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		<title>Rising demand for user experience designers: Digital Design Job Trends</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 18:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[User Experience Design has traditionally been seen as something most Web Designers do. It&#8217;s an essential aspect of designing any site, yet only 1% of our web designers specialise in the area despite a rise in demand for such candidates. With businesses continuing to increase their revenues through digital, User Interface is becoming more vital [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.elysian-designs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Digital-Design_4.jpg"><img src="http://www.elysian-designs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Digital-Design_4.jpg" alt="" title="Digital Design_4" width="146" height="146" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-50" /></a>User Experience Design has traditionally been seen as something most Web Designers do. It&#8217;s an essential aspect of designing any site, yet only 1% of our web designers specialise in the area despite a rise in demand for such candidates. With businesses continuing to increase their revenues through digital, User Interface is becoming more vital than ever. So, why the shortfall?</p>
<p>Why is it so important?</p>
<p>Initially websites were thrown together to look pretty with not as much consideration taken for the user. However, it&#8217;s since become widely recognised just how essential the user experience is in terms of its commercial impact. The slightest change from the colour of a button down to the font can have a knock on effect upon sales and revenue, particularly in the online retail sphere. We&#8217;ve seen a considerable rise in the number of requests for web designers specialising in User Experience or Interface, yet whilst many designers have experience of it, few are specialists.</p>
<p>What makes a specialist?</p>
<p>A pure User Experience Designer thinks about the psychology of the user, how designing simple things such as buttons in different sizes, colours and placement of copy and images will effect and improve the way the user, uses the site and how quickly it will lead to a purchase. It&#8217;s now also about creating wire frames and planning before a site build, it&#8217;s about continuous monitoring of how users are navigating the site, what works, what doesn&#8217;t and then making changes to improve the experience for the user</p>
<p>Why aren&#8217;t candidates ready?</p>
<p>Digital is still such a young and constantly evolving industry that it&#8217;s almost impossible to stay on top, many organisations are only just starting to develop their online presence therefore the importance of the user experience is still a relatively new notion. However, as the demand for user interface candidates increases so will candidate skill sets.</p>
<p>What can you do to skill up?</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re new to the industry then there are courses available to study in subjects such as human interaction or psychology and many come with a design course attached. Or if you&#8217;re already an established web designer and don&#8217;t fancy going back to the school find out if your company has a User Interface team and try to get involved. Better still, make suggestions to your managers and try to integrate it into your role and request training.</p>
<p>Search the latest digital designer jobs now, or give me a call on 020 7845 7286 if you&#8217;re after some hot shot digital talent. </p>
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		<title>Make Money at Home with Digital Designing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times are pressing, prices are rocketing as both the salary and employment rate are steadily going down. This is the time to be enterprising, to take up multiple jobs, to moonlight, and grab every opportunity to be able to add to the family&#8217;s income, especially now that everyone&#8217;s a little short on cash. Lucky for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.elysian-designs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Digital-Design_2.jpg"><img src="http://www.elysian-designs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Digital-Design_2.jpg" alt="" title="Digital Design_2" width="160" height="120" class="alignright size-full wp-image-47" /></a>Times are pressing, prices are rocketing as both the salary and employment rate are steadily going down. This is the time to be enterprising, to take up multiple jobs, to moonlight, and grab every opportunity to be able to add to the family&#8217;s income, especially now that everyone&#8217;s a little short on cash. Lucky for you, if you already have a computer and an internet access at home, well, you have a business just waiting to happen!</p>
<p>&#8216;A business waiting to happen? However can that be?&#8217; you may ask. The thing is, we&#8217;re talking about the internet here. The Internet, being something wielded by many people, with a huge crowd of people wanting to do mischief, and managed (or at least, being attempted to manage) by the very same crowd when they think no one that that knows them is looking. A virtual Mecca of pirated software, porn videos, tutorials of nearly anything doable in the planet (and some only doable in outer space as well), ripped songs, online dictionaries, shocking scandals, pesky viruses, ten-year-olds posing as twenty-year-olds and eighty-year-olds posing as ten-year-olds-and the list goes on. And on, and on, and on. Into an almost infinite overload of information that a single human alone cannot decipher. In other words, if those can happen, anything can happen, and it would not be completely untrue to say that it&#8217;s full of infinite possibilities. So if anything is possible, then making money in your own house would be a cinch!</p>
<p>Ah, but wait. I still haven&#8217;t answered your question. Well, you could earn a lot of money by hacking, but that&#8217;s illegal, just like using a Sitegrinder 2 pro keygen to use that program illegally. And even though the internet is a cool place and all, the rules still apply, and any breaking of laws could result to you behind bars, or maybe even much worse. So how to make lots of money without the possibility of going to jail, then? If you love designing, have Photoshop, and would just like to stay at home instead of going through the hassle of preparing for work and commuting there, then digital designing is the perfect thing for you!</p>
