by Marty Merida | Oct 19, 2018 | Blog
What is the best way for UX Designers to work within a large set of teams? That is the question. The answer is not easy to come by for most and involves a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to unpack the answers. The 2-bit answer is to be as fluid as possible. If you can...
by Marty Merida | Oct 30, 2016 | Blog
In September, at the ATypI Conference in Poland—a sort of “who’s who” in the world of typography—the world was introduced to a game-changer for Web UX design: Variable fonts. A variable font is a single font file that behaves like multiple fonts. It...
by Marty Merida | Aug 8, 2016 | Blog
“Brutalism” is an emerging design trend that aims to disrupt the Web’s predictable aesthetics—to use slap-dash, rough, almost “handmade” HTML structures to rebel against the cozy, flat, and unremarkable designs of most new websites....
by Marty Merida | Jul 21, 2016 | Blog
A few weeks ago, I took my kiddos to Typhoon Texas—one of the best waterparks in the state, just outside of Houston. It was my first time there. I was floored. Typhoon Texas is a supremely well-oiled machine that can teach Web designers (like me) a thing or two about...
by Marty Merida | Jul 15, 2016 | Blog
Icons are the hieroglyphics of the 21st century. By replacing words with symbols—and thus using much less real estate—icons aim to make consuming info quick and flexible. But there are some inherent pitfalls when using icons… Potential Flaws in the Icon System...
by Marty Merida | Apr 5, 2016 | Blog
“Design” is probably too big a word. It comprises too many ideas, disciplines, and people to be a meaningful word on its own. For most of my life, “design” was something that companies farmed out to an ad agency or marketing consultant. But, lo! That paradigm is...