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Author Archives: Christopher Butler

About Christopher Butler

Christopher Butler is the Chief Operating Officer of Newfangled, the author of The Strategic Web Designer, and a writer for PRINT magazine. You can follow him @chrbutler on Twitter.

Usability Testing 101: Two Ways to Test

January 17, 2013 | Christopher Butler | Comments: 0
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Editor’s Note: This article is excerpted from How to Get Useful Website Feedback, written by Christopher Butler and originally posted on Newfangled.com. The article recaps Chris’s presentation at the 2012 … Read more

How to Manage Scope Creep

January 15, 2013 | Christopher Butler | Comments: 0
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Editor’s Note: This article is excerpted from Christopher Butler’s Interactive column in the January/February 2013 issue of HOW magazine. Visit the iTunes Store for the iPad version of HOW. It’s … Read more

The Future Belongs to Multidisciplinary Designers

January 3, 2013 | Christopher Butler | Comments: 0
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Forward-thinking designers see the links between design and everything else in the world—we must be Renaissance men and women. Read more

Website Prototyping, part 3: The Structure of Prototyping

November 20, 2012 | Christopher Butler | Comments: 0
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Editor’s note: This is the third of a 3-part series by HOW Books author and HOW Interactive Design Conference speaker Christopher Butler on prototyping for web design. All 3 articles are excerpted from his book, The Strategic … Read more

Website Prototyping, part 2: The Language of Prototyping

November 12, 2012 | Christopher Butler | Comments: 0
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Editor’s note: This is the second of a 3-part series by HOW Books author and HOW Interactive Design Conference speaker Christopher Butler on prototyping for web design. All 3 articles are excerpted from his book, The Strategic … Read more

Website Prototyping, part 1: Why Prototyping Matters

November 5, 2012 | Christopher Butler | Comments: 0
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Editor’s note: This is the first of a 3-part series by HOW Books author and HOW Interactive Design Conference speaker Christopher Butler on prototyping for web design. All 3 articles … Read more

6 Tips to Simplify Your Website’s Design

October 2, 2012 | Christopher Butler | Comments: 0
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Most websites we visit are far more complex than they need to be—overrun with advertisements, social media widgets, and lures to even more (supposedly related) content. Follow these tips to cut the clutter. Read more

Everything We Do Today Will Change

August 29, 2012 | Christopher Butler | Comments: 0
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Christopher Butler explores a few themes that will resonate in the field of design in the next few years. Read more

Big Thoughts from The Strategic Web Designer

August 14, 2012 | Christopher Butler | Comments: 2
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We often struggle with being able to distinguish between what the web is and what the web enables us to do. So, then, what is the web? Read more

Are You Designing for the Right Customer?

August 9, 2012 | Christopher Butler | Comments: 0
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Web design is a lot like designing a store: You need to understand the customers and remove barriers to sale. The best way to do this is with user personas. Read more