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Why should someone with a job spend time with Linkedin?

an Article written by Christopher Butler on January 9, 2009

...traffic. The first listing below is for the landing page on our site which is linked from our LinkedIn advertisement. You can see that it has generated only 30 unique visits since December 8 (not bad for during the holidays,...

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Navigating Navigation

an Article published on November 29, 2010

...I want to make it easy to find, so I will probably place it under a “products” tab, or maybe even a “Super-Products” menu item. Another common navigation mistake is cross-listing pages under different menu items.  While a page such...

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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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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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Mood Boards

an Article published on June 30, 2009

...panel showing the fabrics and colors that will be used to design a room; a mood board can set the aesthetic course of a site, but does not represent any actual architecture like a page design mockup does. Once a...

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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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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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Google Books Wins by Consistent User Interface

an Article written by Christopher Butler on March 17, 2011

...be cool to build in to the desktop and iPad versions as well (see below). Finally, Google Books offers the reader more visual options than the other platforms, including the ability to read the original page scans instead of the...

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My Mixbook for 2013

an Article written by Christopher Butler on November 13, 2013

...special delivery by interoffice mail dog, Oscar) // cc: @chrbutler @Newfangled_web ” — Tema Larter, Chapel Hill, NC   “Sick days require light reading” — Anne Aretz, Brooklyn, NY   “@chrbutler AYOI has arrived!” — Michael Babwahsingh, Bayonne, NJ  ...

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Creative Questionnaire: Andy Mangold

an Article published on February 13, 2009

...object sculpture then I’m off to the junkyard. Inspirations: Stefan Sagmeister, Stephen Doyle, Nam Jun Paik, Survival Research Labs, Fluxus, Odilon Redon, John Von Slatt, Marcel Duchamp, Theo Jansen Favorite tool: Manual hand drill passed down from my grandfather Favorite design...

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