Kemie Guaida: Honorary member of the BatchBook design team
- Posted May 27th, 2008
- Filed under: User Experience
Here’s Kemie!
When building a screen for BatchBook or batchblue.com, there are a lot of things on my mind—user interface design, user experience, visual design, front-end coding, and more. I’m not afraid to admit when I need a little help. And time and time again, I have found that help from iStockPhoto, the wildly popular user-generated stock imagery web site.
iStockPhoto has an enormous user base that contributes photography, illustration, video, and more, making the media available for a fraction of the cost of larger, established stock companies. The end result is a massive user base purchasing from an equally massive database of superb imagery. Luckily, when I need to turn to iStockPhoto for icons, I don’t need to sift through the seemingly billions of thumbnails. I now visit the portfolio of one designer, Kemie Guaida.
While Kemie is an accomplished web designer/developer, photographer, and illustrator, to me she is our resident icon designer. Every time we launch a new feature or need to make an area of a page “pop” a bit, I turn to Kemie. Her style works perfectly with BatchBook’s and her extensive portfolio means I always find what I’m looking for.
You may recognize her work below (these are the icons we use to represent each main BatchBook feature on batchblue.com):
