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Visual Decision Making

03 Jul 2009 | Angie H

In case you're still wondering if the design of your site makes a difference, read Patrick Lynch's article at A List Apart: "Smart graphic design is always some balance of current expressive trends, information architecture, classical layout aesthetics, and detailed research on user preferences and motivations. You should never ignore solid user experience data, but mountains of data won’t auto-magically build …

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In defense of Twitter

03 Jul 2009 | Angie H

Jason Kottke: So when you run across a Twitter message like "we had chicken sandwitches & pepsi for breakfast" from someone who has around 30 followers, what's really so odd about it? It's just someone telling a few friends on Twitter what she might normally tell them on the phone, via email, in person, or in a telegram.

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Republican candidate Otten is a bold-faced thief

03 Jul 2009 | Angie H

The Graphic Mac: "Les Otten, Republican candidate for Governor of Main, has the nerve to claim that his Web site is completely original, and not a copy of President Obama's site, because "some local guys designed it."" Wow... While it's bad enough Otten is defending the design and really trying to say it's not a rip off, it's worse that designers …

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I knew there was something wrong with the Bing “logo”

02 Jul 2009 | Angie H

Armin at Brand New: I can’t even imagine how someone arrives at a design solution like this. The shapes resulting from the strenuous horizontal scaling are simply too unflattering and unattractive. There is bad taste and then there is this. What was going through the designer’s mind?

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