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We recently got the opportunity to develop a service worker for use on Smashing Magazine, which we’ll write about in more detail soon. This is the first of a multi-part article that will examine some of the solutions we… More

I have always considered myself a “designer who codes”. I enjoy that aspect of the web, even while in a purely visual design role. Not too long ago, in a previous visual design position I was in, I had a… More

After documenting our collective inspiration in the form of Mood Boards, our next design exercise for the redesign of cloudfour.com was Element Collages. We used a few points of reference before starting our Element Collages. First was Dan… More

By now you’ve probably heard that we’re full steam ahead with a redesign of our beloved cloudfour.com, and we’re doing it in the wide open for everyone to see. This is an interesting and fun endeavor for us, being… More

Back in the heady days of the .com boom when my cofounders and I all worked at Kavi Corporation, we had a number of technical standards-setting organizations as clients. As proof of industry support for their standards, almost all of… 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

We finally have the time to give our perpetual back-burner project the attention it deserves. And we decided we wanted to try something different this time. We’re going to redesign Cloudfour.com in the open! We’ve never done something like… More

It’s political season here in the United States, and it is great to see politicians taking technology issues seriously. Take Jeb Bush for example. His campaign has gone out of its way to highlight the importance of planning the… 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