Dmitry Fadeyev guides us through a brief history of “flat” design.
Is your design authentic?
17 Jul 2013
Upcoming Modern Web Dev Workshop in Seattle!
16 Jul 2013
We’re thrilled to announce the date of our Second Modern Web Development Workshop. This time we are headed for Seattle!
IxDA Portland July | Microinteractions: Designing with Details
11 Jul 2013
IxDA is a global network dedicated to the professional practice of Interaction Design and the Portland chapter usually meets on the third Tuesday of each month. July’s event focused on microinteractions, and we were fortunate to have the author of the recently published book on the topic, Dan Saffer, discuss these ‘small moments that add up to a delightful customer experience’.
A half-baked defense of carousels
11 Jul 2013
Recently, the web community has been sharing a link that argues that carousels don’t work.
A visit from Portland Homeless Family Solutions
9 Jul 2013
Earlier today, our good friends from Portland Homeless Family Solutions stopped by to meet our team.
Goodbye Doug
3 Jul 2013
If you attempt to make sense of Engelbart’s design by drawing correspondences to our present-day systems, you will miss the point, because our present-day systems do not embody Engelbart’s intent. Engelbart hated our present-day systems.
Doug, we'll miss you. Thank you for opening up our eyes.
Webvisions 2013 Post 2 - More Sketchnotes from the Conference
2 Jul 2013
Back at the end of May, I went to the 2013 Webvisions Conference. I had decided that I would use the conference as an opportunity to take some “Sketchnotes” and post them to the blog as my contribution of what I learned at WVs this year. My post last month was on “The Art of Explanation by Lee LeFever”. This month, I have 2 new sketch notes that I have uploaded. .
Putting pen to paper... by season
2 Jul 2013
We look back at all of our design and development clients since 2006 and breakdown, by month and season, when they made a decision to hire us.
CreativeMornings June
28 Jun 2013
In my role as a Business Developer at Planet Argon, it’s important to keep connected to Portland’s creative and business community. One of the ways I attempt to gather local intelligence and randomly bump into interesting strangers from other companies, is to regularly attend several of the awesome networking type events around town. There are many to choose from, but this post will focus specifically on CreativeMornings.
Is it worth the complexity?
24 Jun 2013
Kris Gale of Yammer talks about the costs of introducing complexity into your application.
While I agree with many points, i do worry that sometimes there is too much of a disconnect between Engineers and the Product Owners. If you’re in the position of asking someone to build something… are you explaining why it needs to be built?
If you’re the person being asked to build something… are you asking why?