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After months of redesigning in public, we’ve finally pushed the button that unleashed the new cloudfour.com on the world. For me, this project has been a dream come true. I was a fan of Cloud Four long… More

It’s hard to believe it’s been over three years since Dave Rupert wrote Responsive Deliverables, challenging the rest of us to start making “tiny bootstraps, for every client.” It’s been almost as long since Brad Frost and Dave Olsen… More

While iterating on a new article layout for the impending Cloud Four redesign, I encountered an old CSS layout problem. For long-form content, it’s usually a good idea to limit line lengths for readability. The most straightforward… More

Logos are an ideal use-case for SVG. Because they’re typically designed for reproduction and versatility, they’re almost always vector to begin with. SVG’s support of CSS and media queries means we can adapt brand imagery depending on the display… More

Our team had a set of defining characteristics and was almost ready to start redesigning cloudfour.com. But before we dived into element collages (more on that in a future post), we wanted to draw from a shared well… More

When we started redesigning cloudfour.com, I knew I wanted the entire team to feel a sense of ownership in the end result. To establish an inclusive design direction without designing a camel, we… More

As a follow-up to my post discouraging the use of icon fonts, I recently wrote about the SVG icon process we’ve been using at Cloud Four. While most of the feedback I received was positive, some felt the… More

When I wrote about why you shouldn’t use icon fonts in your next web project, I had no idea it would spark so much heated debate and intense discussion. One recurring question stood out to me: How might one… More

Icons are everywhere. These “little miracle workers” (as John Hicks described them) help us reinforce meaning in the interfaces we design and build. Their popularity in web design has never been greater; the conciseness and versatility of pictograms… More

Fun fact: Cloud Four’s design team really digs SVG. Our enthusiasm for the image format accumulated gradually over many months, thanks in large part to Sara Soueidan’s tireless documentation of its most mysterious features and quirks. It was during… More