Designing Meaningful Animation – Val Head
Understanding how use animation effectively can make us better designers. But, not everyone agrees with that sentiment… What people are afraid of is an entire internet of content flipping in and sliding and swirling like gochat’s website. But what it also could...
Designing for Performance – Lara Hogan
Performance is user experience… and users expect a 2 second or less load time. After 3 seconds, 40% will abandon your site. They recently did some tests on their site relating to performance: On ETSY they ran a test where they added 160kb of hidden images for mobile...
The Art of the Sell – Jaimee Newberry
She came up with 2 rules of design when she was a professor: Rule 1: Kill Your Darlings – You have to kill a lot of things you put a lot of soul and time and care and research into. We grow attached to our work and when someone wants us to change...Practical Branding – Sarah Parmenter
She started as a designer at eBay, and was the person we now all hate – the person who was devaluing our industry. She looks back on those days and hates herself… Her company, You Know Who is now focused on helping celebrities and big brands with their...
