All Interviews Archives
Interviews Archives
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Jon Hicks: designer of print and new-fangled media
We're very happy to have in our designer interview series; Jon Hicks, of Hicksdesign. Maker of the Firefox, Thunderbird & Mailchimp logos as well as many other great additions to the web at large. How or where do you find inspiration? Usually from the opposite of what I'm working on. For example, ... More -
UMS Interview: Elliot Jay Stocks
Our most recent designer interview in our series is with Elliot Jay Stocks; designer, illustrator, speaker, musician and author of Sexy Web Design. How or where do you find inspiration? From all over the place, but I try not to rely purely on the web. I get a lot of my ideas ... More -
Tim Van Damme: Otherwise known as Maxvoltar & madebyelephant.com
Tim Van Damme, known as @maxvoltar, is a freelance web designer from Belgium (madebyelephant.com) and innovator in the industry. We have enjoyed his personal blog maxvoltar.com and suggest he makes it into your list of people to follow online. How or where do you find inspiration? I find inspiration in everything that ... More -
Lea Alcantara: Design with sass and class
Lea Alcantara is the design power behind Lealea Design. We've been admiring Lea's design for a while now and are very happy to have her as part of our designer interview series. Make sure and follow her on Twitter: @lealea. How or where do you find inspiration? It depends on ... More -
Aarron Walter: UX Designer at Mailchimp, Author & Teacher
Aarron Walter. is the author of Building Findable Websites: Web Standards, SEO, and Beyond (New Riders, 2008) and the lead user experience designer for MailChimp. For more than a decade Aarron has been busy building websites for his clients, and teaching interactive design courses at colleges and universities in the ... More -
James Mathias: leihu.com
This month we bring you James Mathias. Aside from being a very interesting character to follow professionally and personally through his website, he's one of the most intriguing and inventive designers we've seen in a while. The way he weaves good design with illustration and witty writing just keeps ... More -
Matthew Smith: Squaredeye & Patterntap.com
This month we bring you Matthew Smith of Squared Eye and Pattern Tap (probably our favorite design patterns website!) Matthew is a great design thinker and really loves bringing fine detail to his work. If you ever get to meet him you'll find just within a few minutes that his ... More -
Jason Beaird: Author, Designeloper
This month we bring you Jason Beaird. As well as being a contributor to unmatchedstyle from time to time in our podcasts Jason is a web designer/developer "designeloper" for Cyberwoven and author of the Sitepoint book "The Principles of Beautiful Web Design". Jason is a regular speaker on ... More -
Kevin Cornell of Bearskinrug
This month we bring you Kevin Cornell. Kevin is an illustrator and designer who regularly blogs and posts illustrations on his website bearskinrug.co.uk. How or where do you find inspiration? That’s a tough one. There’s very few things I can outright name as “inspiration”. There’s little things here and there in everything ... More -
Ross Boucher of 280 North
This month we bring you insight from Ross Boucher of 280 North, makers of the Cappuccino Framework, 280 Slides and the eagerly anticipated Atlas. What is your company called and what do you do? I founded 280 North with my two co-founders, Francisco Tolmasky and Tom Robinson. Together, we’re building the next ... More






