Posts tagged: Design Process

Rebuilding our 15-year-old coffee tasting app revealed how dramatically home brewing culture had evolved while we were designing for coffee businesses, teaching us valuable lessons in the process.

Ten years ago, we promised clients websites that would last a decade. Here's how we delivered on that promise, and the valuable lessons we learned about digital sustainability along the way.

Here at Needmore Designs, we recently decided to refresh the typography of our website. One of the most significant changes we made was the introduction of Connary Fagen’s Wayfinder font for our headings. This particular font, like many others of its caliber, offers a range of features such as ligatures, swashes, and alternates.

A quick guide to creating accessible PDF's for your website.

Putting together teams that have the energy and creativity to produce remarkable, custom websites.

The traditional web design process is not up to the type of creative problem solving custom website project demand. Here's how we've used Design Thinking to improve our process.

You aren't selling a bag of coffee—you're describing the experience of sipping a warm cup on a cold morning. In my WooConf 2017 keynote, I explored why website customization matters beyond aesthetics: it's about creating emotional connections and paths for visitors to fall in love with products. Drawing from James Baldwin's wisdom about making things better, here's Part 1 of our deep dive into custom web design philosophy.

Sketch just convinced us to put a ring on it with one game-changing feature: shared libraries. Like CSS files for design, they let our whole team access symbols that update everywhere when changed—no hunt and peck, no copy and paste. Finally, a simple implementation that makes sense, unlike Adobe's limited approach. Shared symbol libraries are effectively style guides you can build with.

Our studio upgraded to iPad Pro and Apple Pencil for each core team member, and it quickly became a freeing way to convey ideas fast. Using Adobe Draw for our Hither Coffee identity felt natural—like marker and paper—while aligning with our commitment to use less paper. The iPad Pro lets us keep a virtuous design cycle, making work easier to manipulate with less waste."

We've just returned from WooConf in Austin where Kandace gave a powerful presentation on creating an authentic brand voice from THE Austin City Limits stage. Your online presence either builds your brand loyalty or demotes you to being perceived as a commodity. Find out which yours is doning and what you can do about it.

Crafting the Picky Bars online subscription sign-up with unique designs on desktop and mobile.

Ray and Kandace talk with local students about design, clients, negotiation, and running studio that gets things done.