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I found out last week that I have become something of a web design stick in the mud.  It was because of my friend Eddie Perez”s review of JimCarrey.com.  Fittingly the design and user experience of the site is as unique as the actor and as Eddie puts it, The site was clearly designed to [...]

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And How To Find The Facebook Event Page Last week on Lifehacker I stumbled upon a handy tip from Sean Bonner on  how to export your Facebook events into your Google calendar. In Facebook, go to your EVENTS page. At the top of that page click EXPORT EVENTS You’ll get a pop up window with [...]

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I’ve already posted about what the 350 campaign is and the results of 350′s effort. They are a fantastic organization and what  particularly was impressive about their organization is the way that they used social media. Here are 6 of 350′s tactics that you should emulate  when creating your own social media campaign and 4  [...]

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Refresh Boston is looking good this month. Think that I’ll  be stepping downstairs to attend. Note: I’m not affiliated with Refresh Boston I’m just in the general industry and work upstairs from the event. Refresh Boston: What Makes a Design Seem Intuitive? Thursday May 28, 2009 at 7:00pm Microsoft Startup Labs 1 Memorial Drive Boston, [...]

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Some  symbols are obvious, like red hexagons and yellow triangles for street signs.  Some are less well known, but unconsciously drive our understanding and decisions, such as orange being the international color for decaffeinated coffee.  At our peril we ignore these shorthand identifiers and therefore risk misunderstandings and errors. Baking Soda, Baking Powders and Their [...]

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Ouch! Now I’ll admit that some of the websites that I’ve produced may have been unimpressive, but none of them were for the leadership of the free world. Online Media Daily found that only 36% of people who visited Hillary Clinton’s site had a more favorable view of her after visiting her website HillaryClinton.com as [...]

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Here is another of my old posts from a now defunct blog, originally posted 5/31/07. I was in Minneapolis the other day visiting a client, and while my client rented a car, I tried out the rental car company’s new kiosks where you can print out directions to your destination. These kiosks should be a [...]

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My friend Donna regularly point out on the sites and elearning courses that we produce that right hand portlets can look like ads, which can then be ignored by visitors. I love to prove her brilliance and if I can do that by citing Jakob Nielsen that’s even more fun. His article on site design [...]

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