- 10 UI design patterns you should be paying attention to — Smashing Magazine
- jQuery for absolute beginners — Nettuts +
- Let’s make the web faster — Google blog
- Download iPhone GUI PSD 3.0 — teehan+lax
- Design for mobile wiki: resources for designing and building apps and sites — Little Springs Design
- Rupert Murdoch’s web ambitions — The Guardian
- MySpace is forced to slash workforce — The Guardian
Outstanding Achievement!
A big congratulations to the team at CumminsNitro!
They have just been awarded 2 Grand Prix awards at the Cannes Lions 2009 56th International Advertising Festival for their ‘Best Job in the World’ campaign.
For those of you who have been living under a rock and managed to miss the publicity that surrounded this very successful campaign, head to the Cannes Lions 2009 website to check out their awards for Public Relations and Direct Marketing.
Great job guys!…
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I came across this typographic time waster today. Create a word from your Mac icon dock! See more or submit your own on Mike Giepert’s blog.
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Another great stop motion video.
- 12 excellent free tools for monitoring your sites uptime — Six Revisions
- iPhone OS on a touchscreen monitor — CrunchGear
- Stop counting clicks — UX Booth
- Informative and useful footers — Smashing Magazine
- Secrets of a nimble giant — The Guardian
- Mobile phone flies plane — The Courier Mail
- Check my colours — See if the colours on your website provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits
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Google Chrome competition
- Interactive data visualisations — Creativity Online
- 5 reasons why a digital agency should take usability seriously — Experience Solutions
- Google takes its cameras out onto hiking and biking tracks — USA Today
- Is Microsoft’s new Bing search engine better than Google? — The Guardian Online
- Student photographers battle for spot on iGoogle — The Guardian Online
- Technology is there to make work and life easier — the trick is to avoid fads — BRW
- Showcase Of Popular Automobiles Websites — Instant Shift
- Wireframing Ahoy! — UX Mag
Write Interesting Emails & Avoid the Inbox Vortex
This article, Write Interesting Emails & Avoid the Inbox Vortex was originally published on Digital Ministry on 2 June, 2009.
By now most marketing decision makers know that Email Marketing campaigns can be a wonderfully effective way to communicate. But how do you avoid getting lost in the Inbox vortex?
You probably get 100s of these emails yourself – the ones you haven’t read in months but that you can’t be bothered unsubscribing from. David Smerdon from Vision 6 refers to it as being ‘unemotionally subscribed’.
It’s also known as list fatigue and usually happens because the emails are no longer (or never have been) interesting or relevant.…
Continue ReadingOde to Google
Google just keeps getting bigger and bigger. They should be moving into evil corporation territory, yet with the imminent release of Google Wave, I still can’t help but love them. Here are five reasons why:
1. (Almost) everything is free.
Wired.com calls it “freeconomics”, Microsoft calls it “Holy $#&%! What are we going to do?????”. From Gmail, to Google Analytics; Google Docs, to Google Earth – it won’t cost you a cent. The user (you) is happy: you get to use a great application for nothing. Google is happy: they make money through advertising spend.…
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MSN vs GOOGLE – Search Engine Rap Battle
- Turn your own handwriting into a font! — Fontifier
- How to listen to the user and hear the experience — Usability Post
- Australian businesses are missing out on the internet’s untapped potential — BRW
- 15 essential issues for the creative community — Inspired Magazine
- Apple vs Microsoft: a website usability study — Web Designer Depot
- 8 tips for maintaining a user friendly site in one hour a month — UX Booth
- The evolution of a website design — Think Vitamin
Excuse me Mister, but your website is bloody awful!!
The problem with poorly designed websites might not be incompetent user-experience and graphic designers, but a stifling corporate culture.
This is what blogger Dustin Curtis discovered when he wrote an open letter on his blog to the team behind the American Airlines website.
In his letter, he spoke of the dissatisfying experience he had booking a flight on the AA website. He wrote:
… Continue ReadingHow did this happen? If I was running a company with the distinction and history of American Airlines, I would be embarrassed — no ashamed — to have a website with a customer experience as terrible as the one you have now.
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- Web design industry jargon glossary and resources — Smashing Magazine
- 20 Facebook tips you might not know — Hongkiat
- AudioBoo is new talk of the net — The Guardian
- 11 striking findings from an eye tracking study — Problogger
- Using Google Earth to visualise the toll of war — Google Lat Long Blog
- 50 excellent circular logos — Web Designer Depot
- How to create your own community website for free —Smashing Apps
- 50 iPhone apps for web designers — App Storm
- Ashton Kutcher Twitter quit threat — The Guardian UK
- Widgets everywhere!
Work from anywhere using Web 2.0
One of the beauties of being alive in the Information Age is the way technology can transform the way we do business & live our lives.
As companies embracing Web 2.0 technology can prove, it is incredibly easy to empower staff with the freedom to work from anywhere – and be more productive! We’ve been testing it & getting great results.
If you’re an employee, imagine if you didn’t have to travel everyday to work & could wear what you wanted. If you’re a CEO or business owner, imagine if your overheads were less, you could scale with ease & your staff were producing better results.…
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