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Flash vs HTML5
This debate started earlier this year when Apple released its iPad. The iPad has no support for Flash, following in the iPhone footsteps. Flash is the current standard for moving graphics on the web but it is a resource hog on your system. In devices that rely on battery power for their usefulness, this can [...]

Connecting to the Internet
The way in which people connect to the Internet greatly affects how we design for it. In the old days we used to have to make all the files as small as humanly possible to increase the load times. Pages that would load slowly would frustrate users. Today, load times are not that big of [...]

Keeping the creative juices flowing with Girl Scout Cookies.
s+j has the fortune of having our own Girl Scout in residence. Heather’s niece drops by our offices every winter so we can all order our Girl Scout Cookies.  And while we still prefer having Ava stop by the office to make her pitch, here’s an interesting article about the Scouts taking their tactics online. Girl [...]

recent work

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Defensible Space Program Promotion

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