Summary of Skills
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Design & Layout
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CSS + HTML
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CMS Integration
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Strategy & IA
Personal and Professional Background
I‘m Darren, an interface designer and developer based in New York. In addition to client work, I release my own products and writings on the side.
Since 1998, I’ve designed rich, user-friendly interfaces for web projects of all size. Some designs have been featured on Mashable, Design Meltdown and Best Web Gallery. I’ve also published articles at places like SitePoint and Fadtastic, written tutorials on my own blog, collaborated on projects with Smashing Magazine, and released my own free and paid web products.
Some personal projects include Pro Theme Design, a digital marketplace specializing in WordPress themes, WPQuestions, a paid question-and-answer forum, and WPTopics, a WordPress news aggregator.
Apart from web design, I like traveling, playing soccer and supporting Liverpool FC, listening to The Best Show and supporting WFMU, surfing, and my oldest obsession, playing loud, irritating music.
If you’re a developer in need of UI to complement your coding ideas, please get in touch about collaborating.
…If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter —Cicero
I love this quote and the challenge of helping clients apply it to their projects. Throwing every design trick and marketing message into a layout is easy, but boiling it all down into a deceptively simple interface takes patience.