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May 13 2010

Gain Efficiency with Mood Boards

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Published by Joel

Over the past year, we've been exploring mood boards, and how they fit in our visual design process. First, how did we know we even needed them?

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Apr 26 2010

Wireframe Template - A Starting Point

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Published by ken

Throughout our design process there are a number of tools & conventions we use to make it easier to get to the design concept. Here’s a simple template we use to create wireframes, a little faster.

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Feb 4 2010

Drupal for Journalism Educators: Poynter's News University Goes Live

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Published by Justin

Last week, Poynter's NewsU.org, the world's leading journalism education website, went live with a complete redesign. We're extremely pleased with the outcome of the process.

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Sep 28 2009

Embracing the Iterative Design Process

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Published by Joel

As a new Senior Designer at Aten, our design process seems fairly similar to how I've done things in the past, with one clear exception: the attitude surrounding design revisions.

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Jun 25 2009

Building websites for content

Published by Eric

We take a content-first approach to building websites. That means that one of the first things we'll do in a project is ask you for all the content you plan on publishing to the web. Here are a few reasons why.

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May 1 2009

Telecommuting

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Published by ken

About three years ago, my wife, Jen and I packed up and moved back to Rochester, NY (where we met in college). I’ve been telecommuting ever since.

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Jan 29 2009

Card Sorting: Getting the right results

Published by Eric

Card-sorting and cluster analysis for information architecture.

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Jan 14 2009

Goodbye 2008, Hello 2009

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Published by Justin

We took a few minutes to reflect on what was 2008, and what is 2009. Among the upcoming events are DrupalCon 2009 and a barrage of new work for the portfolio.

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Dec 15 2008

Even meaningful games should be fun

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Published by Jon

As browser-based game developers, it is easy to loose sight of what we are really after when it comes to creating meaningful games. No matter how much valuable information is packed into a game, it can't really succeed if it is not fun to play.

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Oct 21 2008

Not Just a Day Job

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Published by Justin

It's amazing to work with people who love what they do enough to do it at home, off the clock.

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