Digital media and connected devices may be all the rage, but even the snazziest of retail initiatives will fall flat if they’re not backed by human interactions and customer service.

Today’s retail landscape is very interesting, to say the least. Consumer expectations are higher than ever, and we’re seeing all sorts of players — from larger-than-life corporations like Amazon to media companies like Buzzfeed — disrupting the retail space.

Creating usable components in digital design is an essential part to building a design system and systems help create consistency, which is a core tenant of digital design.

This year’s JSConf US event in Carlsbad, CA drew JavaScript enthusiasts from around the world to MJD’s neighborhood for a series of talks and activities.

We are thrilled to announce that the American Girl 'Create your own' website has been named as a Webby Award Honoree for Best Website Navigation/Structure in 2018. This marks the fourth year in a row that MJD has won a Webby Honoree.

As a digital innovation agency, we have always put a significant emphasis on designing, prototyping, and testing fast/early/often. Pop-Up Shops are the epitome of that philosophy in physical retail locations.

After spending the latter of last week attending the 2018 Awwwards Digital Thinkers Conference, we’ve whipped up the moments that resonated the most through our collective experiences.

When a typeface reaches ubiquity it becomes banal or worse, contemptible. For brands, the risk in using these familiar faces means losing their individuality.

Over the last three years, we’ve had a bit of a kid explosion here at the office, and when you mix all those little tikes with our crew of super nerds, toy talk gets technical.

iPhone X devices started arriving for customers last week, heralding the biggest hardware change to the iPhone line since its inception.

MJD recently completed a comprehensive research study on the “Future of Retail” that included focus groups, surveys, the review of 64 articles, 14 Powerpoint decks, 16 white papers, and 2 additional research studies.

Shop.org 2017, the NRF conference focused on e-Commerce, went down last week. MJD was there both as a participant in the renowned Tech Lab, as well as a group of digital retail geeks excited to check things out. Here’s what we found.

At MJD Interactive we develop high quality, award-winning mobile apps.

We are excited to announce our partnership with NRF that will allow MJD to share our retail thought leadership and digital innovation process with forward thinking retailers.

My mom and dad still do not know what the heck I do every day.

When a typeface reaches ubiquity it becomes banal or worse, contemptible. For brands, the risk in using these familiar faces means losing their individuality.

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