When building a website, it easy to focus on the stuff that shows (text, colors, images, etc.). Often, the most impactful part of a website’s design is the part that doesn’t show—the white space. The space between elements that separates content and creates structure is equally important as the content itself. Unfortunately, most web clients
Category: From the Mustang Team
Step Into My Office
Adaptation to environment maximizes productivity, especially in business. We at Mustang have become incredible at adapting to all kinds of workspaces, from setting up portable laptops on counters to fighting carsickness as we tap on our phones from inside vehicles. When I started at Mustang about 14 months ago, working in such close proximity to
A Focus on Focus Groups
If you subscribe to a Steve Jobs-like philosophy, being a designer grants you power to make a decision on behalf of the user; we determine what the right way is, focus groups be damned. “It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you
Man Down
We are all super excited for our designer, Randall Loui, who is getting married this Saturday! That being said, we are also really buckling down because we’re short one designer for two weeks. With a small company, everyone contributes to our clients’ work, so we constantly go over responsibilities and divvy up job tasks to
Digital Property on Layaway
Recently, I read an article about a web designer who replaced a site he was contracted to build with a notice informing the world he’d not been paid for his services. The notice snowballed into public comments on social media sites and a few online news articles, all parties admonishing the company for not paying.