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Time's Top 50 Websites of 2010
Congrats to Kongregate (one of our past clients) on their continued success and recognition!
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Don't forget the bigger picture
Using pictures to explain specialization.
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Use advertising to describe the experience
- 6 Aug 2010
- Robby Russell says... Check out this link
3 comments Last comment by Becky
One social media tip: first build a good customer experience“It’s no use spending time, money, or effort to entice people into a product or service if it just leads to a bad experience. Why? Because those people you carefully encouraged and nudged into your circle? They go right back into the cloud, spreading the news about their bad experience.”
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EpicWinApp
To-do list + RPG = clever spin on doing chores. iPhone app coming soon.
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English Place Names
While working on a project, Carlos asked Gary what Ham meant in English town names. A google search and a few minutes later, we came across the answer.
“ham or tun meaning ‘homestead’ and ‘farmstead’ respectively”
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Yoga Today - Ambassador Program
We just helped launch Yoga Today’s new affiliate program, which provides their customers with tools to share their product and earn points towards free subscription months.
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The Digital Deca
Lisa Welchman describes Web Phrenology as the science of understanding an organization’s strengths and weaknesses by examining their Web presence. This brief ebook clarifies how organizational dysfunction can affect your company’s web site.
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"No Dashes or Spaces" Hall of Shame
This site shows screenshots from applications that require you to enter data in a specific format without any dashes or spaces. Classic.
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Portland saves you time
- 16 Mar 2010
- Robby Russell says... Check out this link
3 comments Last comment by Crycleindense
21 top time-saving cities“According to a survey by Real Simple, the living is surprisingly easy in these urban areas.
Takeout on every corner. Easy access to a doctor. Timed traffic lights. These conveniences can ease even the most chaotic days.”Portland ranks #2 in the country!
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New Studio Warming Party
We’re planning to have a small party next month on April 1st, 2010. If you’re in the Portland, Oregon area, be sure to RSVP on our site.
We swear… this isn’t an April Fool’s joke! ;-)
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Episode 4: The hiring process
We just published a new entry to our podcast. In this episode we discuss our recent UX Designer hiring process. Enjoy!
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Portland's iPhone application
- 6 Feb 2010
- Robby Russell says... Check out this link
2 comments Last comment by Jude
City of Portland Citizen Reports
The City of Portland has released a free iPhone application that allows people to report problems with any of the city infrastructures. This means that if you’re walking down the street and notice a pot hole, graffiti, knocked over trees, street signs, etc… you can stop, take a photo, and report it right there.
Look forward to hearing how well this works out for the city. Would be interested in knowing if they’ll be opening up the data collected as well.
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Conversion Rate Optimisation Case Study
While I generally enjoy the articles on Web Design from Scratch, I found a problem in this article about a/b testing. Take the following excerpt…
“We will look at the test results over the coming weeks to see if our prediction is correct, and use these results to formulate possible follow-on tests to further increase conversion rate.”’
“Results of the test will be posted here once we can see a clear winner.”
The author then invites the audience to check out the new design, which immediately left me wondering if this might skew the results.
“In the meantime, check out Rankmill.com, and start sharing your own Top Lists.”
It’s my prediction that Rankmill.com will see an increase in traffic from people that might not be their typical audience. This new wave of visitors will be coming through via this article, RSS feeds, twitter posts, and other referring sites. Once they get to the site, I predict that they’ll either…
a) See the old design and reload the page to see if the new design shows up. When it doesn’t, they’ll leave the site (increased bounce rates with the old design)
b) See the new design and experiment with the new UI for a bitIf my prediction is correct, might an upswing in new traffic (from people who know about the test) result in conclusions that the new design is more effective? I worry that the experiment is now contaminated and would be skeptical of any results that didn’t properly account for this.
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Experiment: Twitter Usability
It’s always fascinating to watch people try to interact with tools for that time, especially those that we take use on a regular basis.
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Apple Courts Publishers, While Kindle Adds Apps
As a Kindle owner (and raving fan), I’m curious what Amazon’s strategy is with this move. I purchased the Kindle for what it does well, which is allow me to read books. Hopefully they’ll not dilute the experience of picking up the kindle, turning it on, seeing my recently viewed books, and start reading.
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EightShapes Unify
We’ve been using this framework for Adobe InDesign to package up our strategy-related client deliverables.
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Planet Argon Podcast
We recently started a new podcast that covers various topics related to the projects that they work on. We invite you to check it out.
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Watch the video
I gave a talk titled, “Launching projects with Ruby on Rails” in London this last summer. They’ve recently posted the video online to watch.
