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Critique me, Please – 50 Weeks of UX How well can you handle critique of your work? Joshua Brewer talks about how being open to critique leads to “better communication, greater creativity and more transparency”. So should you practice being critiqued? List of common misconceptions – Wikipedia If I told you that Napoleon wasn’t unusually [...]

Harvey Norman takes to Twitter in online backflip – Dynamic Business 10 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Google – Mashable 15 Amazing Apps for File Storage in the Cloud – Web.AppStorm The greatest defunct web sites and dotcom disasters – CNET UK 11 Useful Google Chrome Extensions for Serious SEO Workers – Blog Web [...]

“Guitar Hero” Rocks Out on iPhone – Mashable Inspirational 50 Twitter Backgrounds Showcase – 1st Webdesigner Starbucks Used Social media to Get One Million to Stores in One Day – Mashable Is Facebook Getting Bigger Than Google? – Mashable The Top 8 Free Online Image Editors – Web.AppStorm 5 Gadgets That Will Transform Your Home [...]

5 Tips to Effectively Promote your Articles – Creative Overflow 25 Awesome Google Search Tips and Tricks – AppStorm Even Dolphins Love the iPad – Mashable 10 things you didn’t know about Twitter – Telegraph.co.uk New App Helps You “Game” Foursquare Mayorships – Mashable Microsoft’s own “Upgrade Your Browser” promo! How We Improved Our Conversion [...]

3 Online Tools to Backup Your Twitter Account – Madras Geek On “Out of office” replies: The Difference Between “Not Here” and “Away” – Pow! Right between the eyes! (Why not take a quick holiday to test out your new techniques?) via @SmashingMag via Fast Company How To (Further) Engage Your Readers – Noupe 7 [...]

This week’s round-up is tinged with sadness as we say goodbye to our long-standing and well-loved designer, Sarah Hyne.  Sarah’s migrating to new, lush pastures over at MAP Magazine. Sarah had been with Bluewire for two and a half years and in that time she instigated our famous “Weekly Round-up” blog posts. It’s with a [...]

Spotted: Facebook’s check-in functionality and new “Places” tab — TechCrunch Fred Wilson’s 10 golden principles of successful web apps — Think Vitamin Guidelines for writing a good ‘About’ page — Six Revisions 9 essential social news and bookmarking sites for designers — Mashable Why is business writing so awful? — Inc. 5 ways to boost [...]

The current state of web design: Trends 2010 — Smashing Magazine Google Latitude has 3 millions active users, check-ins likely on the way — TechCrunch Erik Spiekermann’s typo tips — Font Feed Facebook adding location features this month — Mashable Strategies for engaging your visitors — Six Revisions Facilitating design critique — UX Booth Social [...]

Dropbox startup lessons learned — SwissMiss Mobile web design: is it worth it? — Six Revisions Root domains, subdomains vs. subfolders and the microsite debate — SEOmoz Classification schemes (and when to use them) — UX Booth 10 new UX books to look out for in 2010 — UX Booth Wireframes as a thinking device [...]

Scott Thomas was lead designer in Obama’s 2008 successful presidential campaign. It was the first time that branding, design and social media played a pivotal role in the campaign, and here he discusses how his team managed the epic task of rolling out designs for logos, print graphics, email templates, the website interface… the list [...]