Written by Michaela Lederman, QA & Accessibility Specialist, Aten Design Group The web is a valuable tool that allows users to perform seemingly unlimited tasks, including everything from making a donation and completing city- and government-related activities to purchasing products and catching up with friends. Given the extraordinary opportunities the…

Written by Kelsey Boyd, Digital Strategist, Aten Design Group Accessibility, usability, and inclusion are often afterthoughts when it comes to website redesign. Clients regularly expect to run a few web accessibility tests at the end of the project, make some tweaks, and call it a day. At Aten Design Group…

Written by Kathryn Sutton, Senior UX Designer at Aten Design Group Essential Elements of Effective Website Design to Consider for your Next Site Redesign Designing a website is often both exciting and daunting at the same time. Unless your job regularly involves website design, you’re likely not well versed on best practices. So let’s take a quick look at five key elements that…

Written by Ken Woodworth, Partner & VP of Design at Aten Design Group Designing for the web has changed dramatically in the last two decades — and it’s far from done. Every few years brings major breakthroughs in how we think about digital media. …

Written by Michaela Blackham, QA & Accessibility Specialist and Trevor Calabro, Senior UX Specialist at Aten Design Group An introduction to building better websites for users When it comes to the web, user experience and digital accessibility have surprising overlap. At their core, both disciplines are about building interfaces that people can easily understand and use. Usable, intuitive…

Written by Michaela Blackham, QA & Accessibility Specialist at Aten Design Group Defining Web Accessibility Web accessibility is here to stay, and that’s great news for everyone. Whether it’s more organizations committing to diversity, equity and inclusion, the massive increase of web accessibility related lawsuits, or even the introduction of state legislature requiring…

Written by Joel Steidl, Director of Engineering at Aten Design Group — A Drupal e-commerce project Drupal Commerce has been around for more than a decade. …

Written by Michaela Blackham, Accessibility & QA Specialist at Aten Design Group A human-centered approach to web accessibility Accessibility looms large in my life. Growing up I was extremely close with a cousin my age who suffered from a rare form of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. With extremely limited mobility in her later years, it became incredibly…

Written by Joe Crespo, Director of Accounts at Aten Design Group — Whether it’s to launch a simple brochure website, build the next killer app, or revamp your brand guidelines, every digital project starts with an idea. Ideas, however, are ethereal. Before you commit limited resources, you need to translate your intangible idea for a project into an actionable plan. The following…