UI Design

5 Steps to optimizing your website’s click-through rates with Google’s Website Optimizer

Posted on February 21, 2008. Filed under: Google, UI Design, analytics, marketing |

If you could change a headline, graphic, or promotional text on your website and increase click-through or conversion rates, would you do it? Of course you would. However, knowing what to change can be a challenge. Even more challenging is tracking which changes have the most effect. This was a daunting task, until now. Google’s [...]

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3 Reasons Why I’m Switching to the Flock Browser

Posted on January 25, 2008. Filed under: UI Design, Web 2.0, browsers, technology |

For some reason I was having some issues publishing content on a social network so I copied the link and decided to try the function using the Flock browser. It worked fine, and within a few minutes I discovered several exciting things that have me considering a switch. Here are the 3 initial reason’s why [...]

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3 Reasons Why I’m Sitching to the Flock Browser

Posted on December 31, 2007. Filed under: UI Design, technology |

For some reason I was having some issues publishing content on a social network so I copied the link and decided to try the function using the Flock browser. It worked fine, and within a few minutes I discovered several exciting things that have me considering a switch. Here are the 3 initial reason’s why [...]

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MIT’s John Maeda – Custom Reebok

Posted on November 19, 2007. Filed under: UI Design, social media |

John Maeda, author of best selling book “The laws of simplicity” discusses designing a custom Reebok shoe. Maeda is a computer scientist, MIT professor, and Esquire magazine “21 Geniuses” award winner, who creates graphics using algorithms and programming codes, specializing in digital media and motion graphics. What’s unique about this design is the inside of the [...]

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Content-Aware Image Sizing

Posted on August 22, 2007. Filed under: UI Design, Video |

Ariel Shamir of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science in Israel has developed a promising technology that enables image resizing that is much more intelligent than rescaling or cropping. See the amazing video for details. Hopefully this tool will find its way into Adobe CS4.

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Brilliant New TED Conference Website

Posted on June 29, 2007. Filed under: UI Design, Video |

The TED organization (TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design) runs an invitation-only conference every year for the famous, brilliant and well connected. I’ve been on the waiting list for a few years. Last I subscribed (iTunes Link) to the TED conference video podcasts and have been enjoying the 20 minute presentations each morning on the tread [...]

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Microsoft Surface

Posted on May 31, 2007. Filed under: UI Design, Video, microsoft |

Jeff Han presented his Multi-Touch sensing work at the TED Conference 2006 and it looks like Microsoft has turned it into a product.  At the D: All Things Digital conference Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled Microsoft Surface, the first in a new category of surface computing products from Microsoft that will “break down traditional barriers [...]

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Using Ajax to Declutter Pages

Posted on May 10, 2007. Filed under: AJAX, UI Design, Web 2.0 |

With Web 2.0 there’s so many ‘ Long Tail’ possibilities for content that you can result in too many visual elements on the screen. Print, email, bookmarks, comments, trackbacks, tags and metadata. Applying Ajax creatively can allow for a much more focused experience.

Social bookmarking sites are popular these days, allowing alternative (to email) ways [...]

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Web 2.0 Directory

Posted on April 30, 2007. Filed under: Mashups, UI Design, Web 2.0 |

GO2WEB20.net is a fun way to explore the world of Web 2.0 solutions. The site uses a Flash/AJAX application to display almost 1,200 logos. You can quickly filter the display by keyword or you can select a tag from a tag cloud. As you roll-over each logo a tooltip displays the name and description [...]

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Digitas is Hiring!

Posted on April 10, 2007. Filed under: AJAX, MITX, UI Design, Web 2.0 |

If you are looking for a great online marketing job, if you are a stellar Flash designer or developer, a copy writer looking for some kick, you’ve got talent for digital communications and you want a great job – well my company is hiring.
Digitas designs, builds, and runs the large-scale marketing engines that [...]

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    An early pioneer in interactive media, Dean Whitney is a Web 2.0 and Social media technology evangelist.

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