by Leslie Worth | Nov 29, 2016 | Design
I recently spent a few weeks in Eastern Europe, visiting Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The trip was filled with inspiring vistas, beautiful countryside palettes, and ancient architectural amazements. Family chapel in the Czech Republic The city of Cesky...
by Bob Wallace | Nov 21, 2016 | Technology, Usability
How do you learn about usability? Learning about usability can be accomplished by reading textbooks on the subject, or by reading internet articles. But it can also be learned by looking at and examining examples of bad usability. A good source of examples is from...
by Gail Snow | Nov 14, 2016 | Culture
Noma Hanlon and I recently took the subway from New York City’s midtown to Park Place in lower Manhattan and exited the station near Oculus—a landmark piece of architecture designed by Spanish-born, neofuturistic architect, structural engineer and artist, Santiago...
by Leslie Worth | Nov 4, 2016 | Culture, Design, HB Design, Inspiration
I am a creative director. I am female. I am rare. Until recently, I was part of a 3% club. That was the number of female creative directors at U.S. agencies in 2012. The number is now a whopping 11%. (Let’s celebrate, ladies!) Logically, these numbers don’t make a bit...
by Bob Wallace | Nov 1, 2016 | Technology
One of the tasks you often want to do is to check which page your site shows on for a particular search engine with a particular query. If you do this entirely by hand it becomes quite tedious. You go to Google, or Bing, or Yahoo and type in your search term. Then on...