Web and Graphic Design
We’ve taken five topics that influence our day to day (Design, Development, PR, Technology and Humour), and the one with most interactions from each topic has been put into an interactive pdf for you to download here. Quintet will be our weekly interaction roundup from 76insights. See you again next Friday! Click here to get Quintet 20/06/14
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Project Overview Cisco needed a presentation tool to demonstrate their products and services in a rich, interactive and non-linear way. Available tools such as PowerPoint and other online presentation software just didn’t offer the level of interactivity nor the freedom they required. The tool needed to work on touch screens, offline and online and it
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In today’s commoditized web development industry, choosing the cheapest vendor is not necessarily the most financially responsible decision. You may have heard the expression “Nobody Ever Got Fired For Buying IBM”. Fear tactics aside, I believe this statement is rooted in some sort of reality. At the risk of oversimplifying, when comparing vendors, customers tend
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How to avoid analysis paralysis and get real in digital product development. 1. Get out of the lab Like Macy Gray would say, you need to get up and get out… how will you make it if you never even try? Product people—as opposed to marketing people—love to work endlessly pushing the last pixel and
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The Impaired Speed Skating Association of Canada (ISSAC) mission is to have impaired speed skating recognized as a sanctioned sport by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). ISSAC provides funding for registered skaters in an effort to help them represent Canada at international competitions. We at 76design have been fortunate enough to be approached by ISSAC to
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When DMW Strategic Consulting approached us to redesign their website, we instantly knew it was one of those projects you’d be talking to your friends over a beer or at home with your partner while making dinner. Not so much because of the cool technology you got to implement—that will instantly make your wife yawn
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In the design community you often hear jokes about clients requesting size changes to their logo, “Make the logo bigger! It needs more impact! Make it pop!” Well, I have news for you: just make the logo. I don’t care if it’s big, small, long or tall– just make it. It doesn’t make sense for
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The graphic design world is constantly changing; there are always advances in technology through the development of software and tools. This can influence the look and feel of our design. It is important to keep up with the forever-changing world of design. Clients and employers expect you to be up to date with the latest news
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Where have all the apostrophes gone? If you’re like most people, you wouldn’t have noticed the decline in the use of the apostrophe in the digital age. It seems that it has been usurped by the footmark, which may look similar, but doesn’t hold the same meaning. Now there are reasons for this, but it’s
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HTML5 Canvas + EaselJs = A match made in heaven A client came to us recently with the challenge of creating them an interactive, touch-based presentation tool that would allow them to demo their products in an engaging way. It was left up to us to determine what technologies were appropriate in order to achieve
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