Sometimes, I like to think of my job like a magic mirror. Companies come to Atomicdust wanting to change how people see them. Their brand seems dated, or not professional enough, not cool enough, not clear enough, not fill-in-the-blank enough.…
Accessibility is a big buzzword in design, marketing and tech. More and more giants like Google and Apple are prioritizing inclusivity, and the amount of accessibility lawsuits continues to climb. In 2019, a website that isn’t accessible isn’t keeping up.…
Atomicdust has been designing and building websites for almost two decades, and even though a lot has changed, one thing hasn’t: a good user experience, or UX, is vital. We specifically look at UX when we plot out our clients’…
Let me take you back. Back to 1999. Back to a movie called Never Been Kissed with Drew Barrymore. In case you missed this classic, the plot is simple – a journalist (played by Barrymore) goes undercover as a high…
When I was in school, I was really good at taking tests. At one point, I even joined an academic team that took tests competitively against other schools. I liked the challenge of figuring out the single correct answer to…
“I really like it.” Probably one of the most important things I learned in design school, and subsequently in the working world, is that “liking” a design is not sufficient enough. That’s what separates art and design; art is subjective,…
