Like all things that become popular and overused, there is a backlash against the once revered single page, long-scrolling bootstrap template website. It is safe to say that a good percentage of the design community is eager to bid it farewell. While I am as bored as my counterparts with the army of single page sites that all look pretty much exactly the same,...
Continue ReadingA few weeks ago I wrote a post about changes we have made to our Brick Factory design process over the last few years. Check out the full piece if you have time, but the gist is that we haved moved away from designing pages and towards creating systems. We are trying to design overall styles and repeating elements that make up the pages,...
Continue ReadingFor most of the web’s short lifetime, the primary way to design a website has been to create wireframes and comps (design compositions) of a site’s key pages. Oversimplifying a bit, designers identify these key pages and essentially create pictures of what the pages look like when presented on the web. ...
Continue ReadingWith so many articles griping about the bad font choices that new web designers use, it seemed appropriate to write one that didn’t end with an ode to your top seed, Comic Sans. Instead, I’ve completely disrupted that trend by placing it at number 3. Here are 10 fonts that hurt my feelings....
Continue ReadingWhen it comes to noteworthy design and innovative functionality, consumer brands usually get the most recognition. Luckily, The Webby Awards, the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, categorizes its web submissions so that nonprofit organizations aren’t competing directly with the Volkswagens and Samsungs of the world.
In choosing winners,...
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