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The recipe for attention

Posted by · May 27

There is something undeniably magical about a recipe. Maybe it's the precision of ingredients that bring about the perfect flavor balance. Or it could be the fundamental idea of combining small food to make big food. Whate... Continue reading

Architect Interview: Griflan

Posted by · May 14

The team at Griflan officially joined the Architect ranks back in March of this year. Hailing from Philly, PA, Griflan is a lean yet well-rounded collective of design and development dynamite. As a newer addition to the Ar... Continue reading

Where is my freedom of creativity?

Posted by · April 28

Boundaries can be a bittersweet thing. They keep cattle inside of a confined area and not wandering the road. They can also inhibit animals from roaming free and happy. Boundaries keep us from coloring outside the lines - ... Continue reading

What I learned from students at General Assembly

Posted by · April 06

NationBuilder recently had the awesome opportunity to collaborate with General Assembly and their Web Development Immersive program. This was the first WDI cohort held in GA's downtown Los Angeles campus so, needless to sa... Continue reading

Designing the NationBuilder way poster

Posted by · March 20

A couple of months ago, I jotted down some thoughts about the differences of designing themes on NationBuilder versus other platforms. This fostered an entertaining dialogue among the rest of the NationBuilder design team,... Continue reading

Bootstrap framework now available for building custom themes

Posted by · March 19

Bootstrap is the most popular framework for developing responsive websites in the world. It's also the best documented. Not surprisingly, integrating it into NationBuilder has been one of the most frequent requests we've ... Continue reading

The "white-label" option

Posted by · March 13

Designers face a dilemma every now and again. We love the customer, understand their mission, and have a burning desire to help them succeed - but their maximum budget doesn't quite meet our minimum rate. So we start chopp... Continue reading

Architect Interview: ALSO Collective

Posted by · February 23

Toronto's own ALSO Collective have been certified as Architects since November of 2014. As evidenced by their video profile below, they are fascinatingly creative and brilliant at fusing together digital art and storytelli... Continue reading

To be, or not to be...a long-scroll theme

Posted by · February 13

We've all seen and loved, and maybe even created, our own long-scroll homepage at one point in time. You know that style I'm talking about - the one with slick parallax scrolling, humble-brag headlines, and the animated nu... Continue reading