The Morrison Agency. Atlanta Advertising + Digital Agency

The internet: it’s been around for a while now. Aaand it’s big. It is bursting with more information than we could conceive, much less absorb. Once eCommerce became popular, the number of options for goods and services skyrocketed, overshadowed only by the amount of information you could get about those options. More data (customer reviews, similar products), like lower prices, became a competitive advantage. And now social networks like Twitter and Pinterest are continually broadening the scope of information we have about people, their interests, the products they love, and who their opinion reaches. A new way to see and understand that information was needed, and the loving marriage of data and design was the result.

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Steve Jobs must be celebrating beyond the grave. After the next release, Adobe will no longer develop Flash for mobile browsing beyond bug fixing and limited on-going support. This doesn’t mean Flash is entirely gone, but  it does signal the beginning of the end of Flash as a relevant platform for web use.

Mobile usage increases daily and is expected to surpass desktop internet usage by 2014. Android OS devices, which are known for supporting Flash, are starting to overtake Apple’s iPhone in number of units sold. Why would Adobe decided to stop supporting Flash now?

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A concept first introduced by Ethan Marchotte over at A List Apart, Responsive Design is changing the way people think about interface design.

First off, a loose definition. A site using responsive design will apply the following:

• The site must be built with a flexible grid foundation.
• Images that are incorporated into the design must be flexible themselves.
• Different views must be enabled in different contexts via media queries.

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