Joel Schafer: 'I'm into minimalistic clean design' January 15, 2008

Joel Schafer is a web designer who mainly specialises in graphic and interactive design. This was a much shorter interview but could this be relating to the main title 'into minimalistic design'

The main base of the interview is very basic all of the answers are to the point and very simple answers but I suppose in a way I feel that it is a good way to keep the readers interested because the answers are so simple and straight to the point the readers get the information they want to know.

One of Joel Schafer main points that he likes to make out is that the minimalistic clean look is best way to be and I have to agree with this, I feel that if a design of the web site is simple and has a user friendly interface then the potential users will feel more comfortable using it. What I was pleased to see in this interview was that Joel Schafer only uses actionscript, html, xml and php all of the things that we will be learning this year so I feel things are starting to look up.

Looking at Joel Schafer's advice I think that I will invest into some web design magazines start getting some inspiration from other designers.

The difference between Joel Schafer and Dan Saffer's interview is that they have two different ways to how they go about designing their websites. Schafers way is to manuscript straight away before producing as this helps you solve your problems before you start. Saffer's way is to do design after design until you are happy with your final outcome.

Maybe this is something I need to think about when producing my project work for this year. However instead I may combine both of the designers advice and design, design, design until i'm happy with an certain idea and then manuscript my chosen design.

However I could completely change my mind when it actually comes down to my designing.