Category: Web Design
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Good Design
Good design is subjective and can’t necessarily be measured. In the late 1970s, Dieter Rams attempted to express what he believed to be the most important principles for design. Here is a brief overview: 1. Good design is innovative Design is constantly evolving and part of that evolution is adapting to new technology. Technological innovations…
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SVG Spriting
SVG sprites offer the same efficiencies as PNG sprites, but they can be trickier to implement because of their innate scalability.
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The Virtual Shelf
Companies that compete on real store shelves know that an eye-catching, easy-to-read label will help them outsell the competitors. In e-commerce space isn’t as precious, but competition still exists. Online retailers can sometimes forget that a virtual shelf is still a shelf.
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Things designers do that make me crazy
I’ve worked with a lot of designers over the years, and there are things they all seem to do that make my job harder than it needs to be. I blame Photoshop. Here’s a short list
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Styling :before
On the desktop version of a shopping cart I was styling I had “column headers” (flexed divs in a non-table layout) that had no relevance when the page was viewed in mobile, since the columns stacked vertically. I needed to remove the desktop headers and apply the labels to each individual element instead. I…
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Making a Custom Icon Font for Your Website
Reducing server calls for image resources will speed up your page load and enhance performance. A great way to do this is to replace sprited icons with mobile-friendly custom fonts.
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Design Fail: A cascade of bad decisions
Design failures usually aren’t the result of one bad decision but rather a chain of mistakes that lead to an inevitable conclusion. When I see something in a design that doesn’t work I try to trace it back to the decisions that caused it.