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This afternoon, in a fit of frustration, I sat down and remade the website for UPS as I would like to see it remade. That is, how it should be remade to best serve the principal need of the customers.
Creating this little monster took about 5 minutes, but quickly spread around the web [...]
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I do hate myself a little for compiling an end-of-year top ten list, but in the spirit of professional altruism, I’m sharing with you, dear readers, ten brilliant blogs I’ve discovered, and have since become addicted to, in 2009. In no particular order:
1. It’s Nice That Touches my soft spot for Britain and provides daily [...]
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Facebook’s proposed new homepage design
Facebook is set to redesign their homepage after little more than a month since the last major update. The new version emphasises different stuff and organises content in an easier-to-access manner. I don’t want to go into the full details, especially since Mashable has done just that.
Lately I’ve been paying more [...]
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Facebook Facelift – Home & Profiles from wearetol on Vimeo.
I have to admit, I don’t often say “wow” to a website redesign, but this video definitely caught my attention. Talk about a radical approach.
What I like here is the large-scale rethink of the site. It’s no longer a news-based page, it’s an application. Almost like [...]
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Finally!
I’ve been using Twitter for about a year and a half now, and one thing that has always bugged me was the gruesome default avatar assigned to people who, for whatever reason, have chosen not to upload a photo. I have remarked that they shouldn’t let you send any tweets until you upload some [...]
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… the results are hilarious. Rachel Maddow explains it all.
Listen folks, if you’re trying to send a powerful message, and trying (desperately) to desuade the public from an opinion that is clearly logical and practical, please make the extra effort to license exclusive rights to photos! Better yet, hire a photographer and get the exact [...]
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This may be a small touchpoint of greater happenings, but whitehouse.gov was changed at noon today. Out with the old, in with the new.
PS, what do you think of the design for whitehouse.gov? Pretty sharp for a government site, methinks. I wonder if the team behind that is on the White House Communications payroll or [...]
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