Since the beginning of 2021, Y2k trends have taken over pop culture and fashion. In fashion, we saw butterfly hair clips, bucket hats, and low-rise jeans. In technology, cord headphones became cool again, and Samsung released a new-age flip phone. Design trends moved with pop culture. We started seeing grunge aesthetics, colorful gradients, holographic patterns, […]
Posts Tagged ‘Design’
A Process Integration Timeline of Accessibility Testing
All too often, accessibility does not cross the mind of designers or developers until it is too late in the process. Approaching accessibility as a final checkbox in the entire process of a webpage and website development will result in exurbanite defects and adversely affect the final product. Developers and designers must take on the […]
Perficient’s Brian Flanagan Featured in 2021 SoDA Report
Brian Flanagan, Perficient’s Digital Experience Strategist was selected by the Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA) to contribute towards the recently released 2021 SoDA Report, Digital First, Digital Fast. In his article, Delivering at the Speed of the Customer, Brian shares his insights on developing technology-based experiences at the speed customers expect in a digital first […]
[Podcast] What If? So What? Episode 2: What If I Convinced The CEO To Embrace Design?
No one asked for the iPhone. Yet the experience of using it is as much of the design as the product itself. Design today goes far beyond the packaging and the product. How the consumer feels –whether good or bad – while buying and using a product is the design. In Season 1, Episode 2 […]
Rise in Synthetic Experiences
As all marketers know, visual content creation can be a long and expensive process. Photo and video shoots require a big investment in time and budget and the end result may be just a single asset or a few shots for you to use. Stock footage and photography exists, but they don’t always quite fit […]
Accessibility: Color Contrast
Importance For those living with disabilities, consuming web content can be a daily challenge. The web is an increasingly important resource in life today. By making your website accessible you are ensuring that all of your users, including those with disabilities, are able to access your site’s information. One of the most common roadblocks to […]
Visual Storytelling: Create Meaningful Gifs
Use Gifs to Increase Your Marketing Efforts This post is the second in the Visual Storytelling series. See the first post, How to Design Eye-Catching Graphics. If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much more valuable could a gif be? Gifs (aka Graphics Interchange Formats) are short, repeated video clips that have modernized […]
How to Set Your Theme in Microsoft’s Power Apps
You’re ready to dive deep into Microsoft’s Power Apps, but maybe wondering the easiest way to use color schemes throughout your app. You can make your code into more readable and maintainable in just a few easy steps. Themes help with consistency throughout your app and let you easily reference colors while designing. Not only […]
Considering Accessibility in Web Design: What You Can Do To Make Your Design Accessible
Since 1991, when the first website was introduced, websites have evolved from being purely content driven to becoming increasingly focused on their visual experience. While there is no argument that having a clean, cool, professional-looking, website is important it isn’t everything, especially when it comes to Accessibility. There is a popular misconception that implementing accessible […]
Working Hard and Playing Hard – Perficient Team Wins Game Jam
At Perficient, we spend a lot of time bringing creative and innovative ideas to the table and then working hard to turn them into successful realities. It’s kind of our thing. In fact, it’s our thing even when we’re not at work! Four of our creative and technical powerhouses proved this earlier this year at […]
Data Architecture and Design Thinking
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo da Vinci Simplicity is a very important strategy as people are thinking of designing their modern data platforms. Design is often a complex task, so I recommend applying strong design thinking to simple goals as you lead your data architecture teams. I have stood before many architecture review […]
Magento Page Builder: Development Tools for the Non-Developer
Magento Page Builder is one of the new functionalities included in the most recent release of Magento 2.3.1. Designed to increase the capabilities of eCommerce platform administrators and streamline page creation, this new program allows users to design and develop pages without extensive knowledge of HTML and CSS. The module itself was designed to be […]