Build Empathy to Improve Your Process
In user experience (UX), we strive to empathize with our users on a daily basis. We watch them and question them. We assume things about them and test those assumptions. We design and iterate to...
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Using Asynchronous Typekit and LESS for Great Justice
Lately we’ve been messing around with a tool called sitespeed.io. It analyzes your website’s speed and performance based on performance best practices and metrics. It collects data from multiple pages...
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Advice From a Successful App Developer
At GS we’re lucky to have employees with wide and varied personal interests. For example, did you know that we have a beekeeper on staff? Or a major golf aficionado? We do! And sometimes those personal...
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Typographical Orphans Begone!
Not long ago, I wrote my first jQuery plug-in called deOrphan. It's a plug-in for removing typographical orphans in text elements you specify. What are orphans? An orphan is a single word that appears...
View ArticleShould Designers Write Code?
There are some interesting articles on the debate of designers doing their own code (by code, they mean HTML + CSS + JavaScript).The position held by a lot of bigwigs in the field is, yes, designers...
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Stock Mindset (SM™)
Using stock art is a reality that we designers have learned to live with. Photo of a middle-age bearded man? Done. Illustration of robot working at PreCrime? Yes, please. Stock art is fast, accessible,...
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Google to Encrypt ALL Keyword Searches
This is a fun article for me:http://blog.hubspot.com/google-encrypting-all-searches-njIt talks about Google’s decision to encrypt all keyword searches for users who are logged in or not (apparently...
View ArticleThe Process is the Tool
Process – the way you approach, collaborate, organize, and manage an initiative – is the most important tool for the team. It’s how you uncover opportunity. It’s how you solve problems. It’s how you...
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Are Art Directed Web Articles Out of Style?
Good ol’ Chris Coyier revisits his thoughts on the subject of “Art Directed” articles – one-off article designs that give individual styling to one particular article. All the rage a few years ago but...
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