Rick Messer, A Designer

A designer in Austin.
Making life more fun & interesting

This is how I do stuff …

My approach to

Mobile

  • Extensive UX planning
  • Pixel-perfect design for all states
  • Vector & repeatable assets
  • Photoshop Layer & Type Styles
  • PSD Layer Comps
  • Work with developers before, during and after hand-off

Tools of Choice:

  • Photoshop
  • Skala Preview
  • Keynote for Wireframes
  • GUI Assets from Teehan + Lax

Favorite Apps: FourSquare, Vine, TimeHop, Path, Rdio, Instagram

My approach to

Web

  • Responsive, In-browser wireframes
  • OOCSS
  • Less, Haml, and CodeKit!
  • Icon Fonts

Tools of Choice:

  • Sublime Text 2
  • Photoshop
  • Bootstrap
  • GitHub
  • IcoMoon

Favorite Web Things: ShopTalk Show, SMACSS, CSS Hat, Chrome Inspector

My approach to

Brands & Such

  • Establish Uses
  • Design for 1-color applications
  • Memorable & Timeless Marks
  • In-person presentations
  • Environmental presentations
  • Designed in a grid to break

Tools of Choice:

  • Pencil & Paper
  • Illustrator
  • InDesign

Brands that I personally use: Field Notes, Apple, Micron pens, Old Spice Pure Sport Deodorant

Inquiries

    • Please Do

    Call Me

    You can also email, I just didn’t want to put “Contact” as the title of this section... That’s lame.

    I don’t even think my phone number is on this site actually…

    Tools of Choice:

    • Twitter
    • Coffee or Beer
    • Lunch
    • Send me an awesome rap video

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