As the year comes to a close, it’s always important to look back on the past 12 months and glean the trends worthy of rolling over. It’s easy to do this by clicking through various design blogs or ‘image dump’ sites such as www.ffffound.com, which is where most of the following images were pulled from,…
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When your website has a lot to offer, it’s hard to know how to organize it. How will people know where things are? Will they look in the same place that you would look? These questions are some of the most important when designing your website, because if someone can’t find what they’re looking for…
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User testing should be at the heart of every marketing campaign you do, ever. For website design, usability is always why you put a button here or a block of text there, so that you can drive your customers to click ‘Buy’ with ease. Once you’ve put your most important information above the fold (what…
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Making our clients happy is our number one priority, but when we are designing websites or emails, proofing can become an arduous task that ends up taking more time than the actual designing. Back and forth emails turn into phone calls that turn into emails again with attachment after attachment trying to explain what the…
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I think I can safely say that everyone I know has (or has had) a Facebook account. This free to sign up, social giant of a website has hooked the young, old, and everyone in between. While it’s a little strange to see status updates about my grandma’s blackberry bush or my 7-year-old cousin’s little…
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We all know that Google totally rocks and is always ahead of the curve, and this proves it: Google’s Font API Web designers are always trying to find a way to use interesting and unique typefaces to help set them apart from the millions of websites out there (Arial is the most commonly used web-friendly…
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Meet the team pages seem to be more popular with web design and creative firms, but they create valuable additions to any site where human contact is important. It adds a personal touch to your company, and can gain some massive trust to your visitors. There’s suddenly faces behind the names, and your company becomes…
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I heard the story a few days ago on NPR and was taken aback by AT&T’s approach to their data plans. Citing that 2% of their users use more than 2gb of 3G bandwidth a month, which is bogging down their system, and that justifies limiting the “unlimited” plan for everyone. Now don’t kid yourself,…
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Since its inception WordPress has lacked one feature that made for a better user experience. A custom post type. If you wanted to write a post about recipes one day, then have a photo post the next day, then maybe a journal post, each one would require a different data set. A recipe post for…
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Providing incentives to your customers are very important because they can cause motivation, effort, productivity and profit. Your consumer needs positive incentives to encourage them to engage in your service/product and will greatly affect the reputation of your company. These encouragements can allow for numerous types of responses – impulse, motivation and drive just to…
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