While growing up, I envisioned doing something creative for a living, but I did not really plan to design for such a medium as the Web. Having gone to traditional art school, I assumed that I will be working directly on the medium I chose, shaping it through physical contact.

And so here I am, almost a decade later, still doing visual design for the computer, still manipulating pixels. I will be the first to admit I have not learned all I really can about design. It is a process, and I am pretty sure there is no end, a point where I can say, "I know design in all its aspects".

What I do know is that design, being a process, has very definite steps. These steps are what I follow in projects I take, and I find it to be useful. It gives structure to an underlying chaos.

I do most of my design work on a Mac; I find it to be very familiar ground. A graphics tablet, while not absolutely necessary, is a tool that I like to use. It was also one of my very first computer accessory purchases. Using a pen as a mouse is, to me, a natural extension of writing.