Tag Archives | web design

What Is The Future Of Design? (Hint: it’s not the web)

What’s the future of design you ask? Taking game design concepts and ideas, and applying it to all other areas of design, from products to websites, to make experiences more engaging, addictive, and visceral. This week USA Today’s Mike Snider wrote an article: “Social sites help casual games reach the next level” where he talked [...]

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RockYou Showcases Gen Y Design Practices

RockYou.com is a top site for teens, and their Facebook apps are some of the most popular. As I alluded to, I interviewed Jia Shen, CTO and co-founder of RockYou, about how he and his team target young consumers online. Jia had great insights to share, and a real knack for clearly articulating the way [...]

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Digital Agency Sites Suck

When a quick-witted VP at Forrester was once asked why Forrester’s website is so awful, despite us having a multi-million dollar business in helping clients with their sites, the VP said: “the cobbler’s kids always have the worst shoes.” But should this be true of firms that actually make web sites? For a few years [...]

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The coolest shyt I’ve ever seen: Modernista’s website

Modernista! is a Boston-based full service agency with a Web site that puts those of most large interactive agencies to shame. It evokes an incredulous response when you first open it up — “is this really a website???” The fully functional left hand navigation menu brings you to the agency’s portfolio not by linking you, [...]

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