Design | Zivtech

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March 11, 2019

UX Principles: Constraints, Discoverability, Feedback, and More

As the field of user experience continues to expand, it’s important to be cognizant of the main principles that build the foundation for human-computer interaction.

Kaci Kwiatek

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November 8, 2018

How to Approach a Design System

Creating a design system from scratch can be tedious and time-consuming. But, this blog breaks down the process into a few manageable steps.

Alana Battalino

October 25, 2018

The Value of A Design System

Design systems are a valuable asset to your company. They standardize visual elements and maintain brand continuity across platforms. They also allow teams to move faster and communicate better.

Alana Battalino

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October 16, 2018

A Review of Our Higher Education Success Stories

We've worked with a variety of clients over the years, and each client success story is unique. When looking specifically at our higher education projects, we noticed a common theme among them all. Each of the institutions we've collaborated with focused on improving site usability and design.

Alana Battalino

August 7, 2018

How Color Affects UX

Color plays an important role in the user experience. The color scheme selected for your brand and website should effectively deliver a message to your user about your brand, product, and services.

Alana Battalino

February 20, 2018

My First Experience Designing a Brand Identity for a Product

I was tasked with designing key elements for the brand: a logo, website, and various illustrations to use as imagery. Here's how I tackled the project.

Kaci Kwiatek

November 29, 2017

What is a Heuristic Evaluation in UX?

If you want to know if your site’s core functionalities are user-friendly, a heuristic evaluation is a great place to start.

Yujean Park

November 16, 2017

Why You Should Use Flexible Components in Your Website Design

In a nutshell, a component is a design element used on more than one page.

James Cole

July 11, 2017

Getting Started with React, Drupal 8, and JsonAPI

You don't need to go fully 'headless' to use React for parts of your Drupal site.

Jody Hamilton

December 28, 2016

A Fresh Start: Revamping Your Navigation

While you may have a seemingly well-organized navigation that just needs finessing, your site architecture is the foundation of the entire website experience. Do you really want to build on something that could be cracking at the base?

Jen Rovner

January 29, 2016

How to Save Money on Your Website Redesign

Your website is outdated and you need a new digital coat of paint. You’re not alone. Many companies created great sites five or ten years ago that are now showing their age. Find out how to save money on your website redesign.

Sue Spolan

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January 7, 2016

Is Your Website User Friendly?

You have 15 seconds to make an impact when people visit your site. If your website is not user friendly, you will lose more than 20 sales in the time it takes you to read this post. Is that a gamble you’re willing to take?

Sue Spolan

December 30, 2015

Top Ten Web Development Predictions for 2016

We asked our team of experts at Zivtech to look into the near future and consider what's possible for 2016. Here are their predictions, and a few other random thoughts.

Zivtech Staff

November 17, 2014

CSS Units You Might be Missing

Our front-end development team make it their mission to always be on top of the latest news in the Design world, so that we can provide cutting-edge design work for our clients. It isn't surprising, then, that we also want to share exciting info with you!

Devon Walder

August 18, 2014

Creating Parallax Scrolling with CSS

Here at Zivtech, we are obsessed with creating immersive experiences for mobile and the web using cutting-edge design and Open Source Software like Drupal and Angular.js. One of the web design techniques that we've had on our radar is Parallax Scrolling, which gives depth to a page by scrolling two dimensions of the site at different rates.

Devon Walder

November 21, 2012

Unnatural Nomenclature

It’s not surprising that the web design and development communities struggle with nomenclature. We are creating new ways of working, new systems, and new things, all of which need names. We rely on what we know, borrowing and altering what we can with varied success.

Meghan Palagyi

October 3, 2011

Join Zivtech at the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit

Join us in Portland, Oregon for the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit October 14 -16, 2011.

Tony Capponi

October 22, 2010

We're Hiring! Full Time Web Designer / Front End Developer

We’re looking for a web designer to help build our interactive design division at Zivtech.

Mason Wendell

September 30, 2010

CSS is for Suckers. An Introduction to Sass & Compass

So you write a lot of CSS, right? I used to be like you. I'll bet you probably write enough CSS to see tons of possibilities in the code, but also maybe you pull your hair out over some of the limitations?

Mason Wendell

July 7, 2010

Zivtech welcomes new Creative Director

We're pleased to announce Mason Wendell has joined our team as Zivtech's new Creative Director.

Jody Hamilton

August 31, 2009

Continuing To Climb: Drupal Does Design

Is Drupal a bad platform for designers? If you were paying attention to the Drupal Planet or the twitter feeds of various Drupal community members and designers in the Drupal world, you might think the answer is a resounding 'Yes'.

Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg