Design, in its many myriad forms, as a mirror to the cultural and political climate is not a new idea. From architecture to fashion, all forms of creation are in some way the result of the circumstances that produced them. In fact, many of these forms are so tied to the zeitgeist, that they become ...
Though much of shopping is still taking place in bricks and mortar stores, consumers are spending a substantial amount of time exploring and researching online. Luxury brand eCommerce websites continue to be important point of interaction for luxury shoppers.
Today grid-based design is, as ever, ubiquitous in our society. With a bunch of CSS-based grid frameworks available (see here), it has become much more efficient for designers to build and design beautiful responsive site layout with greatly reduced development time.
Angelo Flaccavento - a fine writer and fashion connoisseur with a sociological approach to the game - recently dropped an interesting article on fashion’s fascination with storytelling.
Finance websites including online banking and corporate sites are often complex to design and build, given the plethora of information and content involved. While there’s a plenty to cover when it comes to finance web design, we’re focusing on key competitive differentiators that will potentially set a brand from another: branding, innovation and social.
Truly engaging lifestyle eCommerce websites serve as the hub for informative, educative and entertaining contents that encourage customers to come back again and again. So here are two more excellent examples of what lifestyle eCommerce should look like:
''Web design has no future’', according to Mashable. A bold statement to make? While it has brought to many designers’ attention, it doesn’t mean that web design has become irrelevant. So is web design dead? To balance the debate, we'll need to look at the other end of the argument.
Whether you are opening a new website, or need to convert your old site onto an open source platform, making that leap to a new CMS isn’t something to make light of. You can go with the tried and tested giants, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, or maybe the more designer customizable LightCMS or Squarespace. There are ...
Is UX killing creativity? UX design is one of the hottest IT jobs today. In the United States alone, there were around 150,000 UX-related jobs by the end of 2013 (Unicorn Institute). UX design delivers consumers’ expectations and minimises ‘the unexpected’. So UX is all about creating a seamless user experience. But then wouldn’t all ...
Subtle and powerful. Typography has both elements. Most of us overlook the effect of typography on our perception, but it is something that actually makes designers go crazy. Why? Because any subtle change in it can make a powerful impact. ‘Web design is 95% typography’, according to the people at iA. Some disagree with them, but ...
