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Design tips for your QR code

Dec
2011
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The QR code: A thing of beauty or an eyesore? The magical barcodes that can be scanned by a smartphone to launch an offline-to-online experience are often criticized for their black and white checkerbox appearance. Those who doubt that QR codes will go mainstream are quick to point out that the look of QR codes will [...]

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Little big details

Dec
2011
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Get your daily dose of UI inspiration… Visit site  

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Redesigning the country selector

Dec
2011
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During our recent checkout study we found several usability issues when using a drop-down for your country selector: a lack of overview, unclear sorting, scrolling issues, inconsistent UIs, a lack of context on mobile devices, and finally, they break the user’s tab-flow. So we took it upon ourselves to redesign the country selector. Using principles of progressive [...]

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For those who have heard Dan talking about social objects for beginners (and those who haven’t)

Nov
2011
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As y’all will know, I’m fond of talking about “Social Objects” and how they pertain to“Marketing 2.0″. Even so, some people still get confused by what a Social Object actually is. So I wrote the following to clarify some more: The Social Object, in a nutshell, is the reason two people are talking to each other, [...]

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Do’s and don’ts of call to action pages

Nov
2011
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Good call to action pages (including landing pages and sales pages) are an important part of any website that either sells or asks visitors to sign up for something. An effective call to action page can increase conversions and signups by a hundred percent or more (sometimes much more). As designers, we should know exactly what [...]

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A guide to generating leads on LinkedIn

Nov
2011
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To me, LinkedIn has always seemed like more of a place to hunt for a new gig than anything else. And since I haven’t been in the job market for a while, I’ve paid it little mind. Plus, I’ve always thought LinkedIn was kind of … well, boring. If Facebook is a rave at a [...]

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Top 4 reasons your beautiful website doesn’t convert

Nov
2011
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There can be many pitfalls on the way to getting traffic to that beautiful site you created. All the design and creativity in the world won’t bring visitors to your site. You have to know a few basic laws of optimizing a webpage for search before the traffic will begin to flow in your direction. [...]

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Corporate logos in CSS

Nov
2011
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Find out how to draw the twitter logo (amongst others) with no images, no JS just CSS. Visit site

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The invisible side of design

Oct
2011
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As designers, we tend to get distracted by aesthetics of our designs, and often do not pay enough attention to the other, invisible side of our creations. This talk discusses the value of functionality, storytelling and thorough editorial work in Web. It argues about the significance of purpose, context and quality in our decisions. It [...]

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

Oct
2011
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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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