December 29, 2009
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Yesterday , I was attracted by the Wired Magazine Gadget Labs headline “Amazon: Kindle Books Outsold Real Books This Christmas.” According to a release cited in the article: “[the] Kindle has become the most gifted item in Amazon’s history … … Continue reading
December 24, 2009
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The misguided notion that somehow more is always better. Main Entry: Feature Creep Pronunciation: \ˈfÄ“-chÉ™r ˈkrÄ“p\ Function: intransitive verb Etymology: Middle English feture crepen, from the act of over-building something Date: December 24, 2009 Remember folks, flee from temptation to … Continue reading
December 18, 2009
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Even if you haven’t read the latest writings of Steve Krug, Jakob Nielsen or Luke Wroblewski, it doesn’t take a ‘Jesus Christ Rubber Duck’ to understand that church speak and clique-chat only help relegate your site into the realms search engine obscurity. Continue reading
December 17, 2009
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If conversion rates are the metric by which we measure successful web page adoption, then the antithesis of that is product abandonment. Today’s example shows how something as intuitive as a wall clock was made unreadable at 11:23. Continue reading
December 16, 2009
by meandean
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Nothing says “wipe-out” like a cheap little Holy Bible eraser. And nothing spells disaster like having all your valuable data turn into techno-mush. Here’s some tips to avoid this. Continue reading
December 15, 2009
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As once again the TSA reminds us that Christmas Snow Globes a threat to National Security, I thought it might be a good time to talk about the wide-World of bad-guys and some simple things you can do to guard your site from a potentially explosive situation. Continue reading
December 14, 2009
by meandean
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Learn how to cheaply and quickly avoid ‘accidental-message-myopia’ syndrome – like inadvertently creating a design that asserts an Aryan baby Jesus. Continue reading