I had this somewhat long post prepared on Steve Jobs, but instead of talking about how great Steve Jobs was and how much he inspired us, I decided to just let Mr. Jobs inspire you himself. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly [...]

When it comes to text link hovers, some people prefer underlines while others prefer no underline rather a color shift. Typically, the designer-minded friends of mine prefer color shifts rather than underlines because they say the underlines “look too messy”. Then there’s the Google-esque approach which uses a constant underline and a blue link (the [...]

I was reading this article on mega drop down menus and I came across the following two paragraphs that discuss a menu that opens on hover versus one that opens on click. Option 1: Hover Menu Basically, there are two ways to approach the drop-down menu: with either a hover or a click to activate [...]

So, I’m sure most of you have seen the huge changes with Facebook profiles. User statuses (“What am I doing”) took a major backseat in lieu of brief personal intros pieced together by the data you give Facebook. It’s like they changed the entire MO of the site. Instead of the recent status update being [...]

The internet has been around for almost 50 years and since its beginnings as a text-based system, it’s become an essential tool for nearly 2 billion people worldwide. The early 90s presented us with one of the first “modern” browsers: Mosaic. It was extremely mundane, but it allowed everyday users like us to access and [...]

You can spend thousands of dollars on a shiny new brand, but that brand won’t be successful without a good user experience. The user experience is everything. It can either make or break the brand. And whether or not you’re creating a brand for the web or a brand for a product or both, and [...]

JavaScript is ubiquitous on homepages all over the web. Images slide in all directions, things fade in and out and mouse clicks prompt color changes and other cool visual effects. Despite all the Flash-like features, I’m all about simplicity. I believe that most people (myself included) use the web as a tool, whether it’s to [...]

In a digital age where videos are on demand and where information is merely a Google search away, we’ve grown to expect that access to content is a quick, instantaneous one-step process. Nowadays, if it takes too many clicks to get somewhere on a website, users simply click out of your site. In a usability [...]

Recently I had a client send a mockup/wireframe of her idea of what her new site should be like. Most of the time I get offended when clients send me stuff like this because I feel it’s my job to do, not theirs. I came from the school of thought that we the designers were [...]

If I were president of the United States of America there are some issues I’d address first and foremost. Here’s a just a few of those issues: Building number consistency Have you ever been looking for a specific building number only to end up passing it, then wondering how you passed it? We all know [...]