Online Media Cultist

A few weeks ago, I finally decided to do something about the fact that tagging on Online Media Cultist had been broken for some time. And that led to a general tinkering and design reboot session that has resulted in a fairly significant change to the way the homepage looks and how the site is [...]

Collaborating on design work is notoriously difficult. Deciding what the perfect shade of blue is, how rounded those rounded corners should be, and whether or not to make the logo bigger is all difficult enough when a discussion is happening between people in the same room. Add a virtual environment to the mix, and making [...]

I’ve been, er, a little bit critical of the design of two of the largest tech blogs out there over the last few months. First I teed off on Mashable for its overuse of ads (Mashable has a lot of ads). Then I went the other way on TechCrunch late last month, singling out its [...]

TechCrunch rolled out a redesign of its site today. Lots and lots of white space, super minimalist. Now, I get wanting to strip down design to get a really clean look, and Mark Hendrickson notes that the idea was to move toward a less bloated looking and faster loading site. I get all of that. I’m not [...]