Is the Homepage Slider Dead?

The homepage slider has been a design staple in the political and public affairs space for the last half decade, at least. 

For those not familiar with the concept, a slider is an area of a website that allows visitors to scroll through different options like they would a Powerpoint deck. ...

Obama vs. Romney: Mobile Donation Page Showdown

With the rise of the mobile web making your website work on smartphones and tablets has gone from a “nice to have” to a “must have”.   While it is universal understood at this point to be important, best practices haven’t completely emerged yet as to how best to build for the mobile web. ...

Four Reasons App Developers Build for Apple Before Android

Over the last few years Android and Apple have come to dominate the smartphone market.  A recent comScore report found that 85% of mobile devices run on either Android (52.5%) or Apple’s iOS (34.3%).  Blackberry and Windows have seen their market share evaporate over the last few years, and at this point Android and iOS are the only mobile platforms that matter....

Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs

I love a good quote.  When I was in college I kept a list of them in a giant word processing document.  I would drop them pretentiously into my papers, hoping some of the wisdom of others would rub off on my own mediocre writing.

Given that it is no surprise that our Brick Factory website and biographies pages include liberal servings of quotes that we hope help explain our philosophy....

Three Lessons From My First Year as a Business Owner

On October 1, the Brick Factory turned one year old.  We had a great first year.  We are in a good place financially and have done some fantastic work that I’m really proud of. 

On a personal level, the launch of the Brick Factory has been a big change for me. ...