is web design boring now?

Nelson Abalos Jr

@thepixelgeek

 

nelson@webflow.com

Hi.

Story time

Team Mystic FTW

Real Story time

Over 20 years of tinkering

"...what if X could be Y"

My current "what if"

After you've learned the basics,

build your personal brand/portfolio

  1. Gather your content
  2. Find inspiration
  3. Build it
  4. Hate it
  5. Rebuild it
  6. Hate it
  7. Rebuild it
  8. Just launch it already.

Gather your content

  • Solutions to those "what ifs" and past work
  • Everything you've learn and tackled to finish those projects
  • List of skills
  • Past experience
  • Your Story

Finding inspiration

  • Commercials
  • Movie and Video Game UI
  • Package design
  • Other Websites

Building your portfolio

  • Tell your story first
  • Be unique, not a robot
  • Make your site a filter for you

By the way

Great segue, Nelson!

Summary

  • Always ask "what if"
  • Find inspiration from everywhere
  • Build it fast in Webflow ;)

Make the Web Beautiful

nelson@webflow.com

twitter.com/thepixelgeek

Webflow Workshop here @ DBC

August 31 - 6pm

thank you. <3

web design is boring

By Nelson Abalos Jr

web design is boring

Creating happiness on that bridge between Web Designers and Web Developers. The old waterfall workflow to create a website from scratch has yet to evolve. The amount of pain points that a creative team must tackle has increased significantly due to the rise of mobile devices. In this talk, we’ll discuss these pain points, the root cause of them, and how we as a web design and development community can work together to fix it.

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