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No One Wants to Download Your App
February 21st, 2012
Why is everyone so crazy about creating mobile apps when research shows users hardly actually use them?
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Site of the Day
Site of the Day: TheseDays.com
February 22nd, 2012
This site really struck me because of its unusual layout for an agency’s website. I’ve seen more than my fair share of agency sites, and I can honestly say I’ve …
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Inside the Design: Bluecadet and the McNulty Prize
February 1st, 2012
Bluecadet’s incisive, nested site for the McNulty Prize houses deep, diverse content in a non-traditional user interface. But the site didn’t emerge full-blown: The designs required careful planning and research.
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Skeuomorphs: Lazy Fallbacks or Helpful Guides to the Future?
February 7th, 2012
You might not know the word, but you surely know a skeuomorph when you see one. They’ve existed as long as people have been making things: Skeuomorphs are design details …
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Book Review: HTML & CSS by Jon Duckett
February 20th, 2012
As someone with a long history in development, I’m comfortable with the traditional format used in nearly every technical book. Most of them are extremely dense with copy and just …
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