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The Non-Written Disciplines of Writing: Editing

an Article written by Christopher Butler on October 18, 2010

...the majority of spelling and grammatical mistakes, it won’t catch them all. There are all kinds of words that can appear correct to a machine that are obviously incorrect when read by a human (i.e. “John didn’t know witch door...

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Future Daydream

an Article written by Christopher Butler on January 10, 2012

...by John Napier in his book Hands. Perhaps so. But as long as screens are central to our interaction with the world, we’ll likely need to add a few to our repertoire. Undoubtedly, page turning was a tricky leap for...

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Future Daydream

a Publication written by Christopher Butler on December 11, 2012

...by John Napier in his book Hands. Perhaps so. But as long as screens are central to our interaction with the world, we’ll likely need to add a few to our repertoire. Undoubtedly, page turning was a tricky leap for...

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Simplicity

an Article written by Christopher Butler on January 29, 2009

Take a moment to watch this video of John Maeda (of MIT Media Lab fame, now President of my alma mater, RISD) speaking at the TED conference about simplicity patterns. I really enjoy Maeda’s whimsical take on simplicity in our...

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The Great Equalizer

an Article written by Christopher Butler on January 23, 2009

I’ve been reading a book titled What Are You Optimistic About? Today’s Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better, edited by John Brockman. Most of the essays in the collection are pretty short- on the order of...

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Interview: Kari Ziegler, Level Studios

an Article published on September 8, 2008

...Years ago it was all done on paper – jeez! CB: Who has influenced or helped you the most in your career? KZ: I was discussing this with my CEO about a year ago – it seems mentors are rare....

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Leadership Coaching for  Growth-Minded Business Owners and Decision Makers

a Page published on December 12, 2022

...Business Leader Too many professional coaching services focus solely on talks with the CEO. Simplified Growth involves your entire executive team. This is professional leadership coaching. It must involve all of your leaders to truly take root within your organization. ...

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Big Duck

a Case Study published on September 10, 2014

...CEO of Big Duck, letting us know about an exciting new development “In yesterday’s open house, the new director of communications for one of our ‘wish list’ clients showed up. They have been on Big Duck’s wish list for years:...

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"You don't find anything out until you start showing it to people."

an Article written by Christopher Butler on April 24, 2009

David Kelly, founder and CEO of IDEO Product Development and professor at Stanford, spoke at Stanford’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Speaker Series about design as an iterative process. You can watch his entire talk at the link I provided, but I...

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Cool HTML5 Design Features

an Article published on July 8, 2010

...hog and can really slow down browser performance. You may have heard of Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs refusing to support Flash on the iPhone and iPad. Apple, among other hardware/software manufacturers, is driving a movement towards broad implementation of HTML5...

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