I used to subscribe to lots of emails from online retailers. As a result, I have thousands of these emails stored in folders (also known as “labels”) in Gmail. After deciding it was time for a cleanup, I discovered that mass deleting emails in Gmail is not that intuitive. So, here’s how to do it. Read More
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Be Inspired By These Quotes On Creativity and Design
I really enjoyed reading through this collection of quotes on creativity and design. A selection of my favorites are below. My next goal is to start introducing them into my everyday working conversations. Read More
The New York Times: 2005 vs. 2013
I recently happened to stumble across a lost page of technology how-tos on The New York Times website that dates back to 2005.
For some reason, it hadn’t got redirected or redesigned, and I thought it was interesting to see how the design of the site has changed in the eight years since then.
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Worst Banner Ad Ever?
When you do a lot of remarketing, you’re always on the lookout for good banner ad designs and ideas. So, I couldn’t help but notice that this banner ad is the polar opposite to anything I would consider to be best practice for banner ad design. Read More
Building Your Online Reputation
This post by Seth Godin on building your backlist (or as I think of it, building your online reputation) struck a chord with me.
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Web Design Trends to Help You Spring Clean Your Resume
This post from Andy Budd on web design trends is fascinating as it shows how once popular terms such as information architecture and interaction design are falling out of favor when compared with UX design and responsive design.
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2012 US Election Maps: How the Media Presented the Results
I’m always interested in the different visual approaches that news outlets and other media organizations take to representing major news events, and this year’s presidential election was no exception. Read More
Good Online Advertising or Simply Bad Taste?
I came across this banner ad on Weather.com today from Travelers Insurance. Given that millions of people are likely to be pretty miserable over the next few days to weeks, I’m trying to decide if it is being responsive to the news of the day or is just in bad taste.
A Cautionary Tale from the Target.com Redesign
Advertising Age has a cautionary tale about the recent Target.com redesign which calls out some of the many problems that can arise during a large ecommerce project like this.