The $300 Million Button
How Changing a Button Increased a Site’s Annual Revenues by $300 Million
Radar #116
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A Fireside Chat with Peter Barth: The Iron Yard approach to business
A few months ago, our CEO Peter Barth gave a “fireside chat” at a Southern Series Startup event, hosted by Launch TN, The Iron Yard and Converge SE. During the talk, Peter gave attendees a behind-the-scenes peek at his approach to successfully growing a business. Many of his insights are at the core of what […]
What Kind of Design Work Should I do?
A Flow Chart for Designers
Why BPG will replace GIFs and not only
BPG (Better Portable Graphics) is a new image format with the purpose to replace JPEG image format when quality or file size is an issue. This means that BPG not only is way smaller than JPEG but also delivers a better quality. And that’s not all! It also supports animations!
A History of Typeface Styles & Type Classification
Typography is a complicated subject to learn, but starting with the history of type styles is a great way to gain an understanding of why there’s so many fonts, and why they look so different!
Starbucks Android Material Design
The evolution of Starbucks digital products for Google’s new design framework.
Design Insights From LEGO
I recently had the privilege of meeting with the talented designers at LEGO, in what we’ll call a knowledge exchange. In this article I’ll share some of my insights from our conversations.
12 Rules for Professional JavaScript in 2015
JavaScript is hard. It moves so fast that it’s often unclear whether you’re “doing it wrong” at any given moment. Some days it feels like the bad parts outweigh the good parts. Yet there’s no point in fighting it. JavaScript is eating the world. So we might as well do it right.
Web design is now completely boring
In 2015, it feels like web design has become a lot more boring. The internet grew up, HTML5 came along and unleashed new possibilities… but we lost a lot of the fun along the way.
How To Work With SVG Text
SVG text offers the best of both worlds. It’s rendered like other graphic elements so you can do things like add strokes and fills that you can add to shapes, lines, and arrowheads. It’s also packaged as XML character data, which means it’s real text.