Instructor: Aliyah Marr, Author & Speaker

Duration: 27:46 minutes

Added September 2008

Designer and author Aliyah Marr answers the question, "How do you design a website that sells?" As Aliyah points out, it's all about how web design attracts, maintains, and directs the attention of the user. Pure aesthetics are less important than the effective anticipation of a potential consumer's questions and needs. Aliyah demonstrates that there's more than one path to successful retail website design with a broad range of surprising, engaging examples drawn from the web.

About Aliyah Marr

Author of a groundbreaking book on creative development named Parallel Mind, The Art of Creativity, Aliyah Marr is a multimedia artist, graphic designer, and educator. She has explored painting, design, artistic gymnastics, sculpture, music, ice skating, dance, poetry, prose, and improvisational humor. As a visual artist, she works in a variety of mediums from painting and sculpture through to interactive art and video art.

A graphic designer with a stellar client list of Fortune 100 companies, the author is also a business and marketing mentor for startup companies and entrepreneurs. As an educator, she has taught graphic design, art, interactive programming, and new media at three top design schools in New York City.

www.parallelmindbook.com (book)
www.linkedin.com/in/aliyahmarr (author/artist)
www.radi8.org (art)
www.freshasylum.com (design)