Gain Efficiency with Mood Boards
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?
Posts in Design
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Wireframe Template - A Starting Point
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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LESS, The Flavor of CSS You Should be Writing for Drupal
It's no secret that we're obsessed with design. When we create a custom Drupal theme from our detailed designs, sometimes we end up with some pretty gnarly stylesheets. Since Drupal offers a generalized solution (typically a good thing), it creates unique, and often long, IDs and Classes for most HTML elements.
Launch Week
Last week was launch week at Aten, with two brand new redesigns hitting the interwebs. Both were for product manufacturers. Both were built in Drupal. Both companies sweat the details. In just about every other way, the two websites couldn't have been more different. Introducing RichardsonCap.com and ZimmermanMarine.com.
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Drupal for Journalism Educators: Poynter's News University Goes Live
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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Embracing the Iterative Design Process
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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Print Design for the Web
Lately I've been feeling pretty good about the direction the web is taking in regards to design and the things that can be accomplished online.
Building websites for content
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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Telecommuting
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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Goodbye 2008, Hello 2009
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.
