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Mobile Pet Peeves

Now that I sorted out this site’s mobile problems, I feel authorized to complain about mobile issues on other sites. Here are my top four pet peeves.

Aggressive App Promotion
“I’d LOVE to download your app instead of going to the webpage I just tried to …

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Why the Redesign?

Astute observers of this blog have probably noticed that I redesigned the site. Being someone who agrees with Lou Rosenfeld when he says Redesign Must Die, this wasn’t as capricious a decision as it may seem.
So why the redesign? Two reasons really. First, since joining …

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Why you should do your homepage wireframe last

When building websites, I always recommend developing the home page last because the purpose of the homepage is to highlight content within the site. You need build out the site so you have something to highlight before you build the homepage. Over the …

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Developers and Designers

A few months ago I read Lukas Mathis’ through provoking essay “Designers are not Programmers” where he makes the case for a separation between designers and developers. To summarize his argument, thinking about implementation details distracts the designer from the user and results in …

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