A Sordid Past JavaScript has come a long way from its humble and (quite frankly) sketchy roots. From the start, circa 1995, JavaScript was the Frankenstein monster of web development tools — a sort of necessary evil cobbled together to do certain web development tasks, but never truly appreciated beyond this rudimentary utility. As a [...]
No Risk of Satisfaction Paradox Yet I chuckled reading a recent post by Wired founding editor Kevin Kelly, about what is known as The Satisfaction Paradox. I am so far from being at risk of the hypothetical circumstance he described: What if you lived in a world where everything around you was just what you [...]
The Farmer Update Image via CrunchBase Google calls it Panda, but most web developers outside of Google are calling it the Farmer Update. The idea is to punish websites that are "Content Farms", or in layman's terms, websites that do little more than copy content from other sites and stuff pages full of [...]
Image via CrunchBase The old saying, "Less is More" applies to designing for mobile devices more than almost anything else I can think of. When you're presenting information on such a small screen, you want to narrow your focus to as few elements as possible. A Few Years Ago: Speed Just a [...]
Sometimes you need a perfect circle in your design; sometimes you need an absolutely equilateral triangle; sometimes you need a spiral drawn with mathematical precision. In the days of yore, one needed compasses, protractors, and other medieval instruments in order to approach perfect geometries in design. Thankfully for the contemporary designer, computers are very good [...]
Wikileaks has taken the world by storm, making thousands of confidential documents accessible to the masses. The introduction of social media to our age of information makes even the most sensitive information readily available, as is the case with the Iraq war logs that swept the web like wildfire. As marketers, it’s our job to find ways to harness this capacity for our brands, and for some, Wikileaks might have the right idea.
Image by ttcopley via Flickr Are you wondering if you need a mobile website? It is nothing new to consider screen size and resolution when you make decisions on the design of a template, theme or skin for a website. But increasingly, an additional display does need to be factored into design considerations. [...]
