Chris Johanesen is a graphic designer who specializes in creating clean, elegant, user-pleasing designs for information-rich websites & applications.

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Archive for March, 2006

• The illusion of choice

  I just noticed this widget on T-Mobile’s home page that purports to help you choose the best rate plan. It’s a slick-looking interface device to be sure, and might be helpful if it wasn’t so misleading. Both the horizontal slider and the plus/minus clicker imply that you have some fine-tuned control over how many minutes you […]

  Posted on Friday, March 31st, 2006 in Design | Comments Off

• The Brooklyn Rail

  We soft-launched the new Brooklyn Rail site last week. It was quite a dash to the finish, but so far it’s been pretty well received. Lots more features and improvements are in store, including getting the Rails’ extensive archives into the CMS so they can be easily searched and browsed. Oh, and there’s are a […]

  Posted on Monday, March 20th, 2006 in Design | Comments Off

• Who rocks the party that rocks the body?

  Les Savy Fav at the Warsaw last Friday.

  Posted on Wednesday, March 15th, 2006 in Inspiration | Comments Off