Design

Rachel Wendte on How to Boost Learning Through Finding Your “Design Foil”

• Eva PenzeyMoog
• 29 Jan 2019
• Design
• Community

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.

Introducing The Design Studio

• Stephanie Briones
• 20 Nov 2014
• Design

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.

Keep Left, Right?

• Nick Meccia
• 25 Aug 2014
• Design

"How many more hours to the lake?" "I don't know, like, three? Something like that." My dad maneuvers the van out of the Ruby Tuesday...more.

On Designing By Hand

• Nick Meccia
• 08 Aug 2014
• Design

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.

Designing Irrationally

• Nick Meccia
• 23 Aug 2013
• Design

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.

It's the Small Things: Browser Tabs and Usability

• Ben Voss
• 05 Aug 2013
• Design

One tool of user experience and usability intrigues me and I never see any discussion about it online: the browser tab. They are simple and...more.

HTML5 Form Elements

• Chris Peak
• 14 Mar 2013
• Design
• Web Development

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 In Typography

• Chris Peak
• 30 Dec 2012
• Design

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.

CSS Typographic Flourishes

• Chris Peak
• 27 Dec 2012
• Design
• Web Development

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.

Design Craftsman Swap

• Stephanie Briones
• 12 Nov 2012
• Design
• Craftsmanship

My first ever craftsman swap was with Relevance a little over a month ago. I went to Durham for a week and Relevence's Kevin Altman...more.

Designing in the Browser: Web Inspector Prototyping

• Stephanie Briones
• 08 Aug 2012
• Design
• Web Development

I'd like to tell you a little about one of my favorite tools; my browser's web inspector. I'm often asked what I like to use...more.

The Many Ways In Which Past You Could Be Ruining The Future Internet

• Nick Meccia
• 24 Jul 2012
• Design
• Web Development

Hey! Younger Self! Yes, you— eating Cocoa Puffs and watching Dragonball Z in your pajamas! I am you from the future, and I am here...more.

R(a|ela)tional Design

• Billy Whited
• 28 Oct 2011
• Design

In my last post, I talked about Expressive HTML and the importance of writing your markup from the content out. This idea—that you start at...more.

A Brief Primer on Typeface Selection

• Billy Whited
• 25 Aug 2011
• Design

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

• Billy Whited
• 23 Aug 2011
• Design

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.

Legibility

• Billy Whited
• 05 Aug 2011
• Design

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.

What is the purpose of typography?

• Billy Whited
• 29 Jul 2011
• Design

You might be wondering why you’d bother to gain an understanding type: what purpose does it serve? What’s the point? Set it and forget it!...more.

What is Typography?

• Billy Whited
• 26 Jul 2011
• Design

Let's first take a moment to talk briefly about what typography is not about. To be clear: it‘s not just about choosing pretty typefaces. To...more.

Type Camp California Day 4

• Billy Whited
• 22 Jul 2011
• Design

On day 4 of Type Camp California, our final full day, we devoted the majority of our time to another hand-lettering project. This time, we...more.

Type Camp California Day 3

• Billy Whited
• 15 Jul 2011
• Design

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.

Type Camp California Day 2

• Billy Whited
• 23 Jun 2011
• Design

After having a day and half to gel as a group and get fully immersed in the esoteric and challenging world of type, we hit...more.

Type Camp California Day 1

• Billy Whited
• 20 Jun 2011
• Design

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.

Humane Form Errors

• Billy Whited
• 06 Jun 2011
• Design

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.

Found Type and Graphics

• Billy Whited
• 13 May 2011
• Design

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about keeping inspiration catalogs. In an effort to demonstrate that I practice what I preach, I thought...more.

A Tale of Two Forms (Part 3)

• Billy Whited
• 02 May 2011
• Design
• Web Development

Last week, we took a closer look at some simple “under the hood” changes you can make to your forms to improve their usability and...more.

A Tale of Two Forms (Part 2)

• Billy Whited
• 21 Apr 2011
• Design
• Web Development

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.

A Tale of Two Forms (Part 1)

• Billy Whited
• 14 Apr 2011
• Design
• Web Development

A few weeks ago, my co-workers asked me to demonstrate how to convert a form built using HTML table elements into a more meaningful form...more.

Inspiration Catalogs

• Billy Whited
• 07 Apr 2011
• Design

Inspiration is perishable. And, unfortunately, it often strikes when I least expect it—when I don’t have a pen or pencil handy, or a piece of...more.

The Near Space Endeavor

• Billy Whited
• 30 Mar 2011
• Design

Recently, I’ve been doing a fair amount of blogging about topics related to web design, so I thought it was time for a little artistic...more.

Design Resources for Aspiring Developers

• Billy Whited
• 16 Mar 2011
• Design
• Web Development

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.

Tangible Typography

• Billy Whited
• 09 Mar 2011
• Design

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.