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Moving Beyond the Fold

Clients often tell me that they think their sites scroll too much. “People are too lazy to scroll,” they say. “We want all of our most important content visible at once.” I hear what they’re saying. Designing “above the fold” used to be huge in web layouts. But unless you’re still living in the early […]

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Hooray for the Hub

A few years back, I was working as special projects manager for the City of Dayton. The city needed a firm to take on a unique assignment: creating a website for the Ohio Aerospace Hub. Dayton earned the Hub title in 2009, an initiative to draw aerospace-related jobs, education, and economic development (read: cash money) […]

Let Your Type Do The Talking

If you think that in this age of beautiful, dynamic web layouts, people have stopped paying attention to type, think again. Atomic’s new designer Josh Dean explains why well-organized type isn’t going out of style.