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Should Reading Behavior Affect Your Design?

Most online readers scan only the first sentences when taking in large chunks of content in an F-pattern. Should your design adapt?

Content Design Is Crucial For Websites

InContent, Design

A content-first mindset combines content strategy and UX/UI writing. Because the content always dictates your design.

Avoid Graphic Design Beginner Mistakes

InDesign

Content and design matter. Can you pull that off by yourself without creative design experience from the get-go? Sure you can.

Should You Use Image Carousels?

InDesign

Rotating images on websites are ineffective at delivering content and don’t provide a good user experience. Here are better options to try.

Good Stories Make Great Infographics

InAll, Content, Design

Infographics are an important and effective tool to digest and make sense of the vast amounts of data we gather. Here's how to get it right.

Cross-Cultural Design: The Web Without Borders

InAll, Content, Design

The web has no borders. And yet, most of us have a site audience persona in mind that fits our cultural background when designing websites.

cheap vs pro chart. Pick two: good and fast won't be cheap, fast and cheap won't be good and cheap and good won't be fast.

Building Your Website: Going Cheap vs. Going Pro

InAll, Content, Design, Tech

Building a website, you can choose between DIY website builders, cheap designers or professionals. There’s no one size fits all. You get what you pay.

You Need Content-First Design

InAll, Content, Design, Tech

Without content, you don’t have a website; you’re not being heard. Without quality content, your website is a beautiful vessel that won't convert.

Why Use WordPress for Content-Rich Websites?

InAll, Content, Design, Tech

Why WordPress? Because it fuels simple 1-page blogs AND it handles enormous fully-featured commercial and publishing endeavors.

Bad Form Design & Wasted Time: Resetting Passwords

InAll, Content, Design, Tech

How easy is it to change passwords or delete accounts? Root canal is less painful. The reason: Poorly designed forms provide dismal user experience.

A clustered work desk with many outdated tech gadgets in 1980 next to a clean work space with only a laptop and a phone in 2014

Sometimes, the shoemaker has no shoes. Being a web designer, you’d think I would take care of my own website first. Wrong. Twenty years after I hand-coded the very first iteration of my website, I finally brought it to the 21st century.