Design - Humans are creatures of habit.
No matter how spontaneous you believe yourself to be, psychological evidence proves that habit formation is an essential aspect of our psyche. This isn’t necessarily always a bad thing, either–as...
Apps -
Flat design seems to be everywhere these days. Both Google and Apple (iOS7) have rolled out new flat features (and here are 25 other great examples of it). And when Apple does something, we know the rest of the design world usually...
Advice - A groovy design trend you may have spotted in your Web travels is parallax scrolling, which refers to design elements appearing to move independently of each other. Its early application was in video games—think of how Super Mario...
Advice -
Home page carousels (or rotating banners) are a web designer’s darling, and are often demonized by Web usability experts because they take up valuable home page real estate, can be distracting and even detracting from conversion...
Advice - If you’ve been following Get Elastic from its earliest days, you may remember our Ecommerce Checkout Report, which examined the checkout tactics of the Internet Retailer 100 (back in 2007!).
This week’s infographic is reminiscent...
Design - A few months ago Adam McFarland, one of the owners of Detailed Image, a high-end car care product seller, dropped me an email to share the impact moving to responsive design had on sales. Launching the redesign in April, May sales were...