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If you are expecting to find postings about the most fashionable color schemes or latest design trends, sorry to disappoint you. We are beyond clueless about those kinds of things. What we do hope to provide you with are insights into the workflow process we have learned from our design firm clients that might benefit your firm, useful articles about technology, and just for color, the occasional travel post.
If you are expecting to find postings about the most fashionable color schemes or latest design trends, sorry to disappoint you. We are beyond clueless about those kinds of things. What we do hope to provide you with are insights into the workflow process we have learned from our design firm clients that might benefit your firm, useful articles about technology, and just for color, the occasional travel post.
Best ways to grab images from websites
This week I was on a vendor's website when I realized that the site had changed in that they had a new magnification feature that appeared whenever your mouse hovered over a product image. That could be a [...]
Congrats to Commune for their New Book!
We have had the pleasure of having Commune Design as a client for many years. Based in Los Angeles, they have an impressive portfolio of international high-end hotel, commercial and residential projects. And as if that weren't enough, [...]
Joseph Pratt is our new Director of Sales!
We are excited to have Joseph Pratt join our team as our new Director of Sales. For the last seven years Joseph worked for XSS Hotels, one of the top vertically integrated hotel development companies in New England. [...]
Executive Dashboard
We are pleased to announce the release of a new Executive Dashboard optional module for DesignSmart clients who also use QuickBooks. It provides owners, board members, upper management, and other interested parties, easy access to vital corporate financials [...]
New Image Collage
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then an image collage is worth.... well let's just say an image collage is a great way to see all the images in your project in a way that conveys [...]
Show Me The Money!
Years ago there was a popular movie called Jerry McGuire that unleashed a popular expression: "Show Me The Money!" The expression might not be as popular as it once was, but if your staff are paid commissions, then [...]
Custom Dashboards
If you aren't deep into the design industry it would be easy to think that all design firms do basically the same things: create a proposal, issue a specification, maybe send out some purchase orders and wrap it [...]
New Optional Module! Introducing ‘Overture’ for Creating Client Presentations!
We are excited to announce the release of our new optional module called Overture. With this module you can create client presentations on 17" x 11" paper (though you can print it on small paper if you wish). [...]
Experiencing England in Stile (no that is not a typo)
Last year my wife and I took advantage of some airfare specials to go to England to hike their National Trails. Because the trails cross private lands, you usually won't walk more than a few hundred yards before [...]
Like the outdoors? How about some good news?
In 2016 I posted an article about Sperry Chalet in Glacier National Park (you can read that article below). The following year a wildfire caused extensive damage to the cabins and the facility closed. At the time there [...]
Part 3 – How to be more productive working from home – Mesh Networks
Have you heard of the term "mesh network" before? Granted any term that includes "network" sounds geeky and should be avoided at all costs. But with many of us confined to our homes, it might be worth your [...]
Part 2 – How to be more productive working from home – SSD Drives
Does your home computer seem sluggish? Does it take a long time to boot up? If so, rather than purchasing a new computer you might want to consider these two less expensive alternatives. #1 - Determine what kind [...]
