by mdeville | Jul 17, 2020 | Thought Leadership
This could be a very short blog post, depending on your point of view. The short answer is WordPress is about as dead as Photoshop, which is not dead at all. I’d like to think I’m unbiased, but I’m not… certainly not on this topic. I’ve been using, designing, and...
by mdeville | May 15, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Matt DeVille, VP of Digital, talks about UX best practices for blogs. Blogging. What a wonderful word. Nowadays, we take blogging for granted, but many of us can remember the pre-blog days of the web. Blogging helped democratize the web, and while many blogs are just...
by mdeville | Feb 5, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Matt DeVille, VP of Digital, meditates on the nature of grid systems in design. If you’ve ever driven in a city that’s neatly divided into quadrants and subdivided by an orderly arrangement of streets that adhere to the four cardinal points, you’ve experienced the...
by mdeville | Oct 18, 2019 | Culture
In August, I received an email from Dr. Mas Biswas of Loyola University Maryland asking if I would be interested in speaking to his Capstone Class, which is focused on web and graphic design. To be honest, I didn’t know what a capstone class was, but after a quick...
by mdeville | Oct 15, 2019 | Thought Leadership
Matt DeVille, VP of Digital, takes a critical look at fake authenticity, transparency, greenwashing, and wokewashing. Brands fake authenticity all the time. Frankly, it’s offputting. So why do they do it? Simple: “Authenticity” and “Transparency” have become very...
