About Marko Dugonjić
Marko is a designer, speaker and author based in Sacramento, California. Currently, he manages the design team at SymSoft Solutions.
Before that, Marko funded a nano-scale User Experience consultancy Creative Nights in Velika Gorica, Croatia and has been a member of editorial staff at Smashing Magazine.
Marko is a father of two little ninjas and a princess. He is interested and involved in many things, but mostly the art, nature, sports and on top of it — the family life. By trade he is a fitness trainer. But that’s another story.
His first steps in the industry were beyond good taste and he always says he can’t remember where these first designs disappeared. However, some of the recent work is featured in Creative Nights portfolio. Nowadays, Marko is focused on studying User Experience Design, Typography and Web Standards, especially the idea of One Web.
Interviews
Articles elsewhere
- Pragmatic UX Techniques For Smarter Websites
- Setting subheads with CSS
- Responsive Web Typography with WebRTC
- Designing For The Reading Experience
Book
- Co-authored The Smashing Book #4
About this Website
Maratz.com is a personal playground, a sandbox for new web design concepts. The domain name is after Marko’s internet nick Maratz. Entries mostly cover work-related topics with occasional personal observations. Experimental projects can be found at webdesign.maratz.com.
For updates, please use RSS feed — it’s fast, lean and it gets you right to the relevant content. No ads.
Typography
The layout is based on a flexible grid of thirds. Headlines, subheads and navigation are set with FF Meta and body text is set with FF Meta Serif. Typeset with TypeTester. Web fonts served by Typekit.
Technical
The website is powered by WordPress with addition of a few modified plugins. The rest of the tweaks are questionable programming attempts and modifications of the original code. Don’t ask what is tweaked, we honestly can’t remember.
Maratz.com & Co. is hosted by Plus hosting, the most agile, flexible and reliable hosting provider.
Copyright
The code and text is provided under Creative Commons Licence. Images are property and copyright © of Marko Dugonjić, unless otherwise noted.
Fun facts
- I was a member of the winning team at 3rd Aerobics Championship of Croatia back in 2000.
- You can still find traces of my evil times using Word at the second edition of Grich Bull Terriers.