Spicy Web Designer Interview with Marcelo Duende

Marcelo Duende is a 24 year old Flash Designer from Brazil who’s been designing websites for the past 7 years. He considers himself a flash designer first and foremost before anything else and has worked on a number of courses and certifications to become a specialized flash developer. His flash design portfolio is very extensive and showcases his true talent for flash based web design.

1. How did you first get started in web design?  How long ago was that?

I started my career at 17 years in a small town in southern Brazil, called step back. I worked as a web designer for “Madness skateshop.”

2. Did your education help you at all in your career as a web designer?

No, I started maybe not by the need to work together with something that I really liked. Of course, after I made courses, certifications and took as specialized flash developer.

3. What is the most interesting part of a web design project?

Creating and Flash Development

4. I see that the majority of your work is done using flash? When did you first start working with Flash? And, do you consider yourself more of a “Flash Designer” than a “Web Designer”?

I think I am more flash developer before anything else. I program in ActionScript 3, ActionScript 2, AIR and some other things about flash design and animation.

5. How do you handle questions about Search Engine Optimization when your flash design is involved?

Before it was quite complicated, now with the arrival of the flash player 10 everything is simple, Google and Yahoo already were cleared in the “flash movie.” With the flash 10 player and the source of the flash player released, both Google and Yahoo have developed tools to search the entire contents

6. How do you usually price the web design work that you do for clients?

That depends on many variables and constants, provided the briefing to finalizing a lot happens, and you have to provide all this before you drop a price on a project.