Process

AI content generation is appealing but not always accurate.

Hand-code an SVG snowflake, experiment in an interactive playground, and generate infinite random snowflakes with a dash of JavaScript.

"Swoop-and-poop" refers to when you're nearing the end of a project or task, and at the last minute, an important decision-maker swoops in and lets you know that you're on the wrong track.

Responsive design sprints are a significantly better way to design and build for today's web than the traditional web design process. We provide the receipts. Unfortunately, not every organization can adopt this responsive design sprints. Why is that and what can be done about it?

Web design software makers saw the pain caused by the design to developer hand off and built features to help. Unfortunately, these features don’t help as much as the software makers hope. At best, they are unwanted features to be ignored. At worst, they reinforce faulty assumptions that undermine design systems.

Good news: Browsers are more capable today than ever before!

Responsive design broke the traditional web design and development process in fundamental ways. Despite this fact, many organizations continue to use this broken process.

In Cloud Four’s core values, we state our belief in “the web as a unifying platform to provide access to information for all people of all abilities.” This inspires us to follow best practices…

Turning simple shapes into complex illustrations using some SVG magic.