The 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey is open. Add your voice!
16 Mar 2026
Redesigning a Ruby on Rails application is easy on paper. Making it work with real systems is harder. Here’s how Rails teams align design visions with reality.
29 Jan 2026
A practical look at why website redesigns stall and how choosing the right lead at each stage keeps work moving forward.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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