January 4, 2010
Ripplewerkz
Ripplewerkz is an all-in-one company which provides development for:
- Websites
- Blogs
- Print media
- Corporate ID
One of the co-founders of Ripplewerkz is Lionel Chin, and he came to Temasek Polytechnic recently to share his expertise and experiences of using New Media in the development industry.
Lionel Chin’s key points
- Website trends always change, therefore it is important to keep up with the times.
- Website design is very important, because the ease of use of the website is of vital importance for most users.
- Although website design is important in retaining viewers, in order to bring in viewers in the first place, one has to spend time and money advertising the site, to gain popularity.
- By integrating social media into the website, more viewers will come in, because of the popularity and wide-spread use of these social media, like Facebook or Twitter.
- When one decides to become a web-designer, it is important that one is patient, creative and responsible. This is because clients will constantly want to change the design, or make some changes to the content of the website. It is important to carry out these changes not only on time, but with quality.
Things that inspire me
In this lecture, there are basically three things that inspire me:
- The creativity of the web designers, to always come up with a solution no matter what.
- I also realise it is very interesting that although larger companies make a lot of money, they rely on web-designers to advertise their goods, this makes it seem like web-design is a very powerful tool.
- I am also inspired to become a web-designer because there is always room for improvement, and there are an unlimited number of solutions to every problem. This makes it very interesting, as everyone’s solution will be different, and we can learn from each other.
Conclusion
All in all, I feel that it is a good thing that guest speakers come to share their expertise, because we can learn the “Tips and Tricks” of the trade. It might give us an insight on how life in the industry is like, helping us make a more informed choice. However, I feel that if this is done again next year, this talk could be given in the first semester, where we have to take Web Design? I think this would be a more effective approach.
