Last week, my fellow Moonfarmer Erin and I were sent on an excursion to Charlottesville, VA to attend the Tom Tom Founder’s Festival! It was a jam-packed 4 days of sharing, learning, and meeting new friends! Tom Tom Fest is a interdisciplinary, multi-track conference that explores the future with entrepreneurs, leaders, designers, innovators and visionaries who inspire change.

In 2017, there is a plethora of free website builders, themes, and templates you can use to create a website “in minutes!” The truth is that the results of these tools are rarely sustainable in the long term — and may be sending the wrong message to your end user. — Having a company or organization website provides you with the opportunity to communicate with other people about what you do, and what you care about, without ever actually talking to them. That’s a pretty powerful thing!

Human-centered design is a way of approaching your design practice that specifically addresses the needs of your user base. …

To design something to be inclusive means to make it approachable for a diverse set of users. Often, this focuses on optimization for accessibility without compromising the experience of users not using assistive technology. …

I was absent from the office for two days last week, but it was for a good reason: I was volunteering on the event staff for New York Smashing Conference! …

I’m Shauna, and I’m currently an intern here at EMN. I’m in my last semester of college at SUNY New Paltz, where I’m earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design. In the past four years, I have learned a lot about design in several different places. The first…