Stumbled across a tweet that led me to this older study “How Little Do Users Read?” (via Jakob Neilsen’s Alertbox) Apparently, not very much. In summary, (even though this article is 3 years old) people were already only reading at most 28% of your words on an average visit, spending maybe 4.4 seconds on each 100 words. I’d wager a...
Read MoreiPhone Photoshoot
Another cool behind-the-scenes video showing how you can achieve studio-quality photos using just a simple iPhone 3GS camera. Again proving the point it’s not the camera you use, but it’s the photographer behind it. What I personally love most about this studio reveal is seeing how they set up the lighting…. I want those softboxes and...
Read MoreCreating an iPhone icon for your website
I’m trying to avoid being Apple-centric…but with the release of the iPhone4 just last week, it’s hard to avoid at least some kind of conversation about it. I actually saw my first iPhone4 in hand yesterday….a associate of mine actually braved that long line to get one. I must say that Retina display is pretty pretty pretty nice. OK,...
Read MoreCSS3 techniques
With so much possible these days in the area of online design, about the only thing holding a developer back is time, budget, and the ever-present browser compatibility. It’s still neat to look at demos of what’s possible though. Like this great collection of tutorials and examples of what you can do with CSS3. There are a lot of examples where...
Read MoreWord-of-mouth
I’ve never been good about bragging about myself. It might be my asian upbringing, or even the fact I grew up here in Hawaii where generally most business people aren’t as aggressive. I remember in my past employer, my manager had to always encourage me to speak out, “you should tell them that you did XXXX and YYYY, you’re...
Read More4.5 tips to being a good web designer
Today I had to do a 10 minute presentation to my business networking chapter. Since a fellow member had suggested I talk about website design today I tried to think of a subject for them that wouldn’t bore them to tears. I could easily talk about HTML code and scripting all day long but I think I’d lose their attention in about 20 seconds. So...
Read MoreAbout Me
LoweStudio Inc was founded by me, Raphael Lowe, a Honolulu based illustrator and web designer. I presently design and manage a few dozen commercial websites, but my main focus these days is acting as the head developer for Kapiolani Community College and teaching New Media Arts.