How can developers and designers better work together? Do they each stay in their separate silos, or is there overlap in the two functions? Savage Obi Okogbue talks about a statement from one of the speakers at the South by Southwest Conference in Austin that made an impact on his interactions with team members.

“Coding is a design tool.”

Your website is your best marketing asset – always working to support your sales team and provide value for your customers. But if it’s overdue for a redesign, you may not be extracting as much value as you can, leaving dollars on the table. In the age of tighter marketing budgets, you need to maximize each communication and marketing channel, starting with a hard look at your website to determine if it’s time for a redesign.

We’ve assembled a list of direct benefits of a website redesign that will help you build your business case for a new site:

I love getting boxes from Amazon. It makes me feel like a kid at Christmas. I recently went out of town for a long weekend and came back to see the brown cardboard box sitting on my desk. “Is that what I think it is?” I asked myself. After opening the box I saw that “YES!!!” …

I recently returned from an APDF (Association of Professional Design Firms) conference in Boston where all the attendees spent two days discussing appropriate answers to the question “You Do What”? The dialogue began with everyone sharing their own personal one-minute elevator pitch. Those discussions led me to reflect on a situation that I frequently encounter but have rarely considered …

The brain is an organ and, as such, it requires oxygen and exercise, just like the heart and lungs. – Eddie Chandler, Stress Management Specialist It has recently become my responsibility to design graphics for our Savage blog. I design a header image to introduce each post. A small responsibility you might say, but this seemingly …