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Every year, I fill up one Moleskine notebook with sketches, concepts, diagrams, project notes and business ideas. Read more

Here are some of my sketches from the past weekend; working on redesigning my logo. The green and purple stickers at the top of the photo are a quick version I designed a few years ago to get up and running as a freelancer. Read more

I’ve been a LinkedIn member for a long, long time and I know some people who use it a lot for absolutely everything, but it never grew on me. Read more

I’ve been using Twitter for some time now, and am a casual tweeter using it only to keep up to date with the latest trends in design and development. But lately, I just can’t be bothered with it. Read more

I was working on a Wordpress blog redesign recently and came across an issue which reconfirmed my belief that all CMS editors should use markdown. Read more

Whenever something new comes out for the web, I like to try it out somewhere, and there’s nowhere better than my website. Read more

It’s been approximately 18 months since I resigned from Project Octo, the agency I co-founded back in Manchester, so I thought I’d share a few things I learned during my experiences. Read more

When I first started in design over 20 years ago, I would go straight into Fireworks or Photoshop and begin composing the look and feel of the website without much thought about content or messaging. I guess this is how web design was back in those days. Read more

Now that GitHub provides free private repositories, I decided to switch from BitBucket (yes, even though Microsoft have taken over GitHub!). Read more

So, whilst rooting through some old boxes, I came across this old CD by Will Tang for which I designed the cover art for around 15 years ago. Read more

Below are a series of sports illustrations I created for LeagueRepublic, a sports administration platform, as part of their website redesign. Read more

I first used Linnworks over ten years ago for a Bristol based superstore who wanted to integrate all their online and offline sales channels into one manageable system. Read more

I designed the logo and produced the website for Flowerpots Online, an ecommerce store powered by Shopify. Read more

This year has been a significant change for me personally and a very challenging experience. Read more

I have 1 dribbble invite to giveaway so if you want to be part of this awesome community, send me 3 of your best shots (or a link to your portfolio) to hello@iamketan.com.au with the subject “Dribbble Invite”. Don’t forget to include your dribbble username! Read more

I like to get in the “zone” when I’m coding, so I usually have my headphones on, even though I’m the only one around, which helps me focus and ignore any distractions from outside. Read more

As a store owner, you know how time-consuming it can be to visit your competitor’s website, search for a particular product, record the price somewhere, and then have to repeat the process for every other site. Read more

Website migrations can be a tricky task and depending on the size of the project, require some advanced planning. Read more

By now, you should know which ecommerce platform you will use for your online store, and now the hard work begins. But where do you start? Read more

I designed the user interface for a currency monitoring app for Android which also involved creating a set of illustrations for each screen. The UI was designed within Sketch, and the illustrations were all created using Affinity Designer. Read more