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When designing a lot of websites, we tend to focus on how to best use text for things like navigation. Images are primarily thought of as support for the text (with the exception of things like portfolio sites and the like). Beyond sites that use images...

This week the most shared map on social media has to have been the Racial Dot Map. The map is a fascinating visualisation of the geographic distribution, population density, and racial diversity of the USA. The map uses data from the 2010 US census,...

Big and Bold – one of the growing means nowadays to catch the viewers’ attention. Bold colored websites are fast becoming a trend because of its ability to catch the attention of the readers due to their size and boldness. That is why websites...

We love the teamwork behind AbbyPutinsky.com, designed by San Francisco illustrator Abby Putinsky, and developed by her husband Adam. In this guest blog post, Adam will walk us through how he worked with Abby to give the map a unique, illustrated look...

By Monica Tran, Google Maps team Cross-posted with the Google Geo Developers Blog We love the teamwork behind AbbyPutinski.com, designed by San Francisco illustrator Abby Putinski, and developed by her husband Adam. In this guest blog post, Adam will...