Ben Moss

Ben Moss has designed and coded work for award-winning startups, and global names including IBM, UBS, and the FBI. When he’s not in front of a screen he’s probably out trail-running.

How corporate logos evolve

It’s fascinating to watch the evolution of a brand. Companies large and small inevitably change their identity over…

Enchant, simplify and amaze; the Android way

The Android User Experience Team have published their own design principles for delivering a world-class user…

iOS7 to adopt flat design

The last great bastion of skeuomorphic design, Apple Inc., is rumored to be completely revamping its mobile OS, ahead…

Farewell to Fireworks

Last week, Adobe announced that there will be no further development of their Fireworks application. Security updates…

iOS vs Android

It's billed as the battle of the century, at least as far as app developers are concerned; which has better ROI,…

Facebook redesign

The long, painful and drawn-out death of skeuomorphic design lurched forward another step this week with a redesign by…

jQuery 2.0 released

Hot on the heels of jQuery Mobile 1.3 comes jQuery 2.0, a brand new, full release version of the popular JavaScript…

Formal degree vs. self taught

For many web design professionals, there was no option but to be self taught. Years ago, the academic qualifications…

Google forks Webkit

Yesterday, anyone old enough to have been working during the browser wars, felt the icy cold fingers of fear creep up…

April Fools' roundup

It’s April 2nd, and news sites have gone back to reporting the news instead of inventing it. Yesterday’s annual…

Apple turn to Flash for security

Late on Friday night, Norwegian blogger Ally Tenor posted a number of screen grabs from Firebug that appeared to show…

Beautiful botanical alphabet

Since the very earliest illuminated manuscripts, dating back to the 5th century AD, we’ve associated flora with…

ESPNU taps into college loyalty

Sports branding used to be about differentiating two opposing teams on a field; it used to be about an umpire or…

Big brand theory: packaging design

For most brands, recognition is everything. Occasionally you'll encounter a company that seeks to create a air of…

New York Times redesigns its website

In the web-era, major news sources aren’t restricted to local readership. Whilst a city paper may feature some local…

Microsoft abandons Flash whitelist

There’s a concept in web design that is more important than responsive design, more important than mobile-first, more…

France considers net neutrality

The web has grown rapidly in the last two decades and its omnipresence makes it easy to forget that just 20 years ago…

Yahoo! redesigns

When Marissa Mayer jumped ship at Google to take over the reigns at the web's second biggest name in search, no one…