It’s not always a eureka moment. It might not change the world. But it's a moment of clarity that help set your course. It's up to you to create the environment that makes it happen.
There have been suggestions that responsive design layouts are the silver bullet to solve the problem of platform divergence, and unify experience of websites across different devices.
Interaction design patterns are constantly evolving and every now and then a really interesting one crops up. This time, it is a novel approach to faceted navigation, called 'elastic lists', which utilises information visualisation principles.
There is a sudden, surprising upsurge in the number of designers extolling the value of code. That’s not to say that designers are arbitrarily acknowledging the beauty of a well-formed operator overload in C++. No, they’re clamouring for courseware for front-end development. Designers want to be developers.
Analytics are of enormous value to digital marketers but be careful not to lose sight of what your customers actually want, think and feel. An understanding of your customers on this level is needed to drive innovation and inform future strategy, planning and design decision making. It’s not an 'either /or' choice but rather a question of using the right kind of tools for the job.