Experience Design (XD)

This year I had the amazing opportunity to return to California for this year’s Adobe MAX in LA. This event is known as “The Creativity Conference” and is open to all disciplines in the industry. Between the several hundred educational sessions, Adobe suite updates, and lineup of inspirational speakers, it’s easily one of my favorite […]

The new website we created for OhioHealth has received industry recognition for the third time since launch with the announcement of the W3 Award winners. The new OhioHealth.com earned a Gold award in the Healthcare Services Website category at the W3 Awards after also earning Creativity International and WebAwards nods earlier this year.  The new […]

Today at the Sitecore Symposium Opening Session we were treated to several amazing customer stories and even some great information about Sitecore! First, let’s talk about the Symposium itself.  We are in Orlando, Florida hoping that Hurricane Michael bypasses the city where 3,000 attendees from 53 countries are attending over 100 sessions. The theme this […]

Perficient Digital added two more awards to the shelf with the recent announcement of the 2018 WebAwards winners. The websites we created for CURT Manufacturing and OhioHealth were both recognized, earning Outstanding Manufacturing Website and Non-Profit Standard of Excellence awards, respectively. Our Commerce practice brought in the first award with the new CURT Manufacturing website, […]

Perficient Digital’s website design and development work continues to earn industry recognition, most recently in the form of three DotCOMM Award wins. The websites we created for Gallagher Way, Marquee Sports & Entertainment, and CURT Manufacturing earned two Platinum awards and a Gold award, respectively. Our Perficient Digital Labs team designed and developed the award-winning […]

You may have noticed a familiar face in eMarketer’s recent report, “Using Marketing Data for Merchandising: Optimizing Inventory Levels and Launching New Products.” Jim Hertzfeld, one of our chief strategists here at Perficient Digital, weighed in on the benefits of applying marketing data to influence not only marketing and sales efforts, but also strategies and […]

The other day I was perusing the Insights section of the Perficient website, and I came across a guide that sparked my interest called Five Digital Marketing Trends That Will Impact Your Business in 2018. In it, the authors discuss how personalization will “shape the complexity and magnitude of content development.” This was particularly interesting to me. I […]

Recently, Jenny Shaddach and I competed at the Adobe Creative Jam in Detroit and walked away victorious with the first place People’s Choice Award. First, I have to give to kudos to Adobe for a sweet event. Great venue—chic’ed up warehouse in the Eastern Market district of downtown Detroit—great speakers, portfolio review service, and they […]

There is a problem with the default styling of the figure caption (figcaption) element that is intrinsic to the way HTML and CSS work on their simplest level.  Elements don’t know or care about the other elements around them; they behave in their own way, no matter what content comes before or after them.  Let’s […]

Great visual designers understand that creating well-designed websites is much more than just aesthetics. Besides slick visuals, great design is actually about creating a website that is also functional and thus creates a good user experience. There’s a process or approach that needs to be followed to make sure both form and function are taken […]

Perficient Digital recently received a Creativity International award for the website we designed and created for OhioHealth, a not-for-profit system of hospitals and healthcare providers. The new website won a Silver award in the Non-Profit category, marking our first award win in the healthcare space.  With health consumerism continually influencing patient expectations, OhioHealth wanted to […]

Today I’d like to discuss the Atomic Design methodology and how I’ve been applying it to my visual design process. First, let’s start with a little description of what an atomic design is. Coined by Brad Frost, Atomic Design is basically the analogy of chemistry being applied to design systems. In chemistry, we learn that […]