http://www.designdirector.nl A day in the life of... Michiel Ebberink Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:14:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In between Ford occasions and the Ford dealerwebsite we managed to squeeze out this Ford maintenance website. Its a website where we try to convince Ford drivers to get their service checks done at a Ford rapid service dealer. Its much cheaper and its from Ford. On this website you ... http://www.designdirector.nl/my-work/ford-onderhoud-ford-maintenance/ Jos Bogman is the first of the 150+ Ford dealers with a brand new dealer website. Yesterday we finished migrating the old site into the new design. As creative lead on Ford interactive I was responsible for the visual design, interaction design and functional design.  Auto interactive was responsible for ... http://www.designdirector.nl/my-work/launch-of-the-first-ford-dealer-website/ The new dutch Ford occasions website is (after a half year of  hard work) online. At Ford A1 you can browse trough all available Ford Occassions in the Netherlands. As the creative lead on this project, I was responsible for the complex interaction design, functional design and visual design. The ... http://www.designdirector.nl/my-work/ford-a1-occassions/ Every designer has its own technique of working with photoshop. But what happens when you work with several designers on the same document.  Here are the absolute basics for working with shared documents. • Use ruler guides. If the existing dimensions of a graphic has changed, update the corresponding ruler guide to ... http://www.designdirector.nl/my-work/how-to-work-efficiently-with-your-final-photoshop-file-at-ogilvy-interactive/ Some new work again on the portfolio page.  This time its for Adez. I will try to explain what my role was on this project. Adez has been working on rebranding their product of soy and fruit drinks. and my job was to redesign the website. Somehow they didn't want to ... http://www.designdirector.nl/my-work/adez-new-website-design/ Just found two nice banners from some time ago. One is for Orange and the other is for the red cross (by Arnold de Kok) we made at Publicis Amsterdam. Both won some prizes. The banner for Orange was featured on Banner blog and the banner for the red cross ... http://www.designdirector.nl/my-work/banners-from-2005/ I added some new work to the portfolio page. For the Deloitte recruitment website I was responsible for the initial interactive concept and the eventual design. The recruitment site was called "Werken bij Deloitte" http://www.designdirector.nl/my-work/deloitte-recruitment-website/ Saturday we celebrate our 1st year of marriage and of course many more to come. We will celebrate this event in London. A place where I haven't been yet. http://www.designdirector.nl/my-life/1year-anniversary/ By popular demand I re-posted my Allah Heijn poster. I'm getting so many visitors trough google looking for the Allah Heijn poster. It used to be on my portfolio site interactivo but that website I'm not using anymore. So now I decided to upload the poster and show it again. ... http://www.designdirector.nl/my-work/allah-heijn/ Today I received an email from Steve Krug mailinglist. This is what he wrote: "By a combination of skill, cunning, and sloth, I've managed to successfully avoid social networking sites/tools for several years now. The main reason has been that I already get far more communication (mostly email) than I can possibly ... http://www.designdirector.nl/thoughts/to-tweet-or-not-to-tweet/