Christopher Butler
Vice President
One of our core values at Newfangled is to maintain an ongoing cycle of learning and teaching, so I'm thrilled to spend much of my time sharing what I've learned about the web with my colleagues and our clients. The rest of my time is spent managing the personnel and systems that keep Newfangled producing.
I've written articles on the the current and future state of the web for Newfangled, ImPrint, Print Magazine, Smashing Magazine, my personal blog, and am working on my forthcoming book, The Strategic Web Designer: How to Confidently Navigate the Web Design Process.
Since graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, I have also remained an active design educator—returning to RISD as a visiting critic and Adjunct Faculty, serving as a juror of the 2011 REBRAND 100 Awards, and as an Advisory Board member of the HOW Interactive Conference.
Blog Posts
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It's interesting that I still find myself having print-to-web discussions with designers today, designers who are struggling to adapt their practice to include "interactive" work—by which they mean designing websites (and maybe doing a little markup too) for the most part. But meanwhile, two other technological shifts are posing significant future challenges for those designers who are comfortably practicing on the web. They are content portability and the "internet of things." Missing them will eventually make today's interactive designers as "traditional" as yesterday's print designers...
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Last year, I suggested to Justin that he keep a diary throughout an entire project—from the very first kickoff call all the way through launch—and eventually turn that into a blog post that shows a behind-the-scenes look at the web development process from a designer's point of view. He did it and the resulting post was enlightening and inspiring. As I read through it for the second or third time, I realized that the diary format would be a great way to show what it's like to create content, too. So I thought I'd give it a shot. So, here's a behind-the-scenes look at the process of writing a newsletter for our site...
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Did you know that the percentage of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to human beings is actually extraordinarily small? Depending upon how you express it, it's less than 1.5%! I heard it said once that given all of the information in the universe and the comparatively tiny bit of it we can see, we human beings might as well be blind. After all, we're missing out on a ton. But we do experience the world with other senses—not just sight— and with that in mind, it's fascinating how much emphasis we place on creating experiences that are almost purely visual, isn't it?
