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16 pixels for body copy. Anything less is a costly mistake

Oct
2011
Categories: Design Also tagged: ,

I know what you’re thinking “did he just say 16 pixels? For body copy? Obnoxiously big! 12 pixels is ideal for most websites.” I’d like to persuade you otherwise. As usability expert Oliver Reichenstein says in “The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard”: [16 pixels] is not big. It’s the text size browsers display by default. It’s the text [...]

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Google engineer: here’s why google+ is failing

Oct
2011
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Last night, Google engineer, blogger, and frequent public speaker Steve Yegge wrote an epic rant about Google’s inept handling of the Google+ platform. His primary message: Google+ is not a platform like Facebook. It’s trying to dictate the direction of Google+ instead of opening up to developers and letting them show Google what makes sense and what doesn’t. He [...]

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Social media chatter

Oct
2011
Categories: Social Media Also tagged: ,

It cracks me up whenever I see a PowerPoint presentation that uses social media quotes as support points. The quotes are intended to demonstrate that there’s a whole movement of consumers that agree with the argument in the presentation. Skimming social media is DIY market research. Marketers can do it themselves without requiring agencies, budget, [...]

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Raising geek kids

Oct
2011
Categories: Trends Also tagged: ,

Being a nerd is a good thing in our house. My daughters both love being creative, working with technology and learning new things. They proudly identify themselves as geeks. For a long time now I’ve had a goal to raise children that are creative problem solvers – the kind of people that encounter a problem and [...]

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Write to be understood. Speak to be heard. Read to grow.

Sep
2011
Categories: Websites Also tagged:

One of the sweetest parts of being a parent is finding some memento from your kids’ past. My son Michael made this bookmark, probably in fourth grade. The thoughts are from his teacher and referred to a writing and reading program they’d just started. It’d been pinned to a cork board in our kitchen for [...]

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Tumblr’s amazing success shows the importance of design for startups

Aug
2011
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Tumblr is the little engine that could. Despite getting much less media attention than juggernauts like Twitter which got started around the same time, despite a very painful growing period (which seems largely over) where the site experienced serious downtime because of scaling, Tumblr is talking about raising money at a $800 million valuation, as we reported. [...]

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How strong is your password?

Aug
2011
Categories: Funny Also tagged:

Visit site By x k c d.

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What do people type in the address bar?

Aug
2011
Categories: Browser Also tagged:

Earlier this year, I added a feature to URL Fixer (a browser add-on that fixes errors in URLs that you type in the address bar) that collects anonymous usage stats from users who opt in in order to help improve the ways that URL Fixer corrects typos; the collected data includes domains that are typed in [...]

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The difference (and relationship) between usability and user experience

Aug
2011
Categories: Websites Also tagged:

  After web site accessibility, “user experience” (abbreviated as UX) is probably the phrase that most people tend to confuse usability with. Whilst this topic has been discussed by various experts in the respective fields, I feel the need to write about it for two main reasons. The first reason is that several posts I have [...]

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Ultimate blogger’s guide to search engine optimization

Jun
2011
Categories: Business Also tagged: ,

In the competitive world of search engine optimization (SEO), your business blog is a critical tool for your success. Why is blogging so important to your search engine visibility? Because search engines serve up web pages—not websites—when people ask a question. And here’s the important part: Every blog post is a new web page and every [...]

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