The evolution of the user interface, or UI, has been very interesting to watch for those of us who have been there from the beginning. Back in the very old days, computers were cold and forbidding, with stark text on black backgrounds, emitting occasional beeps if you...
Through what other media channel can your business reach over 1 billion people, target exactly the demographic you wish and have direct communication with your customers? This is why any business, big or small, should consider marketing on Facebook. It's a great...
Typography and publishing have changed drastically with the proliferation of personal computers in the past few years. What had originally been a profession with only one medium – paper – has exploded into the digital realm, dragging some old print design concepts...
I'll take a stand here: The slavish support of older web browsers is holding back the development of the World Wide Web. Unless there's a very good business reason to keep up that support, many developers would prefer to toss them on the junk heap of history and focus...
In an earlier article, we discussed the problems American businesses might have with color theory when trying to expand overseas. This demonstrates that American businesses trying to expand internationally can run into a number of problems, both big and small, from...
One of the most popular questions we receive when talking to clients is whether or not they need an app to help them expand into the mobile market. Usually, after we speak with them for a while, it becomes clear that all they really need is a mobile website. Mobile...
Much has been written about using “real-world metaphors” in computer interface design, especially web design. People living in the real world – most of us, as I understand it – have an innate understanding of what a button, switch, or checkbox is for. Developers have...
Google's recent loss of about two percent of their market share, dropping them below 75% for the first time since 2008, has created a lot of conversation among internet pundits. The main cause of this drop involves a change in Mozilla Firefox to switch its default...
Since the Internet has global reach, many of our customers are thinking about the pros and cons of moving their brand into other countries. Earlier we posted about the different meanings of colors in other cultures. But colors are just the tip of the iceberg when you...
With hundreds of TV channels competing more and more furiously for our attention, it is no surprise that advertisers are being increasingly controversial. Sometimes they make mistakes and accidentally breach the advertising codes. But much more often it's a deliberate...
Being an American-based business ourselves, we tend to work with other American-based companies. By and large, most of our customers are local in scope and aren't interested in branding for anything other than the local market. But sometimes a company will come to us...
Occasionally someone will refer to one of our designs as “a work of art.” While this is flattering, we don’t usually see it this way. Artists and designers both create visual compositions using a shared knowledge base, but the thought process, reasons, and results is...