by Gene Crawford | Apr 13, 2010 | Education, Gallery, Screencast Review
Submitted by Jesse Guerrero, @userinterface. Designer & Developer. Well, this is one of the most complicated sites of my career. The overall brand is conservative so there wasn’t much room for going over board. There are some custom illustrations and nice...
by Gene Crawford | Apr 6, 2010 | Education, Entertainment, Gallery, Screencast Review
We really like the new design of history.com, Jay and I did a screen cast review of it. The image slider on the home page is nicely done, has plenty of eye candy to get you into the story that’s featured. The “this day in history” block is a nice...
by Gene Crawford | Mar 19, 2010 | Education, Gallery
We don’t feature a lot of university websites on UMS, not sure why, maybe it’s that a lot of them are just huge and feel cumbersom to review. Not this one! I really like the header area of this website, the navigation is broken into three distinct sections...
by Gene Crawford | Mar 2, 2010 | Church/Religious, Education, Gallery
Submitted by Lizy Gershenzon, @ejgershenzon. Designer. There’s something to be said for making a nice clean layout and using web safe fonts how they’re supposed to be used. This is just a nicely done, workhorse type design in my opinion. Good grid and...
by Gene Crawford | Feb 26, 2010 | Education, Gallery
Pretty straight-forward design. I like the way it harkens back to a time that dates with the main illustration/portrait of Darwin. They type supports this and is fun at the same time. The illustrations are all very nice and fitting as well as the coloring chosen. It...
by Gene Crawford | Jan 11, 2010 | Education, Gallery
I think this website has somewhat of a corporate undertone, with the use of blue and black and the clean tight lines/grid. It his quite well organized and really easy to get to what your seeking for. I quite like the design, it’s a nice blend of using whitespace...