<p>Digital designing is a field of design that uses digital methods of creating designs. There are many different kinds of digital design, as well as circumstances where they might be needed: whether it be for fashion, web design, interior design, computer game design, or the like, you&#8217;ll find out that you&#8217;ll never run out of work if you never run out of ideas and ways to make your work stand out. If you can&#8217;t do that, then go find another job. But if you enjoy making up creative ways of doing things and think that you are comfortable with having to create artistic expression with functionality every single waking moment of your working time, then this is definitely the job for you. Of course, if you have some problems with coding, there&#8217;s always good ol&#8217; Sitegrinder to fall back on when you are designing websites. You can also find several WYSIWYG programs if Sitegrinder doesn&#8217;t suit your taste at all.</p>
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		<title>Digital Design and Animation Vocational Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Digital Design and Animation trade schools teach graphic design, web design, architectural design; development of animation and storyboards; creation of 3D models; digital videos, video production, creation of video games, and a whole lot more. Interest in interactive media is gaining new markets daily. Careers taught in digital design and animation vocational schools are expanding [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.elysian-designs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Digital-Design_1.jpg"><img src="http://www.elysian-designs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Digital-Design_1-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Digital Design_1" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-44" /></a>Digital Design and Animation trade schools teach graphic design, web design, architectural design; development of animation and storyboards; creation of 3D models; digital videos, video production, creation of video games, and a whole lot more.</p>
<p>Interest in interactive media is gaining new markets daily. Careers taught in digital design and animation vocational schools are expanding rapidly into game design, photography, cartooning, and special effects. Television broadcast news headlines are put into motion through the work of animators, and the entertainment industry relies on animators to create the characters and effects for movies and television programs. Digital design and animation technicians are also found in the fields of medicine, science, and architecture, where advances in design and technology are gaining more importance.</p>
<p>Digital design and animation trade school technology success depends on the creative skill of the student who, through comprehensive instruction, guides and shapes that technology. Programs of vocational study in digital design and animation develop those technical and creative skills that bring ideas to life to instruct, entertain, and fascinate.</p>
<p>Digital design and animation vocational school programs may begin with conceptual foundations in design of two- and three-dimensional images using traditional techniques, before moving into digital imaging. Once basic design techniques are mastered, the student advances toward scripting, rendering, and creation of storyboards. This may be followed by the essentials digital design and animation by construction and manipulation of characters that interact with video and audio.</p>
<p>Digital Design and Animation trade schools may offer distance learning courses, and some schools confer bachelors and associates degrees. The graduate of digital design and animation vocational school is prepared to compete for a variety of positions with film and video production houses, television stations, multimedia companies, the gaming industry, ad agencies, and large corporate clients producing technical productions the excite and entertain.</p>
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		<title>Joomla Makes Web Design Easy For You</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Incorporating content as well as future content needs will facilitate you to figure out the scope of your web design project. You might think that your job is easy, but your designers often see areas of need plus areas that need scaling to achieve your business objectives. It&#8217;s easy to draw a parallel with a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.elysian-designs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Web-Design_1.jpg"><img src="http://www.elysian-designs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Web-Design_1.jpg" alt="" title="Web Design_1" width="168" height="126" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-40" /></a>Incorporating content as well as future content needs will facilitate you to figure out the scope of your web design project. You might think that your job is easy, but your designers often see areas of need plus areas that need scaling to achieve your business objectives.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy to draw a parallel with a physical store in that if you don&#8217;t display your goods properly and have a welcoming entrance, you are unlikely to attract even the most casual passerby. It is the same with a website: you have to provide an easily navigable entrance and grab a visitor&#8217;s attention immediately to entice them further.</p>
<p>If you need custom web applications built according to client specific requirements, advanced web and enterprise portals using the full potential of the latest technologies, professional websites combining appealing design, rich functionality and robust management tools with customer-focused Web development, graphic design, multimedia, or programming professionals, contact us contact us for a free initial consultation, and a proposal for your consideration.</p>
<p>One can find lots of success stories of business owners who have turned out to be successful in their online business by means of internet marketing and advertising. This is because of the assistance of professional designers as well as website design company to market products with the aid of professional web site.</p>
<p>Joomla has clear advantages with regards to extending and integrating the website with other third party applications of software. Joomla has a well formed and powerful API that developers can use to extend the software or integrate with other systems as required. Joomla websites can be easily integrated with other sources or websites.</p>
