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WordPress Tutorial: What Your Clients Don’t Know – 28 Blogs Later, Day 8
A WordPress tutorial to bridge the knowledge gap. Chances are your clients don't know much about WordPress. This tutorial will help you teach them.
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Inspiration: YouMass Microsite – 28 Blogs Later, Day 7
YouMass student resource microsite: an old piece of inspiration. When I was in college, UMass Amherst's "YouMass" page inspired my earliest web designs.
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Pinterest User Experience – 28 Blogs Later, Day 2
A Pinterest user experience review: Pinterest is hard to use. Layout & visual priority are hard to navigate. And I'm not the only one who thinks so.
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28 Blogs Later: Day 1
Inspired by HubSpot's 30 Day Blogging Challenge & kickstarted by a creative dry spell, I decided to write one post every day in February.
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I can’t wait until LinkedIn gets serious with their mobile app
I can't wait until LinkedIn gets serious with their mobile app. Right now it’s garbage. The least LinkedIn could do is not make their interface terrible.
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Off to [Smaller] and Better Things
I resigned my position at StudentCity, my employer for the last 4 years. As of October 17, 2011, I work for McDougall Interactive, a digital/search marketing company in Danvers, MA. I'm sad to leave my friends and colleagues at SCC, but I'm excited for what's ahead for me with McDougall.
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UMass Amherst iPhone App
In August, I reviewed an iPhone app for the University of Massachusetts Amherst, called "UMass Guide." The app is great. It's an excellent idea and it will be very helpful to students & UMass community members.
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Designing Spring Break
I've spent the last 6 months working on a major update and redesign of StudentCity's Spring Break Destinations section. It taught me a lot about design, usability, user experience, and corporate culture.
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An Event Apart Roundup – Part 2
This is Part 2 of my roundup An Event Apart: Boston 2010. Luke W covers the mobile web, Aarron Walter discusses designing for humans, and Jared Spool dissects design decisions.
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Bad Road Sign Usability
Roads & highways are a great example of where usability really matters. The success of the highway system lies in its consistency. In all 50 states, highway signs are identical. Drivers don't guess or interpret. They just use.