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Sparklines: Intense, Simple Word-sized Graphics

an Article published on November 12, 2008

...of data points can be scanned and digested quickly; and they are much more efficient in their use of page real estate than tables of numbers. An excerpt from Professor Tuftes chapter on sparklines in his most recent book, Beautiful...

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Prototype to Site: Brahmin.com's Main Nav

an Article published on October 28, 2009

...any prototyping process, there will be some things that require stretching the imagination to envision. For this project, however, the design was one of the greatest driving factors, and we knew from the start what the general page structure would...

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Book Review: Smashing Book #3!

an Article written by Christopher Butler on May 1, 2012

The other day a chat window popped up on my Google+ page from Vitaly over at Smashing Magazine. I assumed he was getting in touch to ask me to rewrite the piece I’d just submitted—with some trepidation, I might add—critiquing...

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On Screen Design Tools

an Article published on January 3, 2008

...following on a web page: overlay a grid; measure from one point to another; display rulers and snap guides; and draw a cross hair on a page to assist with layout alignment. And theyre free. What more could you want?...

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Some Examples of Great User Interface Design for Travel Sites

an Article published on June 5, 2008

...the availability of parking (above) on the site! You can access the most up-to-date flight timetable (above) on the site, too. The tourism page (above) uses nice, bright and clear icons to represent the information it provides. Smart, Helpful Details:...

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Winter/Spring/Summer Reading

an Article written by Christopher Butler on July 28, 2010

...Cartographer by Peter Turchi I began reading this book back in February, and even quoted from its very first page in a blog post on mapping your professional network and then later in a post on the mad scientist blogger....

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Guiding Your Blog Out of the Wilderness

an Article written by Christopher Butler on March 31, 2010

...simply recording yourself speaking may allow you to develop good content much more quickly than struggling with words on a page. Once you’ve done this enough, your recordings could also be transcribed and turned into written posts. Even if you...

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fold

an Article published on March 9, 2015

...to the stories that appear on the top half of the front page, above where the paper is folded for display on a newsstand. It is the most valuable real estate on the front page because it’s on display: You...

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What Do Your Prospects Want From Your Site?

an Article written by Mark O’Brien on February 9, 2012

...to succeed in its role of informing, it must be intuitively navigable. When people arrive at your site, regardless of the page on which they initially land, they need to have an intuitive sense of exactly where they are, what...

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Offline Thinking

an Article written by Christopher Butler on January 17, 2012

...think is important or might want to reference later, I’ll get all futurey and take a picture of the page with my iPhone, which eventually makes its way to my Evernote account. It doesn’t work every time, but ideally, the...

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