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	<title>The Design Drifter - Civilized Creative</title>
	
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	<description>Stu King: User Experience Designer &amp; Social Media Mogul</description>
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		<title>Evil Nerd: My thoughts on nerdy stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life & Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[xBox 360]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am launching a new blog that is focused on some of my favorite video games.  I decided to create a new blog since this one is designed mainly to be professionally focused.  The new blog is called &#8220;Evil Nerd&#8221; and it will be the place where I talk about all the FUN stuff that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My New portfolio now on Behance Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life & Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portfolio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the blog format but it&#8217;s not the best way to show off my visual design work.  Behance Network has a great format for setting up a portfolio.  The account setup is easy, the interface in interesting and intuitive and I have been very happy with my choice.  I finally have enough of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ultimate Skyrim Dragon Slayer: Gear</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having the right gear is essential to coming out on top in any confrontation with a dragon. This gear lead-out is what I use when taking the field against dragons but creating the ultimate dragon slayer is a subjective thing.  How you approach this depends largely on your character type and preferences.  In this post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skyrim: Character Motivation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started this game I gave some thought to my character and his motivations.  In the past, I have found this to be a helpful guide when making in-game decisions.  This type of thing is not important to &#8220;Power Gamers&#8221; but for those of us who are into role playing, it&#8217;s essential to the experience.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skyrim: The ultimate fantasy RPG?</title>
		<link>http://blog.thedesigndrifter.com/?p=1275</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life & Art]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thedesigndrifter.com/?p=1275</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a long time since my last post.  A lot has changed since then including a job change but I am not planning to make a big post about that.  You can check out my profile if you want to know the details! So what AM I talking about today?  Skyrim, that&#8217;s what.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BioBase Logo Design</title>
		<link>http://blog.thedesigndrifter.com/?p=1268</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Logo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portfolio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[branding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I produced this vector logo using Adobe Illustrator.  In addition to the final logo the package included vector versions of the logo in black, in white and a deconstructed version with only the badge or only the text.  My logo packages are always delivered in vector formats and multiple versions for maximum branding flexibility. Format: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contour Innovation’s Focus on User Centered Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PhotoShop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portfolio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Usability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Helping clients reinvision their sites and content strategies is something I love to do.  Quite often, small and growing businesses are in a hurry to get to market and taking the time to focus on user research and content targeting is not always an option.  In the case of Contour Innovations we knew that early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magic Bag Design Mockup</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PhotoShop]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I build things that do not end up being used.  Why let them just sit around?  Does this mockup look like it could be right for your site.  If you are interested contact me and we can negotiate!  Otherwise it&#8217;s a great new entry for my portfolio.  This design features warm vibrant colors, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crowdsourcing the lake bottom? Yeah, you can do that!</title>
		<link>http://blog.thedesigndrifter.com/?p=1221</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Portfolio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SilverLight & WPF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SilverLight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Usability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What I love most about my work are the cool projects I get to be involved with.  I am part of many huge projects with big clients but it’s the small companies that do the most exciting things.  I recently worked with a small startup call Contour Innovations and what they were doing with social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comic Inspired Design for WordPress</title>
		<link>http://blog.thedesigndrifter.com/?p=1209</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portfolio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching & Speaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While I have made a career of branding SharePoint, my favorite CMS for managing my own sites has always been WordPress.  I find it fun and easy to use and with thousands of plugins to choose from it can be very sophisticated and flexible.  Last year I worked on a web marketing and social media [...]]]></description>
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