Charlie | Web Design Columbia MO

SEO for this site is going to be like shooting fish in a barrel. http://HigherEdWebDesign.com/ Make me an offer I can’t refuse.

Some sketches I came across from various projects.

I need to make an iPhone app, so I signed up for an iOS design crash course. This is pretty hard stuff (for me) but I’m making it easier on myself by making an infographic about iOS programming as I go. I find that it forces me to learn it by designing an explanation that [...]

Are things getting better for higher education where the web is concerned? I think so — even if it’s not in a perfect way. What I’m seeing is the rise of mid level administrators who recognize that the web actually is important, and that it’s also important that it be done right, but they don’t [...]

One of the coolest things about my job in recent years has been the addition of student staff. I generally have a handful of students: convergence or broadcast journalism, graphic design, computer science and Information Technology. Apart from having someone young around to show me the latest cat video on YouTube, it’s really refreshing to [...]

I love the Apple Magic Mouse. It makes browsing the web and documents a breeze. However, the slightest misplaced touch to the mouse while in Illustrator or InDesign and poof — you’re taken via unstable wormhole to a different quadrant of your artboard. I searched for a simple solution that does this: If I open [...]

Some people are being very reactionary to the new Facebook stories filter, claiming that Facebook is now useless, or that you need to segment your audiences in higher education. I think that very few people do social media right to begin with. On top if that, some of the people freaking out over Facebook have [...]

Ahh, okay, you’re interested in becoming a designer? Well, in the same way that knowing MS Word doesn’t make one a successful writer, good design is 3% software and 87% design and communication discipline, and 10% business. So what I would recommend to someone interested in design, is to get a BA in Graphic Design and [...]

The recent Higher Ed Live episode was an intense journey into the issues surrounding why higher education sometimes seems like a place of doom for designers and their careers. I don’t know if anyone has any hard numbers on this, but I can see why people would be jumping ship at this time in history. [...]

I’ll throw my hat into the higher ed debate with this argument. The controversy surrounding the viability of higher education is framed wrong. Higher education is being subjected to scrutiny that is not just out of focus, but obtusely misdirected. The irony, however, is that we brought this firestorm on ourselves by trying to make [...]