It’s great to find art that you love. It’s always inspiring as a designer. One of the great things about the development of social media is that it allows consumers and artists to engage more closely. Artists can reach out... [read more]
It’s no great surprise that typography is one of the most important aspects of web design. Over the last couple of years the options for effectively displaying a wide variety of fonts in different ways have grown enormously. Yet the... [read more]
Web designers like showcasing web design. There are HTML5 galleries, CSS3 galleries, blog posts that highlight lists of “best of…” ecommerce, photo portfolio, typography focused, blue themed sites. If you follow a lot of web designers on Twitter, like I... [read more]
It’s very easy to spend time looking at other great websites. That’s useful, but if that’s our sole source of inspiration then web design is going to become increasingly generic, however advanced our technical ability becomes. Web design is an... [read more]
When I was designing Shiny Toy Robots, I thought momentarily about including a link to date based blog archives. We’ve all see these, the list of months in the sidebar of a blog that links to past articles. They’re still... [read more]
This morning I tested out Shiny Toy Robots on my Droid. It loaded quickly, was completely functional, and generally offered a pretty solid user experience. Mobile technology has advanced a long way, with smartphones now the norm, and mobile web... [read more]
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