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Two Things About Web Design

an Article published on August 9, 2011

...Mood boards have prevented many headaches in the design process since they can be produced relatively fast and don’t’deal with any specific site content or architecture— which allows the client to focus solely on design. ————————————————————————- “Two Things” Bonus:...

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Fixing Bugs and the "Five Whys" of the Toyota Production System

an Article written by Dave Mello on February 17, 2014

...believe indicate a bug. If your first reaction on witnessing a bug or seeing a bug report is “that’s impossible,” you are plainly wrong. Don’t’waste a single neuron on the train of thought that begins “but that can’t happen”...

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Screens Within Screens

an Article written by Christopher Butler on February 9, 2009

...to under one hour per day! Clearly Newfangled employees are going to be on the fringe here: we spend all day on the internet (so, roughly 7.5 hours per day) and probably comparatively little watching television (several of us don’t...

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Update on Adding Your Name and Image to Google Search Results

an Article published on January 15, 2013

...letting the big search engines know that you’re reliable and authoritative.  It can take a while for these efforts to work, and you shouldn’t abandon any SEO efforts after a short period, even if you don’t’see results quickly.  ...

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Web Design 101: Matching Colors on the Web

an Article published on March 9, 2009

Question: Why don’t’the colors on my website match the colors of my printed brochure? Answer: Matching colors from print to web is challenging because of the two different mediums. Colors in print are created by visible light reflecting off...

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Forget the Fold, Part 2

an Article published on April 19, 2013

...deeper into the content. In this post I’ll highlight some instances when thinking about the fold makes sense, and when it doesn’t. What Fold? Amazon and CNN don’t’really have a “fold” but they do have content zones in which...

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The Internet is a Work in Progress

an Article written by Christopher Butler on March 3, 2009

...planning consultation to our clients, and are constantly making suggestions for improvements and new things to do with their web applications, our clients don’t’really need us to keep the momentum of web activity going at their companies. Even in...

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Check Your Social Network Privacy Settings!

an Article written by Christopher Butler on March 2, 2009

...perspectives,’ she says. They are particularly well suited to academic work, where researchers need to keep up with a number of far-flung colleagues. Just don’t’forget that what you say on Facebook is often flung far, and you should work...

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Three Necessary Disciplines for Technology Companies

an Article written by Christopher Butler on February 27, 2009

This is the full presentation (with audio) from our annual winter retreat. The slides don’t’all look great- I’m not sure what happens with SlideShare’s compression- but you’ll get the gist of it all with the audio. Three Essential Disciplines...

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The Snarky Side of Technological Progress

an Article written by Christopher Butler on February 24, 2009

Louis CK on Conan O’Brien: “Now we live in an amazing world and it’s wasted on the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots that don’t’care.”...

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