Ellen Johnston’s Makr Helps You Design Your Own Business Cards on Your iPad
For many years, independent business owners had to spend time learning how to use design tools such as Photoshop if they wanted to create their own business card or letterhead. With modern mobile technology however, cool people like Ellen Johnston have made it much easier to create a design for a small business that is truly someone’s own. Johnston founded a company called Makr that creates an iPad app, which provides small business owners with a simple design suite that lets them customize their own paper materials such as business cards, labels, letterhead or anything else. Johnston works to ensure that the Makr design tools on the iPad app strike a good balance between being simple to use and capable of total customization. She wants independent crafters and business owners to have no problem creating designs they can claim for themselves regardless of technical knowledge needed for programs like Photoshop. According to Johnston, no one should ever have to call iPad tech support just to navigate the Makr app and start designing. Read more »
