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idfive Gets Sold a Dream at the 2015 Addys

Advertising takes a passing wish and makes it stick. The things that you need, want, and care about are mined out of common daydreams and… Read More

2014 Web Design Trends

The web-design landscape is continuously changing as designers and developers experiment and techniques go in and out of fashion. Remember the wet-floor effect? Parallax Scrolling?… Read More

Advertisers are the Real Winners of the 2014 World Cup

Every four years, the FIFA World Cup transforms hundreds of millions of people all over the world into crazed soccer fans. For about… Read More

I’m Gonna (Maybe) Be Teaching a New Class at MICA

I met with the director of the Graphic Design MFA program last week, and we’ve stubbed out a plan to teach a usability and… Read More

The US Gives Up Control of IP & DNS Systems

WHAT’S HAPPENING TO THE INTERNET!? Last week the government announced it was moving forward with a plan, originally set over 15 years ago, to hand… Read More

Twitter Ads: A Quick Introduction

Twitter has been talking to businesses about their “Promoted” products for a little while now but it hasn’t been until recently that they’ve… Read More

Making the Perfectly Optimized Page

SEO is all about content, context and links. Over on the MOZ Blog they’ve put together this handy, visual guide detailing all the important aspects… Read More

Yahoo! Reveals New Logo After 30 Days of Change Campaign

Yahoo! logo from 1995 to 2013. Late last week Yahoo! announced and revealed it’s final decision on it’s new logo (below). After 18… Read More

Redefining “The Gaze”

The concept of the gaze is fundamentally about the relationship of pleasure and images. In psychoanalysis, the term “scopophilia” refers to pleasure in looking, and exhibitionism in… Read More

78% of US Facebook Users are Mobile

Facebook has begun to release data on its 1.15 billion users providing usage statistics by country. This comes after a reported 10.3% increase in global… Read More