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OrbitCarrot takes part in #colour_collective

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So what is #colour_collective ? #colour_collective is a new trend for creatives (mainly illustrators) where @PennyNevilleLee lists a colour each Sunday via Twitter, afterwards all the creative minds start to develop a new originative art piece (mainly illustrations) incorporating that colour. The piece most be finished by the following Friday at 7:30pm (GMT), where they…

It’s time to let go of your old outdated website

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Intro Your website is the only thing reflecting your brand when people find you online. It’s highly important that your website reflects your brand, and also increases your revenue. If it is not doing that then really evaluate your website to see if it’s doing more damage than good. First you must ask yourself these…

Skeuomorphic design > Flat design > Geometric / Polygonal Design?

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What next? The past few years have had some interesting design trends. In 2010 Skeuomorphic Design became mainstream – Skeuomorphic design is where you design UI elements to look like physical objects, often including textures. Then in 2013 there was a complete design change, textures, shadows and gloss became a thing of the past as…

Design / Development Team Integration

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Intro Apple products have always said to be successful because of the software/hardware integration, the teams work together and communicate to make sure everything work perfectly together. A similar process is also important in the web development world, many agencies have a design/development team which work separately, others specialise on either development or design and…