Organizing Inspiration
Collecting inspiration is an important and strangely challenging task for most creatives — ourselves included. Jeremy shares a few nice web apps for your idea gathering.
Read MoreBrowsing Design should enhance usability.
Slanted Elements with CSS3
Adam walks through some unique challenges of slanted elements, especially those with anchor target areas, and some CSS3 magic to solve them.
Read MoreBen and Jeremy Recently Featured on Leading Blogs
Ben's recent article on Web Standards Sherpa and Jeremy's on Web Design Tuts Plus are now live. Ben introduces responsive retrofitting while Jeremy discusses typographic hierarchy. Both are great reads.
Read MoreContent And Style Prototyping the Rebuild
Jeremy and Drew review prototyping work done so far in the Sparkbox site rebuild, including our style prototype and content prototype.
Read MoreRebranding Sparkbox
Jän and Jeremy discuss the Sparkbox rebrand in conjunction with our site overhaul. New icons, typefaces, and colors are everywhere, but all the team really wants is sweet t-shirts.
Read MoreDesign Inspiration Roundup: Fall 2012
In the process of redesigning the Sparkbox website, Jeremy shares inspiration he's gathered from across the web.
Read MoreCross-Width Consistency
Are off-canvas layouts a shiny new tool ripe for abuse? Ben poses a question for debate.
Read MoreOur New Responsive Design Deliverable: The Style Prototype
Style Prototypes can potentially save a lot of hours — and sometimes headache — in the design process. Jeremy walks through the new tool developing in the Sparkbox office.
Read MoreSingle or Multiple Design Deliverables
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a successful site design? Jeremy provides our take on this challenging, age-old client services question.
Read MoreTypography Tools for the Web
Plugins, bookmarklets, and jQuery – oh my. Check out Jeremy's roundup of helpful typography tools designers and developers can both love.
Read MoreThe Web and Branding
Jeremy Loyd presses the often overlooked issue of brand in the web space.
Read MoreFinding Our Place In This (Web) World
Drew explores what makes web design unique and the reflection we all go through to find our place in it.
Read MoreSparkbox’s Ben Callahan Speaking at CodeMash 2.0.1.2
Ben's session, "Hands-On Responsive and Adaptive Web Design," will be included in their design/UX track.
Read MoreBring Your Problems and Check Your Solutions at the Door
Rob Harr talks about our greatest service to clients, problem solving.
Read MoreHumility: The Lost Art of Design
We talk a lot about not letting individual design elements overpower the overall project, but is your ego overpowering your sense of design?
Read MoreQuick and Dirty Prototyping
Prototyping is a great way to visually describe how a concept will play out in a final product. Not only is it easy to do, it's fairly quick.
Read MorejQuery Custom Select Box Plugin
Our incredibly talented designer Ryan Clark has a tendency to create these really cool looking select box UIs. They're awesome, except for the fact that they're impossible to style. So we decided to create our own that fit the needs of both us and our clients.
Read MoreInformation Overload
When designing usable forms, the question of "how should I display this information?" must be preceded by "should I display this information?"
Read MoreIterative Design
Iterative design is not just a one man show. It's a see-saw process that will add balance to any project.
Read MoreSelecting a Website Design Firm: An Introduction
How do you find a company that you can trust, that knows their stuff, that’s easy to work with, and who can give you results? There are a few things you can do to qualify the companies you’re considering working with.
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