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Redesigning We Love UX

As you probably noticed, we’re launching today a new design of your favorite UX blog. The decision came along after we relaunched our main website, we decided it was time to give our blog a facelift as well.

Main thoughts behind the new blog were to make it easier on the eyes and more focused on content and mobile optimization. As you can see, we now feature our most popular article at the top of the blog.

We will keep sharing great links and Comics by Brian, as well as more original content coming soon.

Hope you enjoy, don’t forget to share!

Professional I

Professional I

Designing The Well-Tempered Web

Using Icon Fonts

The entire purpose of using icon fonts is to replace the need to render icons on a web page using images. Icons fonts can be styled dynamically using CSS. They are smaller in file size than an image sprite. Being vector in nature, they are infinitely scaleable.

30 Most Popular CSS Websites of 2011

Thanks for the shootout @designfestival!

What Successful Products Teach Us About Web Design

Websites are like breathing organisms. They evolve; new features are added and others are dropped, but they never stay still. Or at least they shouldn’t. Thus, while a promising fresh idea shouldn’t be discarded, it should be held until the next major update.

Have You Seen Our Updated Website?

Halfway through 2011 we began an initiative to revamp our website, and we did so rather successfully. Our agency had changed and so had our design sense, it was more than a good enough time to update our site. We were very happy with it and the results it was yielding our agency. Today, once again we release a new update.

Why the update?

If you’ve visited our site before you may have noticed that this is not a complete redesign, rather an evolution or realignment if you may. Our agency has grown, our team has gained a lot of experience and our clients have shifted tremendously from when we first started, thus the need to realign our site to show who ideaware really is at this point in time.

Realigning instead of redesigning

Cameron Moll wrote a really good article back in 2005 for A List Apart called ‘Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign’, and even though the article is a bit old, still holds true word for word:

The desire to redesign is aesthetic-driven, while the desire to realign is purpose-driven. One approach seeks merely to refresh, the other aims to fully reposition and may or may not include a full refresh.

This thought holds true for the way we work at ideaware, we believe in evolving, testing and iterating to align objectives not just designing to make pretty pages.

Evolution

We’re find it fun to evolve. We are a dynamic agency adjusting to a growing team and clients, and our website needs to show this. Have you seen what our site looked like two years ago? You can clearly see how we’ve been evolving our company and design approach.

Hope you like the new site, we really love it. Drop us a note via twitter if you have any suggestions or words of wisdom. 

[COMIC] Life Support

[COMIC] Life Support

An Important Time for Design

Cameron Koczon:

Design is on a roll. Client services are experiencing a major uptick in demand, seasoned design professionals are abandoning client work in favor of entrepreneurship, and designer-co-founded startups such as Kickstarter and Airbnb are taking center stage. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the fact that design has a massive role to play in the evolution of the web and the next generation of web products.