Due to popular demand, hosts Jose Caballer (@josecaballer) and Aure Gimon (@aurepa) take us through an all Sink Or Swim episode! We’ll review and two new sites to see if they pass the Sink Or Swim test, and then dive into how to improve the sites’ form and function. Then the team checks in on HorsePowerCalculators.net, a previous Sink Or Swim contender, to see how they’ve implemented the feedback Aure gave back in Episode 41. After that, Jose and Aure choose one of the sites to redesign the home page live Video Rating: 4 / 5
Due to popular demand, hosts Jose Caballer (@josecaballer) and Aure Gimon (@aurepa) take us through an all Sink Or Swim episode! We’ll review and two new sites to see if they pass the Sink Or Swim test, and then dive into how to improve the sites’ form and function. Then the team checks in on HorsePowerCalculators.net, a previous Sink Or Swim contender, to see how they’ve implemented the feedback Aure gave back in Episode 41. After that, Jose and Aure choose one of the sites to redesign the home page live
This week we begin our four week Web Design 101 plan in which we explain exactly how to build a website from scratch. Host Jose Caballer is joined by design partner Aure Gimon as they disect the information achitecture basics in this first step. For more info and episodes, visit www.thisweekin.com Video Rating: 4 / 5
Hide your wife, hide your kids, we’ve got a Design Battle on our hands! Last week you saw Jose build on Aure’s wireframes for the ThisWeekIn Web Design redesign, today the two designers battle live on the internet! That’s right, Jose and show favorite Aure Gimon will simultaneously riff on design concepts, competing and collaborating to see which is the wildest web design gunslinger of the west. And of course, by watching live you’ll pick up some great tips and techniques from two of the best designers going on the internet today. 00:00 Open 00:30 Web Design Battle introduction 01:35 Robert Haydock, our first member of the Producer Program joins us on set 02:02 Blank Spaces and the joys of co-working spaces 02:45 Why did you join the Producer Program? 03:20 How was the pace of the Groop Skool event? 03:45 Jose reads the Groop Skool reviews on air for the first time. 06:30 The treu benefits of the Producer Program: watch the show as preparation and then go to Groop Skool for the real world practice 08:00 Prepping for the Web Design battle with Aure Gimon. 09:15 Talking with Aure about designing with a creative brief in mind 10:30 Talking about competitors and media partnerships 11:20 Setting up two different perspectives for approaching the design process 12:20 Avoiding too many restrictions in the design phase 13:05 Robert talks about meeting Eric Ries of The Lean Startup 16:30 Jose talks about benefits and learning curve of applying lean development to web design 18:30 … Video Rating: 4 / 5
This wee, in our third episode of Web Design 101, an in-depth case study on how to create a web site, Jose and Aure go over tools like CSS and WordPress that help develop a website to be exactly what you want. For more episodes and a full schedule, visit thisweekin.com
