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Entries tagged: design
Portland Women in Tech State of the Community Results
15 Aug 2018
This year, we partnered with Portland Women in Tech to create the data visualization site for their 2018 community survey. The results are now live.
Beyond Support and Maintenance: Pac Global
20 Oct 2017
We pride ourselves on building long-term relationships with our clients. Here's the story of how we partnered with an international moving insurance company, Pac Global, to maintain and eventually redesign their app.
Clutch's Best Portland Web Development Team
21 Sep 2017
We recently achieved the top spot in Clutch.co's list of Portland's Best Web Developers. Here's how that list is created and why we're particularly proud of this accomplishment.
The 2017 Portland Tech Diversity Survey Results
20 Jul 2017
Planet Argon has been involved in the annual Portland Tech Diversity Survey since its inception two years ago. For the second year, we designed and built the site displaying the data from this survey. Check it out!
10 Sources for Free Commercial Web Icons
31 May 2017
Icons are a major part of web design. The right icons can really pull a web page together. Here are 10 sources you can reference when you’re in need of free icons for your commercial site, no matter what style you're looking for.
My 20 Favorite Sketch Shortcuts and Tips
16 May 2017
Sketch is our design app of choice at Planet Argon. Here are 20 of my favorite Sketch keyboard shortcuts, tips, and tricks to make your design workflows quicker and easier.
Redesigning Our Testimonials Page
9 May 2017
What started as a simple task became a more complicated redesign. Follow along as I go through the entire process of updating our Testimonials page.
12 Principles for UX and Motion
18 Apr 2017
If you're anything like me, you've spent several hours of your life scrolling through Medium articles. From think pieces to bold proclamations, to tear downs of other Medium articles, the network is home to some amazing (and not so amazing) content. But every once in a while you come across a piece so well-composed, engaging, and informative that you have to share it and get others opinions on it as well. For me this month, that was this article from Issara Willenskomer on motion-based UX design.
In it, Willenskomer breaks down how motion supports usability, then dives into 12 individual principles, like transformation (a circle evolving into a square, for example), and overlay (a foreground object sliding over a background object) to name a few. Each principle has detailed descriptions, along with gifs to demonstrate the motion on a website or app.
If you're a designer, you might not agree with all of the principles described in this piece. But odds are, you'll find a bit of inspiration and may want to bookmark this one for later. The next time you're thinking on movement for a new design, try giving this another read through.
What are your thoughts on the 12 motion principles described above? Leave a comment and let us know!
7 Healthcare Websites That Don't Suck (and Why)
13 Apr 2017
Healthcare impacts a wide range of people around the globe. So why does the experience of dealing with your health online often totally suck? Here are seven websites who make healthcare the healthcare user experience a breeze through stellar design.