Don’t Make Me Think

By John Parikhal and Taran Swan

It still surprises me that there are so many bad websites out there – especially since some designers act as if there is nothing new left to learn about design. To me, a bad site is one where you don’t know where to start when you land on the home page and where the graphics [...]

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