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App of the Week – Pulse
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 2:42 pm
If you’re anything like me, every morning consists of checking multiple websites for current news, entertainment, design, sports news and technology. Now there is an app for Android and iPhone that allows you to choose sites you would like to receive news feeds from. Pulse, designed by Alphonso Labs, brings all the content together in a [...]
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Site of the Week: jessandruss.us
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:08 am
Never before has a wedding invitation struck me as unique. Classy? Trendy? Elegant? Those are better-suited descriptions for invitations I have received over the years. Jessica Hische and Russ Maschmeyer have taken things to a new level. The fluid animations, intimate storytelling, flowing transitions and heart-warming message conveyed here brought some of my friends [...]
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User Attention Span
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 2:32 pm
I’ve worked on a lot of websites and one thing I am often impressed by is how little many clients understand the basic behavior and attention span of the average user. According to Statistic Brain, most people have only an 8-second attention span (it might be even shorter). It follows that if you don’t engage [...]
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App of the Week: iTranslate Voice
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 4:36 pm
International travel is one of life’s many luxuries. Sometimes however, potential travelers hold back because of the potential for a language barrier. So, this week we bring you a $0.99 iPhone/iPad App that attempts to break that barrier. iTranslate Voice allows two users who have completely different native tongues to communicate using their voice. For [...]
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Site of the Week: Art.sy
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Introducing Art.sy: the Pandora of the art world. The platform, also known as the Art Genome Project, was conceived in 2009 by twenty-something computer science grad, Carter Cleveland. Art.sy’s mission is to “make all of the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.” The Art.sy database contains over 15,000 works of art by [...]
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Managing Client Expectations
Posted on June 15, 2012 at 2:39 pm
I’m going to talk a little bit about something we in the industry have to deal with every day, managing a client’s expectations. Most of the time they fall into three major categories: how it is done?; how long will it take?; and, of course, what do I get for my money? Most clients for [...]