Alan Houser

Conserve Indiana educates voters about environmental and quality-of-life issues that affect Indiana’s land, air, water, and public health. The campaign encourages Hoosiers to support candidates and policies that protect the environment and promote a sustainable economy.

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From Designer → Creative Director

The middle class of design is shrinking.

Simple layouts. Social posts. Basic landing pages.

AI does those now.

What clients need is direction.

Not a pixel-pusher. An orchestrator.

Someone who can guide tools like Sora or Midjourney to produce 50+...

The Pants Rule

A great idea from Design Is a Job by Mike Monteiro:

The client knows everything about pants. The designer knows everything about design.

The client understands their customers, their product, and why the pants exist.

The designer understands layout, typography,...

One underrated feature of Squarespace:

You can redesign an entire site without touching the live one.

I often rebuild sites behind the scenes, then swap them when everything is ready.

Zero downtime. No broken pages. (And no one sees the half-finished redesign.) 😍 Curious how...