Hippo Blog

At Flying Hippo, we’re sort of font snobs. We’re constantly on the hunt for the best web fonts. In particular, there are 10 web fonts that we use quite frequently in our web projects. Each font family has its own character, look, feel and di...

Design principles are everywhere. Even in places you might not notice or expect. Take food trucks for example: not only are they mobile hunger-fighting supertrucks (like Transformers, only more delicious), but they’re prime examples of some really ...

Business Critical is our weekly collection of what’s new, exciting, and insightful for business leaders from the world of the web, marketing, social media, and more. Test Your Brainpower With Lucy’s Interactive Website Immersive experiences a...

I think everyone has home team pride. And that is certainly how we feel today. Flying Hippo proudly launches the redesigned school district website for our home base in Urbandale. Not only do we have location pride, but Urbandale Community School Dis...

There it is, staring at you. Laughing. Mocking. Just waiting for you to make a move. The dreaded blank sheet of paper. Whether you’re a writer, designer, developer, or gardener, creative inspiration comes and goes without regard for deadlines or la...

It seems like these days, everyone is expected to specialize in a super niche field of study. “Be a type designer, a JavaScript engineer, or a mobile expert. But, never try to be all three. Focus, focus, FOCUS”. It’s understandable; we only hav...

We’ve had the pleasure of working with some high-profile schools and school districts on redefining and refocusing their digital strategy. Often, schools come to us asking for a simple website redesign. Like many clients, we often help them to look...

For the past couple of years, the web has started to embrace a new paradigm: responsive design. That is, a single site architecture that resizes and adapts to different screens to work on multiple devices. While many web designers have shifted to sta...

Here’s a little secret you may not know about the photos used on the web: Almost every file (JPG or PNG) is packed full of additional data that has nothing to do with the actual image. What kind of data is hiding in these files? GPS data about ...

“‘Think simple,’ as my old master used to say — meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.” -Frank Lloyd Wright As designers, we have this really cool power. We ca...

Business Critical is our weekly collection of what’s new, exciting, and insightful for business leaders from the world of the web, marketing, social media, and more. Social media goes direct-message crazy Chasing the attempted $3 billion acquisitio...

When we first started this company, the web was a much simpler place. Boy, how times have changed. Back then, many brands were still apprehensive to invest in websites, development meant hard-coding a few pages in pure HTML (including tables. Ugh.), ...