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Adapting and Evolving

T-Rex DesignsDecades of Evolution and Experience

T‐Rex Designs' founder Harry Brown believes that you have to keep studying and upgrading skills and knowledge to make functional and friendly websites. Yes, I said “friendly”… more on that later.

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Darkroom

Commodore 64 BBS

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America Online

HTML5

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Mobile Devices

SEO

E-Commerce

The strongest advantage in web development is the ability to learn fast.

The Triassic Period

Harry attended a tiny suburban community college... While he was editor of the school newspaper, they were awarded for grammar and adherence to AP Style due to his intense commitment to perfect written grammar and punctuation.

This training continues to serve T‐Rex Designs when writing or editing copy for clients.

I’m tired of talking about myself in the third person. I’m going to switch now.

Beginning

I worked in print marketing in the 1990s at the Shopper Newspaper (South Holland, Ill.) designing advertisements. My design skills improved during my employment as a Graphic Designer at CommuniGraphics (Thornton, Illinois).

This was long ago before Desktop Publishing. I mastered the Compugraphic Editwriter. That's one of those enormous machines with 8' floppy disks.

And the text is rendered on film by shooting light through a piece of film containing the font letters. All graphics were reproduced in a darkroom via giant camera and film. The graphics and text were then cut out and pasted on a piece of cardboard using a hot wax gun.

I think this would be a good place for an entirely unrelated sci‐fi‐looking symbol.

Jurassic Era

After I earned my bachelors in psychology, I worked in group homes with children with maladaptive behaviors. Turned out to be not‐so‐much a perfect career fit, as it was a nightmare‐riffic experience.

When the internet first started, most web developers were techies with no design experience. They made ugly and unintuitive websites. Ugly is bad.

By the time I returned to graphic design, desktop publishing had taken over, and so my skillset needed adaptation.

Uninteresting Detail PageBut Relevant Info

Meanwhile, I refined my professional style and gained corporate experience by producing reports and presentations for two top consulting firms: McKinsey & Company (Fortune magazine top 10 list) and Boston Consulting Group.

Gradually, print graphic designers started to dabble into web design. While their designs were much improved over those of the computer experts, some print design principles didn't transfer over well to the web.

Cretacious

Quality, usability, reliability, and customer service greatly improved with newly established web design companies.

During this time Google came onto the scene and wiped the floor with the competition, finally making searching the Internet predictable and accurate.

I know that was boring.

But the next page has a background graphic.



Typesetter

Darkroom

Commodore 64 BBS

Q-Link

America Online

HTML5

Flash

CMS

Mobile Devices

SEO

E-Commerce

No text to read here… just a relaxing graphic.

The Triassic Period


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