When designing a website, it is important to keep in mind the fact that not everyone using the website is going to be as technically inclined as you are. The safest way to go about designing a website is imagining that you are making it for extremely young children (just don’t use overly bright colors and condescending text). Everything about the website should be intuitive, and browsing it should come as naturally to the user as browsing one of his favorite websites.

It is no secret that we absolutely love illustrations. Time and time again we have written articles showcasing superb illustrations from talented artists, and we plan to keep on doing that, so as to have an excuse to sit and stare at pretty things all day long. Today, we will be gawking at Ben Marriott’s lovely illustrations, and talking a bit about them, as well, so that maybe we will be able to provide you with a bit of design inspiration for your own projects. But first, let’s get to know Ben a little bit better.

What would advertising be without images? “Radio infomercials!” you might be inclined to say, and you would most definitely be right. However, that still does not mean that the world of advertising would not be a much more boring place without visuals. Advertising is, in its own way, an art form. Love it or loathe it, it blends uses words and especially images to illustrate a concept. Whether or not the concept itself is a good thing is a totally different issue.

Being a project manager is tough. It means a lot of work. Your day to day is comprised of a lot of meetings, facing and solving a host of problems, asking for resources when the ones you have are insufficient (which, you’ll find, is most of the time), following up on a million tiny details, writing up constant reports on how your project is evolving, not to mention dealing with a lot of different people, many of which don’t really make the job any easier on you.