<p>Many options are before you when you wish to design your website which makes you feel puzzled of which to pick. Simply because there are numerous options, we often overlook the basic web design principles which usually may hinder us from attaining our objectives with our website.</p>
<p>Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera has offered more choices to web users. But, well, it is part of a web designer&#8217;s job to make sure that texts are easy and nice to read on all major browsers and platforms. With browser wars is in full force, Techniques for progressive enhancement are more commonplace than before, giving users of modern web browsers a better web experience than those who will not or cannot use them. This has surely drive competition in web designing.</p>
<p>In order to get quality web designing services, you can consider contacting some experienced website designing companies. Most companies prefer outsourcing their web-based projects to web development companies that are known to have dedicated designers.</p>
<p>By &#8216;creative web design&#8217;, I refer to websites which still have the functionality and relevant information consumers have come to expect, but have a huge focus on the aesthetic aspect, and use traditional marketing &#8216;wow factor&#8217; to capture the users attention, and last longer in their mind than those of the competitor.</p>
<p>There are so many websites out there that have not been optimised for search engines at all, the question is should web designers optimise websites for search engines as part of the overall solution?</p>
<p>Culture of your target customers also impinge on a lot at the time of designing a website, especially when the product or services are related to the culture or the business is limited to particular domain or class. In these circumstances it is prudent to choose the web designing services from that culture only. Select a web designer who is from the same surroundings, so the designer can easily comprehend the mind set of your target customer and can create an absolutely cultural feeling on your website. Like if you want to serve California State then hire a web designer from California only. This theory can help you in getting and retaining more and more customers.</p>
<p>This is nothing but e-commerce. There are innumerable e-commerce sites today and many of them are flourishing even better than businesses that pursue traditional marketing. </p>
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		<title>How To Choose Perfect Web Design Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One aspect of the website is the first impression that your company offers its new customers. One aspect of its website, its design and operation is very essential to make a lasting impression every time your customers. Therefore we design sites that are not only clean, clear and accurate, but go with your existing brand. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.elysian-designs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Web-Design_2.jpg"><img src="http://www.elysian-designs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Web-Design_2.jpg" alt="" title="Web Design_2" width="160" height="120" class="alignright size-full wp-image-37" /></a>One aspect of the website is the first impression that your company offers its new customers. One aspect of its website, its design and operation is very essential to make a lasting impression every time your customers. Therefore we design sites that are not only clean, clear and accurate, but go with your existing brand.</p>
<p>We not only evaluate the work as required, but also as the target market and competitors.</p>
<p>Our web design services include a wide range of services:<br />
1. Web Site Design<br />
2. Graphic Design<br />
3. Logo Design<br />
4. Web Development<br />
5. Search Engine Optimization<br />
6. Web Marketing<br />
7. Writing content<br />
8. Website maintenance<br />
9. Web Consulting</p>
<p>Being a design company of 360 degrees website we offer all that and act as a one-stop shop for all your web needs.</p>
<p>Our website design offers the following services:</p>
<p>1. Reliability: We believe in the sense that they offer CMS based websites and manuals, providing training and support in each site from ours, that need not always depend on us for future changes. It also seeks to achieve long-term relationships with our customers, by regular communication.</p>
<p>2. Communication: In this era of Internet, the world can work anywhere and you can hire people to work for you just a click of the mouse. But most important is communication and the time for communication. We offer our customers a local number, Skype and other instant messages and email to be communicative and give an update every time you need. We have been working over 16 hours a day, 6 days a week so that the media and the response is faster and when you need it.</p>
<p>3. Standards Compliance: It is very important for a site apply to all W3C standards like XHTML so that your site is clean coding and is very easily accessible by search engine crawlers.</p>
<p>4. Usability: The usability of a website is very important for a user or visitor can come to visit the site and easily run thorugh all necessary pages of the web.</p>
<p>5. Scalability: Everyone needs a website Futuristic and CMS so that one can make any changes you want in the future, either the design or coding or additional functionality. Cms websites offer scalable, so that any necessary changes in the future can be done easily.</p>
<p>How does the process of web design work?</p>
<p>Well there&#8217;s no magic involved in this process is as simple as you would like to know:</p>
<p>1. Web design requirements, are collected.<br />
2. Web design consultation occurs<br />
3. Reach agreement<br />
4. Work in progress and sent a first design<br />
5. Comments received and changes are recommmended<br />
6. Other pages are designed<br />
7. Final approval is taken before coding begins<br />
8. Coding is carried out and the website available for testing on our server<br />
9. When everything is confirmed site exists in the client&#8217;s server</p>
<p>Is not it simple!</p>
<p>Web Design Services features:<br />
1. Free Favicon<br />
2. Coding XHTML and SEO<br />
3. Cross Browser Compatibility<br />
4. Fully designed PSD (unlimited revisions)<br />
5. Free Lifetime Support Error<br />
6. 16 / 6 support</p>
<p>Hosting is free for all web sites with CMS.</p>
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