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Content Meaning

From Josh Medrano
August 26th, 2011
19 Comments

You’ve heard the questions before. “The design looks great, but what are you trying to communicate?” “Where’s the message in your design?” “Did you use this texture here for a reason, or is it just design for design’s sake?” Okay, enough with the questions. I’m supposed to be answering these, right? ...

Design is About Solving Problems

From James Young
August 24th, 2011
26 Comments

Recently, a couple of things happened in my design career that have made me sit down and reflect a bit on where I’m at and how I can improve what I deliver to my clients and their users. I’d noticed that my source of inspiration had changed and that I ...

The Dangers of Designing for Context

From Jason Gross
August 18th, 2011
16 Comments

In case you haven’t noticed, there is a growing excitement around mobile or device oriented web design. This excitement is fueled mostly by the high adoption rates of devices that come equipped with full scale browser capabilities but that’s not the only reason. A lot ...

Ignorance is Bliss for a Creative Mind

From Ken Reynolds
August 8th, 2011
21 Comments

The saying “Ignorance is bliss” originates in Thomas Gray’s poem “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” (1742). The quote goes: “Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.” Face it: you were better off not knowing that, weren’t you? Generally speaking, ignorance is a detestable state of mind. ...

The Personification of Design

From Karim Boubker
August 3rd, 2011
39 Comments

Just how we are constantly trying to fit in with a certain crowd or to be seen in a certain way by our peers in real life, we are doing the same in our digital lives. And by digital lives I mean our social media profiles. If you come to ...

Why Can’t We(bbies) Be Friends?

From Rick Sloboda
May 20th, 2011
17 Comments

The Web industry is loaded with some of the globe’s brightest minds and revolutionary technologies. Yet, designers, developers, copywriters and other Web types repeatedly fail to reach their full collective capacities. The blame is typically put on big egos or lack of understanding, which is in line with such generalizations ...

How To Become a Better Reader

From Jonathan Phillips
February 21st, 2011
42 Comments

There are literally dozens of articles online about how to write better articles, but I’ve never come across one with tips on being a better reader. This is a shame, because it’s not all about the writer; for every writer of a Web design blog, there are 10,000 readers. So ...

Why Intellectual Property Rights Are So Important

From Cameron Chapman
November 26th, 2010
18 Comments

Intellectual property rights are often confusing and sometimes the topic of heated debates. There are those who question the worth of creative products and projects, claiming design and art are something anyone can do, regardless of training, experience, or any inherent ability. As creatives, a deterioration of intellectual property rights ...

Giving Users Some Credit

From Jeremy Girard
August 17th, 2010
78 Comments

Websites are designed to be used by people of varying backgrounds, educations and technical levels. One of the challenges we face when designing for the Web is finding a way to create sites and applications that can be accessed by a widely disparate audience while avoiding the pitfall of sacrificing ...

Designing for the Mind

From Francisco Inchauste
August 10th, 2010
56 Comments

Do you know what makes a design good? Is it merely an opinion, or is there something more to it? Breaking design down seems like such an abstract thing. Even the designers who are able to create thought-provoking work seem purely talented and have natural abilities that can’t really be ...