I'm Ketan ‐ A Melbourne web designer, developer and illustrator with 20 years industry experience.
My journal, a collection of my design work, inspiration, discoveries and personal experiences in running a business.
Please do not send me requests for "publishing opportunities on my website" or link placements - they will be ignored.
7 October 2018 Project Web Design Wireframing
This is my typical process for designing and building a new website. It briefly describes each step of the project, what’s required and what it entails. 1. Project Brief The client and I discuss the...
3 October 2018 Business Freelancing Remote Working
I have quite a few UK based clients, so when I moved to Melbourne, Australia with my family in 2016, I wasn’t sure how my working week would go. Working during the night while the...
27 September 2018 UI Design Mobile App Design Icon Design
I designed the branding and user interface for a blood pressure logging app for Android. All the artwork was created in Sketch. Onboarding Dashboard Recording pressure Guide Icons & illustrations
25 September 2018 shopify ecommerce business
Shopify is a popular ecommerce platform which powers over 600,000 businesses across the world. It has some great features and a very well designed admin that makes running your store a breeze. Is it the...
21 September 2018 personal ecommerce shopit
I still remember that day in 2009, where I was sat in my tiny two desk office in the Bolton Enterprise Centre, realising I had to build an ecommerce platform from scratch. It was raining...
20 September 2018 UX design ecommerce
Not too long ago I was invited to meet with a clothing company to discuss some fundamental improvements to their Shopify website. Disappointingly, after two hours of driving and an unproductive 10-minute meeting (where their...
19 September 2018 Project Graphic Design
Buckingham specialises in manufacturing professional cookware. Their range includes cast iron and stainless steel cookware, cutlery, storage and pet ware. For this project, I was asked to design a 60-page product brochure that contained their...
18 September 2018 Project Web Design Logo Design
Recently I designed the branding and UI concept for a small baseball cap ecommerce store. I wanted to create something that was different, straightforward, clean and minimalistic. The “42caps” name was inspired by the true...
18 September 2018 Project Graphic Design
I designed the National Curriculum PE Core Task Handbook for The Learn2 Group which features over 200 resources aimed at improving children’s teamwork, fitness and general skills. To make the materials more engaging to the...
30 June 2018 CSS
I love the new desktop design of Gmail but I find the font size of the message composition window to be too small. Amazingly Google hasn’t added any options to change the font size other...