What We're Reading

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Every week we get together as a team and share articles we’ve been reading for our own enrichment. Topics include challenges our clients are facing, new industry developments, awesome work by others, or just pieces too funny NOT to share.

Below you’ll find those articles, plus a few of our own, that we’ve put together based on insights we’ve gained throughout our time in the industry.

Fockups Fockups – F*cked Up Mockups

Fockups – F*cked Up Mockups

Why it’s worth checking out:

Mockups exist to show your designs in action, but too often they’re shown in a perfect world. In reality, your designs will face lots of challenges: wind, rain, time, graffiti, or even failing information carriers. Those unfortunate real-life situations are collected in Fockups, aka the funniest, most realistic design mockups you’ll ever see.

Alvaro Trigo CSS Shadow Gradients

CSS Shadow Gradients

Why it’s worth checking out:

Created by Alvaro Trigo, this awesome resource generates easy CSS shadow gradients. Select your colors and spreads and copy the code with a click – all that’s left is to enjoy the beauty these snazzy shadows bring to your site.

Unbounce Video on Landing Pages Means More Conversions, Right? Wrong—Here’s Why

Video on Landing Pages Means More Conversions, Right? Wrong—Here’s Why

Why it’s worth checking out:

Not even well-established best practices are immune from falling by the wayside. You’ll want to learn what Unbounce discovered when they explored whether or not including a video on your landing page boosts your conversion rate. Turns out, videos do not boost your landing page conversion rates—and in some cases, they might even harm them.

Adobe How Kat Holmes Transforms Businesses with Inclusive Design

How Kat Holmes Transforms Businesses with Inclusive Design

Why it’s worth checking out:

“Exclusionary designs are often the result of ignorance and neglect, rather than intentional choices,” and it’s something we as an industry need to consciously work to overcome. This discussion with Kat Holmes, leading authority on inclusive design, lays out what happens if we don’t create inclusively and how to start to overcome this design deficit.

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