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A Scenic Tour of the Online World

Bad typography can kill good design

Plumbing sites to get new visual designs and content marketing strategies.

Oh, how far we’ve come. Check out a couple of decades worth of changes in web design and development.

I came across a very interesting article on A List Apart last week about graphic design and the collaborative process. It’s called Design Criticism and the Creative Process and it’s worth a read if you have the time. If not, here’s a quick summary and my 2c. Essentially, you have to view design and design [...]

Recently, colleague, collaborator and writer Jude Jussim and I were discussing something we’ve seen lately that we hadn’t seen since the early days of the Web: organizations relying on inexperienced, young web designers to build their sites. It seems to make economic sense in this down economy, but it’s still a bad idea. Read on [...]

A picture’s worth a thousand words, the old saying goes. Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen begs to differ. Only some pictures are worth a thousand words. In his Alertbox release today, Nielsen take’s the position that eyetracking studies show that how users approach images on websites depends to a great degree on what the images [...]

Clients ask us about our design process all the time. They want to know why we ask them to fill out our Creative Brief Questionnaire, why we prefer to present initial designs in person, and mostly, why we ask so many questions. Questions, Questions, Questions We do ask a lot of questions. Some clients feel [...]

I just read yet another interesting article about how influential the design of Apple’s Website is. And like many of the others, I think this one misses a larger point to some degree. Yes, it’s beautiful in a way that fits the “cultural aesthetic of the time,” the expectations of its audience, and the products [...]

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