Archive for the ‘design’ Category



In Defense of Flashturbation

June 10th, 2009 | Web Sites, design | Matt | 2 Comments

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: “Don’t use Flash OMG! It’s sooooo tacky and overdone!”. OK, so honestly most of the time I’m not going to argue. I do think, however, that Flash has gotten a bad rap recently. We need to do more than just lay off the use of Flash, we need [...]



Book Review: Thinking With Type

March 30th, 2009 | Books, design | Matt | No Comments

If you’ve been reading the blog, or following my tweets, you probably know that I’ve been on a design kick lately. One of the specific areas of design that’s really got me interested is typography. I’ve started reading a few typography blogs (that will be listed after the review) and am beginning to realize how [...]



When Your Homepage Is Useless

March 11th, 2009 | design | Matt | 2 Comments

Quick thought today. There’s a lot of sites out there, ones that I visit regularly, that I don’t think I ever hit the home page. When Google tells us where to go, and bookmarks take us back there, is the homepage really what it used to be? What do you think?