Good Stupid is a stream of the best worst ideas on the web. Fellow conspirators and I curate the best stupid we can find and allow users to weigh in. My theory is this: We won’t get anywhere unless we admit that we all make stupid sometimes. I do not hold myself exempt from the pages, by the way.
The Curations Series is an ongoing collection of posts and articles written by the people of Unit Interactive. Each digital book is curated around one central theme, and is available in ePub, Kindle & PDF formats. I designed both the PDFs and the eBooks, and dove head first into developing the content for eBook formats (ePub & mobi). The result is a series of books that not only keep a consistency of thought and design across many themes, but also across many devices and reading environments.
Along with the rest of the Unit Interactive crew, I have worked closely with Woot! for almost three years now. In that time we have seen them explode into one of the largest online retailers and recently get snatched up by Amazon. Of my work with them, Shirt.Woot’s Reckoning – a live ranking of current shirt designs by sales – is probably the most notable.
The good people at BWS needed a site that reflected their fresh take on providing talent for any scientific writing needs. I worked with this smart coalition of freelancers to help build a web presence that gave them credibility and and quick way for interested parties to contact them. The bibliography page also allows them the ability to keep a relevant listing of their publications.
Nick is a busy man. He runs Xomba.com – a site populated with aspiring writers and their myriad contributions – and he has just moved to the Big Apple. With all of this experience under his belt, he wanted a site that would allow him to showcase his creativity, his passions, and his advice on creative writing. I designed this faux-noir theme to successfully bring all of Nick’s disparate thoughts together under one unique aesthetic.
My Dad has a contracting business, and he asked if I could help him out with a quick web presence. Usually, I am wary of such favors (surely, most designers can relate), but I thought it could be fun to bring a strong industrial influence to a clean, info-driven design. I am quite happy with the results.
John DeGroote opened up his own practice after years of working his way up the established ranks of the law industry. Focusing on mitigation and negotiation, his site needed to reflect his straight-forward, no fuss approach to settlement strategies.
Just Made My Day was a concept by Unit Interactive that seeks to bring a bit of positivity in to the oft negative interwebs. I tried to craft a design that would inspire immediate optimism, and developed the site on Wordpress. You can find more info about the process here.
Unify is a simple content editor designed for anyone to use. At Unit Interactive, I concepted, fully developed, and even designed some bits of the application, while Mr. Andy Rutledge took over the entirety of the UX and design. Since its launch, I have also been in charge of customer relations and marketing of our product.
The guys at Vector Media Group had outgrown their old site, and their next site design needed to address all the unique idiosyncrasies that make Vector such a great team. Vector brings a new level of openness and tangible results to SEO and SEM, and I was excited to express that for them.
Recently, I had the pleasure of working with the best settlement negotiator I have ever met. Mr. John DeGroote had an epiphany on the shores of Galveston not too long ago, and I got to help him wrangle that intangible aspiration in to a bona fide website plus identity. Pay him a visit… I am sure you will learn something.
Nathan C. Ford is a busy man.
Flying around Dallas, he doesn’t care much for safety …but he does care about making great web stuffs. Interrupt him here: nathan@artequalswork.com