The Pixel Brew

The Pixel Brew is the official design blog from the design team at White Dog Design Group, where we brew fresh pixels daily. Here, you will find our musings on everything from design and code, to usability and life.


Recent Posts

Dec 20

Cambrex Introduces Redesigned Website

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East Rutherford, NJ – Cambrex Corporation (NYSE: CBM, "Cambrex") has launched a redesigned website. The redesigned website features improved navigation and better showcases the product and service capabilities that Cambrex offers to customers.

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Oct 22

Why Redbox should have a conversation with Krogers

Topics: Life, Usability

We talk a lot about usability, and making things as simple as possible for your customers. While on a recent trip to Houston, Texas, I captured a great example of getting in the way of your customers that I just had to share.

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Oct 14

Using Google Maps to Compliment a List of Locations

Topics: AJAX, ExpressionEngine, Google Maps

Cambrex Corporation was a client of ours with offices and manufacturing facilities all over the world. We used the Google Maps API and some ExpressionEngine fields to give Cambrex's customers a better picture of key Cambrex locations.

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Jan 14

Phusion Passenger and the Missing Application

Topics: Capistrano, Ruby on Rails

I spent hours trying to deploy a Rails application today.
Every time I restarted Passenger, I'd receive the following error:
no such file to load -- application (MissingSourceFile)

If you're receiving this error, here's an addition to your Capistrano recipe that might do the trick.

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Nov 05

Working in a team environment

Topics: Design, Usability

Jason Fried at 37 Signals always has great insights into the mechanics of how they build really good, user-friendly applications. His latest post on their new team-based way of working, and it's an interesting read.

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