"Ahhhh! Finally our own space to talk about websites,
design, programming, SEO and just about anything else.
To our family and friends... we promise to put it all here instead. :) "
"Ahhhh! Finally our own space to talk about websites,
design, programming, SEO and just about anything else.
To our family and friends... we promise to put it all here instead. :) "
August Interactive partner Tomas Gajar’s design work was featured this week on Smashing Magazine. Tomas designed a 91-piece vector web icon set for our end of year holiday ‘freebie’ for friends and colleagues. The set featured many of our favorite icons – all scalable, editable and free for personal or commercial use.
Posted by Anna Martin
in Agency Updates, Design, For Our Clients
You see it all the time—that little orange square on websites that says “RSS.” So what is it? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and represents a group of web feed formats that are used to publish online work that is frequently updated. Most commonly you may see this in reference to blogs or websites, but it can also be used with news articles or even audio and video links.
By subscribing to an RSS feed from a blogger or website that you like, you will automatically receive information from that blog (or website) whenever the information is updated. An RSS reader in your browser or on your mobile device can be used to get all your daily updates without having to visit individual favorite sites on a daily basis.
Posted by Anna Martin
in Design
A colleague of mine asked me recently to give him my thoughts on intuitive user interface design. What he got was an earful. Intuitive to whom?
The entire culture of information exchange was irrevocably changed with the invention of the internet. We are now a population of information consumers with a voracious appetite for instant communication gratification. As the expectation of expediency continues to increase exponentially (E3) with each generation, we are more and more aware as website users of how quickly we can find and access what we want. We express our pleasure of course by lingering on internet realty that delivers; and conversely cast our votes of displeasure by immediately leaving a website that doesn’t deliver within the first few seconds. And don’t think no one’s watching. With millions of these votes being cast every second, it’s no wonder user interface developers are infatuated with terms like ‘user intuition’. Continue reading »
Posted by Anna Martin
in Design
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