Feedback plays a crucial role in any successful outcome, but not all feedback is constructive. Poorly structured design reviews and poor team dynamics can have...more.
My experience as a designer has been a multifaceted, collaborative, and sometimes high-pressure journey to engage with different challenges using a variety of methodologies. While...more.
Fasten your seatbelts! Because while many of us were raised during a generation of “click-it-or-ticket” public awareness campaigns, the true story of how seat belts...more.
Recently, 8th Light University had the pleasure of hosting UX designer Rachel Wendte. She taught both designers and developers alike how to boost learning through...more.
I'm happy to announce 8th Light's freshly re-branded design department, The Design Studio. 8th Light has always been passionate about building great software, and we...more.
With great power comes great responsibility. And as our lives become more entwined with technology, it’s a designer’s responsibility to ensure that each experience remains...more.
Combining The Fibonacci Sequence And Typography Design Is Communication Design is separated from other visual disciplines by the emphasis it places on communication: a designer's...more.
In December of 2012 HTML5 gained Candidate Recommendation status by the W3C, and with it comes a large number of updates that browsers are officially...more.
Vertical Rhythm is simply when a body of text is aligned to evenly spaced horizontal lines (think of your lined paper from grade school), making...more.
Quite often typography is one of most ignored aspects of website design. Poor typography can make your website feel bland or boring, and at worst...more.
When choosing typefaces, we need to be cautious. As typographers, we are responsible to our readers and to our texts, so it’s imperative that we...more.
Readability relates to those important typographic factors that are not rooted solely in the DNA of letterforms. In this realm, the typographer rejoices. For it...more.
When we judge the usability, or clarity, of a text passage, we usually do so according to two different criteria: legibility and readability. And while...more.
On Day two of Type Camp California we were given a short “homework” assignment: write a six word autobiography containing your name, at least one...more.
While I've been fortunate enough to attend a few great conferences during my career, I've always left wishing for a little more. Having grown tired...more.
Forms. Does anybody like filling them out? They can be annoying, maddening, time-consuming and sometimes, yes, even soul-crushing. Yet, everywhere we look on the web...more.
Last week, I wrote a brief article that demonstrated how to build a form with well structured, semantic markup. In that article, I started with...more.
In a web saturated with numerous opinion blogs, gallery showcases, tutorial sites and technical references, where should an aspiring web developer go to seek knowledge...more.
I am a trained sculptor and have always been comfortable being creative within the constraints of the three-dimensional realm. Ironically, I now find myself gainfully...more.