Posts Tagged ‘Design’

Our recent website redesign for internationally recognized cultural destination The Henry Ford has been awarded a MUSE Award by the American Alliance of Museums. The site, which launched earlier this year, took Silver in the Online Presence category. The Henry Ford, in Dearborn, Mich., is the largest indoor-outdoor museum complex in the United States. It […]

Being a creative while working at a highly skilled dev firm has provided me a lot of insight on how workflows are changing for the better. The days of building sites from high fidelity compositions are fading fast. Development teams no longer have to wait for “signed off” wireframes and designs before getting started. Content, after all, is […]

While there has been much discussion about Apple TV and its impact on the home entertainment market, Google has been quietly building a digital eco-system that already has game-changing potential. Building upon the success of the Android operating system, Google has developed a Smart TV platform that succeeds where others have failed in the past. Android TV goes beyond […]

Last week, we announced that Perficient has acquired Enlighten, a digital marketing agency with great expertise and experience delivering digital strategy, user experience, marketing technology, digital media, and marketing analytics solutions. Adding Enlighten to Perficient further accelerates our capacity to help the world’s leading enterprises digitally transform, and we’re thrilled to add another team that couples excellent […]

It’s that time a year again, the time where we focus on all that we are thankful for in our lives. That may be our family and friends, or more simple things like a good night’s sleep. This year, I’m especially thankful for the following 5 design resources, in no particular order because I’m equally […]

For centuries, humans have been obsessed with solving the problem that is mortality, even dreaming up mythical creatures like vampires and zombies that are based on the idea of living forever. The once elusive immortality is very much a reality in today’s world except in a digital form. What are you leaving behind from your […]

In his blog What Happens When You Push the Broccoli Button? Brian Flanagan brought up a great point about iconography.  A few hours later after reading it, I misinterpreted the meaning of an icon on a website. I showed the icon to Claire, a co-worker, who guessed something completely different would happen upon clicking the icon than I did, yet […]

The UX of enterprise applications has typically lagged behind consumer applications. Look at the way you order a product from Lowe’s or Amazon, and it’s click, click, click, done! That’s what consumers are used to, and it’s reasonable to expect that every digital experience will be simple. Enterprise applications have significant differences that challenge design […]

Microservices are small, independent services that work together. In other words, these services are small, highly decoupled and focus on doing a small task at a time. Follow the Single Responsibility Principle Resilient/Flexible – failure in one service does not impact other services. If you have monolithic or bulky service errors in one service/module it […]

  I recently stumbled upon the picture on the right on LinkedIn and it reminded me of a conversation that I had with my mother, who is an architect by trade. She told me that many roads came to be what they are today, not by well-thought-out plans, but rather by people and animals getting […]

Why is time management so hard for this creative professional? I wanted to go ahead and get that out upfront. My week for writing and posting was last week, and I have this lovely plan to write and post on a semi-regular basis going forward. Like many of the creative people I work with, however, […]

…if you happen to live in China, that is. According to a recent article from Fast Company, In China, QR codes are everywhere, and most apps have their own QR code readers built-in. What seems like a pointless piece of technology in the U.S., can be central to an entire infrastructure in another country. Here’s […]