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Push Back Against Information Overload To Design A Better Website

Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 by Drew McManus

There’s a terrific article in the 9/3/2013 edition of SmashingMagazine.com by Adrian Taylor that examines the continued value in embracing flat design, a topic we’ve been exploring here over the past few months. The especially useful point in Taylor’s article is how the flat design movement is driving down information overload. As a constantly connected culture, we deal with a nonstop flow of information, some of it important and relevant, most …

Get Pumped Up Over Flat Design

Tuesday, August 27th, 2013 by Drew McManus

On 7/23/2013, Adaptistration published an article about “Authentic Design,” which examined the growing design shift away from skeuomorphic and stylistic excesses (such as using realistic page turn effects for digital pages) in favor of what is colloquially known as flat design. Since then, I’ve been looking for a way to incorporate flat design into Adaptistration then measure the resulting impact and I’m pleased to say that the recent round of efforts …

When It Comes To Email, Think Big By Going Small

Thursday, August 1st, 2013 by Drew McManus

There’s a worthwhile article by Luke Wroblewski from 7/1/2013 at his tech blog (h/t Thomas Cott) which examines the impact of mobile device usage on email by becoming the primary point of contact for most recipients. Wroblewski’s post is short and sweet, mostly sourced statistics; but what it should do is get you thinking about how you design your email blasts. And that’s a good thing since some performing arts org …

Authenticity Matters

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013 by Drew McManus

There is a terrific article by Dmitry Fadeyevin the 7/16/2013 edition of SmashingMagazine.com that focuses on what the author describes as a shift away from “skeuomorphic and stylistic excesses,” or attempts to make an object copy the design of a similar artifact in another material. For example, using realistic page turn effects for digital pages. Fadeyev’s article is a breath of fresh air and timely in light of Apple releasing a …

Take My Money, Please

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013 by Drew McManus

There’s an interesting post by Columbus, Ohio based patron Heather Brown that chronicles her recent experiences donating to arts organizations via their respective websites. The opening narrative describes a frustrating experience where an attempt to make a small, single donation was stymied by a host of hurdles in the online giving process. The impetus for her charitable venture was a moving concert experience, but everything from required registration, through process dead …