IntuitiveDesigns

We are currently looking for a few good contract developers to help us out with various tasks.

About Us: We are a small web design and illustration studio that has been in business located in Madrid, Spain since 2003. We are passionate about our work and hope to find other people that share our same philosophies to work with.

We don’t like monkey work and don’t expect to work with code monkeys either. We would like to work with a bright person that helps bring solid solutions to the table that we haven’t thought of. Ideally, we will be a good team together if you are passionate, motivated, a self-starter, a good communicator, friendly, and someone who has an interest in learning new things and growing as a professional.

Skills Needed:

1. LAMP
2. Javascript (enough basic knowledge to program basic effects and ajax with frameworks such as Mootools, jquery, or prototype)
3. Clean xhtml output - no tables where not necessary or divitis please
4. Ability to code custom applications when necessary

Other Considerations:

We also work extensively with several popular CMS’s. Ideally, you would also have experience or be interested in the possibility of working with these CMS’s in this order or importance:

1. ExpressionEngine
2. Wordpress
3. Drupal
4. Textpattern
5. Joomla

We are looking to work remotely online with developers located in the U.S.

If interested, please contact us with the following information:

1. Some examples of projects you have worked on or are working on.
2. A little bit about yourself.
3. Your hourly rate.

We’ve been thinking about what we would like to do with this blog for the past few weeks. Up until now, it’s mainly served as a place for news and a few tidbits here and there. After talking about it awhile, we realized we’re doing something wrong. We just talk about ourselves and not only that, we just talk about ourselves every once in a great while. How’s that for exciting?

So, we are going to refocus the blog. We want to post more interesting things like helpful tips for designers and clients alike. Topics like how to find a good designer, tips about different cms’s, our experiences learning new things, and other ideas that occur to us. What would you be interested in hearing from us?

It was time for another change in our Home. Last month we already did some changes and the illustration of the chef quit whipping cream to hold a piece of chocolate cake, but the header with the old line “Let’s whip the cream of the crop together” remained and it was a little pointless.

Last week, we asked Naomi Dunford at Ittybiz what our unique selling point (USP) might be for our business. She does marketing and consulting for small businesses and she gives really great advice in a practical way for people who work from home on her blog. She came up with this idea for us: “Creative sites for creative people”. We thought it was really good. We love when we get feedback from creative people like Naomi. It inspires us to come up with something new for our business. So we decided to add the “cooking” theme we already have in place to the USP she suggested and finally got this: “Cooking creative sites for creative people”.

We really think Naomi had a point because we have always thought that creativity is what we can best offer to our clients and we really want to work with people who are especially interested in finding creative and customized solutions that are effective for their business needs. That’s one of the reasons we we like to be so versatile in this job. We don’t like to be stuck in one particular style and give the same product to every project because, for us, every project has different needs and needs a different style and a different look. We enjoy fitting to each project different design and illustration styles. Sometimes we even get a little disappointed when the clients presume we are not right to do a certain work just because the style they’re looking for is not in our portfolio. Obviously, we can’t have all the design styles in our portfolio but we do can work with any of them and we love to do it.

With the new tagline, it was obvious that we needed a new illustration for the header to replace the old whipped cream. I never liked the old whipped cream illustration very much and I think this new one re-enforces the image of design at first glance, which is good for us because sometimes people say our site looks more like a cuisine site than a design one. So we came with this cooking pan full of pencils and pens, and once again… Supper’s ready!

We are proud to announce the arrival of the new FabCity.in design. This has been one of our favorite projects this year and we are excited about sharing it.

FabCity.in is the leading authority “for people who will invest, work, and live in Fab City, India’s semiconductor hub.”. The site is brim full of information about the development of Fab City, Fab City itself, Investment opportunities, and Hyderabad. The site also offers a nice real estate section to buy and sell several types of real estate including residential, commercial, industrial, and plot/land. Several advertising opportunities are also available on the site for interested parties.

The client gave us creative space to try several ideas on the design and we think the result turned out well. The site is meant to be inviting and friendly for site visitors. For this reason we decided to use bright and attractive colors. The client also specified that the site should be clean and easy to use, so we decided to make finding everything as easy as possible. Reaching everything in the site is in most cases as easy as 1 or 2 clicks and the design itself is not overwhelming with flashing graphics or features that distract from the main purposes of the site.

The site was also built using the Joomla content management system. This allowed us to develop special areas of the site such as the real estate section and dynamic site map. In the future, the site will also have a special job section and blog. Speaking of which, there is a job opening now for a blogger. If you have knowledge about the semiconductor industry in India, you may want to check it out here: http://www.fabcity.in/jobs/fab-jobs.html

Our main hope is that the site will be useful for those moving to or interested in Fab City. We’d love to hear your thoughts about it.

Sometimes we have the opportunity of being commisioned to do the design for a subject that we personally like. In this case, we were fortunate enough to do just that.

We’ve been one of the daily readers of Wise Bread for awhile, so when we saw the chance of re-designing the site, we jumped on it. We believe Wise Bread is one of the most interesting sites on the Internet. By reading it we learn something new every day that we can put into practice in our dayly life, and it also helps us be more aware about how little things can make our life better and make Earth a better place to live.

Wise Bread is a web site where you can learn practical tricks and techniques about living in a frugal way without being depraved of the best things in life. For us, this is not just a matter of saving money, but a whole philosophy about saving energy in life and not wasting what life generously gives us. We think that the consumer habits in our modern society have driven us to a point where we don’t value enough what we have in our hands and we get too easily used to wasting things that are really valuable. “One man trash is another man’s treasure”, that’s part of the real deal.

It’s not necessary to live in an extreme way so you don’t waste most of the resources and goods that life provides you with. This is something that Wise Bread provides evidence of every day. And this involves habits of buying, planning the home economy, using energy resources wisely, recycling, cooking, and almost every action we take in life.

For the new design of Wise Bread, the client wanted to avoid any type of noticeable design as much as possible and to focus in the practicality of the site, in order to provide to the readers with an easy, clean and functional web site where the articles are the protagonists. So, besides providing a clean and spacious design for them, we mostly focused on making the reading experience better. This involved careful attention to the typography, line-spacing, font size, and overall organization of the content.

We hope you enjoy reading this wonderful web site and possibly helping this crazy world go round in a better way. And we hope you enjoy our work!