At Mixd we’ve been designing and building websites with ‘one-web’ principles in mind for over two years now so we were delighted when Adobe recently announced ‘Edge Reflow’. It’s a new piece of software that should make our creative design process more fluid. Why? Because it means we can design on screen then see what happens [...]
The Brugge Museum identity is wonderful and we wanted to share it with everyone. Please read on…
It was great to receive this really positive feedback on the South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust website today. We are particularly happy as it perfectly reflects all the recommendations we made to the client at the beginning of the project. I just wanted to say what a fantastic website you have! My mother has AMD [...]
If company had asked you to paint their new offices with a bunch of murals and offered to pay you a few thousand dollars or the equivalent in company shares, you would probably have gone for the cash, right? Well that’s what I thought until I found out that the company behind this was Facebook! [...]
Earlier this month Phil and I headed off to Nottingham for round 2 of the New Adventures Conference. Last year was a massive success and a great way to open a new conference, which is aimed at being more affordable than most. This year Colly (now working with 2011 speaker Greg Wood on board) tried [...]
We’ve been working a lot on building responsive sites lately. Sites which are flexible to the device they may be viewed upon, and change accordingly. For many reasons, it’s good to start small and work up to a full “desktop” version and this means it is vital we consider the site on smaller devices early [...]
So it’s the end of the year and as many have been proclaiming, 2011 was the year of mobile. Well it’s certainly booming, as outlined by Bob a few months back. The proof Having been made temporarily flatless a week ago (long story!) and ending up sleeping on my mate’s sofa for a while, the [...]
Design flourishes within constraints The more a design team knows about the users of a site, the better they can meet their needs and design something that appeals to those users beyond the aesthetic appearance of a site. Something that looks lovely but doesn’t work for the user is pointless online. The fundamental principles of user centred [...]
This has nothing to do with web design but if you are a web designer, training to become a web designer, would like to be a web designer or just like to keep abreast of the latest technologies and apps us web geeks are using then you might find this interesting. Then again you might [...]
I’m sure we’ve all heard the dreaded line before. As a long-standing joke in the design industry; when a client says about your design – “it just doesn’t…pop!” What exactly is “pop” anyway? How can it be quantified? Surely it means different things to different people? To me, it simply means grabs your attention. And [...]
A recent new business win for Boston Spa based Oasis School of Human Relations gave Mixd an opportunity to work with a great new client and to work in some exciting and different ways… The project brief was to supply a brand update and to apply that new logo to a completely redeveloped website. However, [...]
Last week Phil and I attended the New Adventures In Web Design Conference (#naconf) at the Albert Hall in Nottingham. A new conference for 2011 it was billed as being “carefully curated; chock-full of integrity, opinion, and fresh content, with an emphasis on shaking things up and challenging convention” by curator and organiser Simon Collison, [...]
The area we are talking about here is website typography – any type elements on a website, including the body text For a long time, everyone has talked of ‘web safe’ fonts and a large part of website design and copy styling was often limited to the basic font libraries on a Mac or PC (Arial, [...]
Picture the scene if you will… I’m on my way out to meet my mates. Looking rather dapper if I do say so myself. We are off to see a club DJ, but I need an extra tenner for my ticket. I’m running well late. The taxi’s waiting. Now on with the story… I dashed [...]
Many people are familiar with the newspaper practice of maximising reader interest by placing premium content ‘above the fold’. The design of a newspaper broadsheet requires the paper to be folded leaving the lower half out of site and therefore unreadable at a glance. The notion of the fold has carried over to web design [...]
