Design

Mediacurrent’s glossary of web design terms helps designers and developers more easily collaborate with each other and communicate clearly.

​

We're proud to announce that Mediacurrent has earned an AVA Digital Award for our design work in partnership with Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. The recently launched Drupal 8 site was recognized by AVA Digital, an awards program that recognizes outstanding achievements by creative professionals.

Mediacurrent's W³ Website Award trophy shelf is growing!

We're proud to announce that we've scooped up four awards in the past three years for our development, design, and strategy work. Judged annually by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, the W³ Awards honors excellence on the web and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning websites. 

In this 5-part series, take a deep dive into universal design concepts in the context of creating component-based systems for dynamic web content. Get a birds-eye view of the inner workings of user experience (UX) architecture. Brand strategy, user psychology, objective methodology, and data-driven decisions come together, guided by timeless fundamental ideas, to construct today’s digital journeys.

A lot of effort goes into engaging your visitors to ‘Sign-up’ or ‘Contact’ you. You send them a warm and fuzzy invitation to complete the form, tell them all the great reasons why they should complete the form… but who likes to complete a form?  Guarantee a smooth sign-up process and increase the completion rate of your webforms with these six tips. 

#1 Make it Flow

Before you begin designing that web form, it is always good to create a User Flowchart. Working to establish the form completion process from start to finish, a flowchart will help you: 

Have you ever thought about different social groupings? Why you like the brands that you like? Recently, a man said to me, “my daughter is an iPhone girl, but I’m an Android guy.” What makes one person an Android person and another an iPhone person? 

Recently, The Guardian Insurance Company made the strategic business decision to start marketing and selling their products directly to consumers. While Guardian has been around for nearly 160 years (WOW!) most consumer experiences with their products stem from employer insurance coverage offerings.

Ever wonder how websites go from initial design to code? What steps and tools are involved? What are the common pitfalls and how can you avoid them? In this blog post, I will recap the process our designers and front-end developers take to when creating a new website design for our clients. Hopefully, this will give you a little more insight into Mediacurrent’s methodology and in turn help you develop a more robust workflow of your own.

Build the Foundation

Before design even begins, there are a few key items to set the project up for success:

At Mediacurrent, we hear a lot of questions — from the open source community and from our customers — about website accessibility. What are the must-have tools, resources, and modules? How often should I test? To address those and other top FAQs, we hosted a webinar with our Accessibility Team. Below is a transcript of the questions we received.