Use All Five, Inc.

When designing for the web, I often need to take pieces from bigger PSDs and create smaller Photoshop files out of them. My typical process involves creating a new file—one equal in size to the document I’m working on—and then dragging all the selected layers over. Afterwards, I go through a handful of more time-consuming [...]
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There’s been a lot of debate over the last year or so about ditching Flash for HTML5. It seems like every other article in the web design world is about how awesome HTML5 is. There have also been an uprise in Flash-to-HTML5 converters on the market (don’t even think about going that route). HTML5 has [...]
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Why wireframes won’t hurt your project, and why you should be using them I recently found an article floating around in the design community titled “Why wireframes can hurt your project“. It’s by Sacha Greif, who lists a handful of reasons why the common web designer shouldn’t worry about creating wireframes. To sum it up, [...]
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There is a lot of recent discussion in the web design community about the topic of Art Direction. This is due the influx of individually designed blog posts, made popular by designers like Jason Santa Maria. Designers can control how individual blog posts and pages can look, similarly to the magazine format. This actually isn’t [...]
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Use All Five has launched some big websites this month: Nebul.us and AIA Los Angeles, and we’re excited to say these projects have been garnering some major press. Nebul.us is a social network that serves as a way to visualize and share how you’re spending your time online. It allows people to track their browser [...]
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We’ve been working rigorously on a startup that needed a Firefox plugin to accomplish all of the goals for the site. After learning that Firefox extensions are built primarily of Javascript, CSS and a markup language similar to that of Flex, called XUL, we decided we had the skill-set to build it in-house. There were [...]
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The current issue of Architect Magazine highlights the approach and strategy we developed for the websites we built for Thom Mayne’s architecture firm, Morphosis. We built two websites for different audiences. The first one, Morpohosis, is directed towards people who are unfamiliar with Morphosis and desire a thin but powerful experience behind their philosophy and [...]
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Papervision (the awesome 3D engine for ActionScript 3) is limited when it comes to standard flash interactivity. Specifically something called buttonMode. When you put buttonMode = true on a 2D sprite in flash, it puts a nice cursor over your sprite, hence making it look like a button or a link. We use Pv3d’s MovieMaterial [...]
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