As one of the digital thought leaders at Brogan & Partners, I was excited to attend this year's SXSW conference and see where the future of digital design was heading. Often, I feel like the "usability police" and for years I have been making sure our web sites, rich media and social media designs where intuitive so the user knows where to click and what they'll get. But with Touch UI gaining momentum, it begs the question: Is Touch UI the Click UI killer? After all, video killed the radio star...

As a mobile web designer, testing usability on all mobile devices is a crucial part of our quality control process. But for those of you who don't have every mobile devices out there, here's an option:

With Photoshop being a household name nowadays, everyone seem to be experts at retouching their grandparents old photos or adding some cool glow effect to their love ones picture. It's like handing cousin Joe a painting pallete to do the Sistine Chapel. Just because you have a paint brush, doesn't mean you're Michelangelo. So, you exspect to see bad retouching attempts from family friends, but to see it end up on ads is utterly priceless.

Here's more, courtesy of Makefive.com, enjoy:

Check out this Simpsonize Me website. It turns you into a Simpsons character. Cool man!

There are many sites that can create cool pictures of you for your social media profiles. Here's 12 of them:

I’ve been joining a lot of social networks for a while now and developed a handful of them.

The Detroit Lions unveiled their newly designed logo and uniforms to fans at Dunham's sporting goods store Monday in Madison Heights. According to MLive.com, not many fans were impressed with it. They thought it wasn't much of a change.