Mindgruve and The Chickasaw Nation partner to develop a brand refresh for casino traditional and mobile websites.

SAN DIEGO, CA – September 23, 2011 – In June 2011, Mindgruve, a San Diego-based digital media firm, partnered with The Chickasaw Nation, an American Indian Nation in Oklahoma, to implement a brand refresh and develop a series of Casino web and mobile sites. The project requires Mindgruve to bring their expertise to produce strategy, design, and development of user facing, front end websites that allow each separately branded casino to convey it’s own unique look and feel.

To meet Chickasaw’s need to brand all of the casinos together and individually, Mindgruve will build a single enterprise level CMS architecture that will be shared amongst all of the traditional web and mobile sites, but still allow them to each be customized to tailor to the needs of each specific casino. The technology has shown to be robust, yet agile and easy to maintain. It is also very scalable to accommodate future growth for The Chickasaw Nation’s many gaming facilities which includes one of the largest casinos in the world.
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With 2012 fast approaching, it’s time we took a look at where web design is headed for the coming year. In 2010, web design started to move towards minimalism and it’s being fully embraced in 2011. Minimalism is nothing new in graphic design, but when applied to websites, there’s more breathing room, a distinguished hierarchy and straightforward information. More importantly, the focus is on the content.

Minimalism shows no signs of stopping in 2012 as technology gets more immersive and users continue to demand instant gratification. The average attention span of web visitors is 8 to 10 seconds. In that short amount of time, we have to tell them they’re at the right place, then organically lure them in. While part of that is having a “cool” website, the minimalist concept of “less is more” needs to be applied where aesthetics marries function.

Based on popularity, visual appeal, effectiveness and awesomeness, we believe the following web design trends are here to stay.
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