We are passionate about what we do and draw inspiration from lots of sources. We created this series to share with you what is inspiring our work and our life. This is a special edition dedicated to the great things happening in our beautiful city of Detroit. Enjoy!
Imported from Detroit
An inspiring Chrysler ad; fueling the [...]
What Inspires Us: Three (Detroit Edition)
How Your Online Persona Creates Real Human Connections
We all know the reasons why it’s important for your business to reach out to your customer via Social Media. But with all the noise coming in from Twitter and Facebook, one has to wonder are you really getting heard? To answer this you need to understand that user interactions online are very similar to [...]
Twitter as a Customer Support Channel
As twitter continues to grow in popularity, a number of companies have chosen to use twitter as a method for customer support. Twitter is all about conversation and businesses must be an active part of that dialogue to support their brand image and customer loyalty. There are four main ways to use twitter as a [...]
Facebook Fans are Powerful Brand Advocates
Where do you start when you plan on buying a new car, try out a new restaurant or look for your next vacation spot? Most likely, you either turn to online reviews or ask a friend. With the rise of Facebook Fan Pages and Facebook Connect, these two resources are beginning to blend together, changing [...]
What Inspires Us: Two
We are passionate about what we do and draw inspiration from lots of sources. We created this series to share with you what is inspiring our work and our life.
Quality Design Requires Learning to Forget
It is easy to forget that everyone may not see the world as you do. Of course we know that everyone is different, and people have different beliefs on religion and politics. However we forget that what separates us is not just perspective but knowledge. While an understanding of perspective is crucial to all markets [...]
Content First: Reordering Content in HTML for Improved SEO
Most developers do not really think about the order of the content in an HTML document. Because of the nature of HTML and CSS, most web pages are coded in the order they appear on the screen. While this is the most commonly used practice, there are compelling SEO advantages to placing the content first in your HTML document followed by your navigation.
What Inspires Us: One
We are passionate about what we do and draw inspiration from lots of sources. We created this series to share with you what is inspiring our work and our life.
Typekit: Using Real Fonts with Just CSS
Designers who are able to use any font they own for print design, have always been frustrated with the lack of font support in browsers. Over the years various options have appeared to help bring typographic variety to the web. Each solution comes with it own advantages and Disadvantages. Now that there is a relatively new option out there, Typekit, we decided to review all the options for non standard typography for websites.
Knowledge in Our Pockets, Not in Our Heads
Written by: Jeremy Osborn
The internet and more recently the mobile web on cell phones has changed the way we discuss information in conversations. When I was growing up information was stored in one of two ways; in books and in our heads. If we could not recall something we walked over to an encyclopedia or some [...]
Category: Commentary, How Technology Changes Our Lives, Mobile Web
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