Scoville Creative

10/14/2021

Accessibilty on websites means that a website is optimized to be viewed with any device by any person. But are accessible websites tough to achieve? No, they are not.
https://alvaromontoro.com/blog/67989/myths-about-web-accessibility

08/24/2021

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” — Scott Adams

Break your creative block now

07/28/2021

Have you ever been turned off by a feature on a website? This is a frustrating design pattern.

What can you do, as a builder, if your job seems to require to employ disrespectful design patterns? What is Disrespectful Design First, it’s worth rehashing what Disrespectful Design is. I t…

07/16/2021

What's right is not always popular. What's popular is not always right. Web design is like this; just because you see some feature everywhere else does not mean it is the best solution. A few examples are menus that open on hover, hamburger menus, sliders and using images as text.

06/21/2021

Typography is an important factor for any website. A font sets the mood, it cab sway the opinion of the user and it can help leverage business decisions.

A design-curious data scientist crawled the top 1000 websites to analyze their font selections. Here are the fascinating results and how you can use them to guide your web design decisions.

01/21/2021

Lighthouse is a service that scores your website's performance. Check out the scores on the recently redesigned whitehouse.gov!

12/28/2020

https://www.pcmag.com/news/study-finds-bad-web-design-is-killing-us-all-with-stress Don't torture your customers!

A design company created test sites full of super-annoying issues, such as slow load times, auto-play music, and pop-ups, then measured how much each increased people's blood pressure.

10/19/2020

UI and UX are both extremely important parts of a website. Do you know the difference?

“No input, No Output.” - Joe Strummer

10/01/2020

Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act mandates that websites should be usable by those with disabilities. Does this include your website? I can help you fix your website! https://brailleworks.com/508-compliance-needs-compliant/ ?

Who needs to be 508 compliant? Section 508 doesn’t apply to federal agencies only. It also impacts any company that does business with a federal agency.

09/18/2020

My screen name for AOL was CptCompost. What was your favorite screen name?

While many of us use an online moniker that is a version of our real name, there are plenty of sites, services, and video games that require another name: The Screen Name. We tend to use the same one across multiple platforms, and they’re uniquely us—provided you’re not 14 years old, in which ...

09/09/2020

The hamburger menu: good or bad? My vote: BAD. The name is fun though.

Everything you need to know about one of the more controversial UI elements in your toolkit.