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Times keep changing, and with them, technology. In the last few decades, we've seen trend after trend come and go. Our phones have gone from landlines to wireless touch screens and our computers [...]

I was recently in San Diego for a wedding (#humblebrag) and unexpectedly found myself in the midsts of an in-depth conversation about my job, its location and, more specifically, my work/life balance.

We've all experienced the frustration of navigating a website and being unable to find the information we need. That's what usability test sessions are for. As a participant in one of these [...]

Get to know the newest member to join the BatesMeron team, Vivienne Apsey! Vivienne is our new Junior Designer bringing fresh ideas, exciting designs and a love of typography to the BatesMeron team.

Since the dawn of the modern business model, sales and marketing teams have had a notoriously rocky relationship—made rockier by the fact that they are two of the most critical departments in any [...]

As any fellow creative can attest to, there are many lessons from art school that follow us into our careers. We look at our x-acto blade scars and feel pride in the projects that we put our [...]

As a designer, there’s a valuable amount of time that goes into conceptualizing an idea when working on a new brand or project. It’s arguably the most important component of the work we do. Being [...]

Or so that’s the conventional agency wisdom. This document to rule all documents is held as both bible and road map. Its word is bond (quite literally if your agency requires client sign-off on [...]

Are you a right-brain or a left-brain thinker? Do you even know? How many times have you heard, if you think of yourself as a creative person, then you might be a right-brain thinker? Or, if [...]

It is finally summertime. Are you going on a trip? If so, your planning process may very well lend itself to a lesson in human-computer interaction.