Yes. Quite often, good design is absolutely integral to a successful web experience. The trust and integrity a good design can convey will drive the user to a conversion. And we have proof! (more…)
This Year the elf yourself campaign by Office Max teamed up with comedy media experts Jib Jab to bring on the elf madness. Not only can you upload 5 Hi-Res images but you get to view and send 4 different elf dances. If you have about an hour to compute I recomend you get your elf on.
Yes, I mostly wanted to blog this because of the praise it brought, but if patting your own back after someone else pats it, on a Thursday afternoon, is wrong, then I ... I just don't know. Anyways, the above image shouldn't have white space inside the non-white, in theory, but it does. And you should have seen it before we got the images working! (more…)
I've always dug industrial design. From the furniture of Charles and Ray Eames, to the Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, to the automotive design of Ferdinand Porsche, and to the great stuff presently being done by Frog Design and others. I recently came across this firm: http://www.suissacomputers.com/ Unbelievable synthesis of art and science... Functionality and form... Use of contrasting materials and textures. Love it. Just thought I'd share it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I6xkVRWzCY Wordpress 2.7 has been released today, nicknamed "Coltrane". And in case that means nothing to you, where should I begin? Wordpress is a most awesome open source blogging system that has been expanded to really become a fully-functional Content Management System. With plugins to allow everything from image galleries (check out Wordpress' creator Matt Mullenweg's nice setup) to fully customizable Meta-data on every page and post you create (check out what Ron is doing over at the SDInteractive blog),…