Design

Want to reach a broader audience? You are not alone! Outside of the digital space, savvy planning can ensure that a product or service is usable by as many humans as possible by removing barriers and creating intuitive tools and welcoming spaces. Although websites offer a virtual rather than a physical experience, there is much to be learned from environmental design.

Have you ever participated in a ‘brainstorming session’ for a new design, development, or sales project? How did it go? Did you come together as a team and find a solution successfully or did you talk yourself into a list of dreams that could only be accomplished someday along with the hope of a few miracles? The goal of this article is to provide insight and clarity on how you can use the ideation process to effectively generate the next big idea for your upcoming design, development, or sales challenge. 

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Design Discovery is the most important first step in a website redesign project as it will give the project a much greater opportunity for success. This first phase is essentially a series of questions whose answers will provide insight that facilitate the needs and goals of the primary stakeholders as well as the visitors of the website. This is the time to uncover the many variables that may be at play so we can work together to find the most appropriate solutions for the best redesign possible.

Happy Friday everyone. On this our 50th episode, we are happy to welcome Becky Cierpich to talk more about her great blog post 5 Tools for Establishing an Accessible Web Color Palette.

The five resources are:

As we begin a fresh, brand-spanking-new year, several UX design practices and technologies stand out as the most exciting and relevant. While they are not all necessarily bleeding edge or super trendy, these considerations are becoming more and more vital to our clients and will be at the forefront in the year to come and beyond. Here’s an overview of what we’re watching, how the UX landscape is shifting, its impact on marketing and consumer experience, and what it means to you!

User experience counts in today's global, digital landscape: every dollar spent on UX design yields up to $100 in return.

In our latest webinar, Mediacurrent's VP of Sales Josh Linard and Lingotek's VP of Marketing Calvin Scharffs shared some UX and CX strategies to boost global revenue and conversions.

They offer practical advice to enhance the digital experience that your organization delivers to customers, employees and other stakeholders - and the right way to measure it.
 

Happy Friday everyone. This episode our newest team member steps up right away to talk about his experience at Design4Drupal in Boston.

The internet is changing the way we think, work, and play. In the second event of an executive roundtable series, we teamed up with Acquia and Lingotek to create a guide to understanding the return on investment of UX design.

The event drew attendees from nonprofit, higher ed, and large enterprise organizations in the Atlanta area for a lively discussion and Q&A. If you missed us, here’s a recap including the presentation deck and video recording.

Our “ROI of UX” presentation covered these key points:

Slideshows, sliders, carousels: no matter what you call them, in terms of web design they are just evil. Do a quick Google search and you will see that most frontend developers and UX/UI designers can agree on this point and have been talking about it for years. But why do we still constantly see them? Part of the issue is that slideshows, especially in the hero region, are so ubiquitous that many clients see them as necessary and keep asking for them. They have essentially become a “home page standard.”