What do you call this thing we do?
There is one type of project that we seem to excel at, but that we don’t know what to call it. What would you call it?
Redesign
Our Surprisingly Simple Navigation Hover Effect
Fading adjacent menu items on hover is simpler than you might think.
Cloud Four Dot Com: What’s New in 2022
We just shipped the largest update to cloudfour.com since 2016! This time around, we had three main goals…
Making Our Patterns More Accessible
Our accessibility best practices have changed a lot in recent years, which we're reflecting in the next version of our design system.
From Drizzle to Storybook
Why we're changing up our pattern library UI after four years of rolling our own bespoke solution.
Redesigned!
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…
Breaking Out With Viewport Units and Calc
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…
Client Engagement the Cloud Four Way
As part of the redesign, we’ve been trying to nail down the general positioning for our business. That is, what makes us the special unicorn that we think we are (or maybe we’re…
Element Collages… are FUN!
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…
Cloudfour.com Redesign: This is how we do it
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…