Everyone has at least one thing they learned to do the wrong way. Anything from spelling a word to playing a sport, or perhaps even driving! Yet, even after discovering the right way of doing it, most people still continue with their bad old habits. And this is no surprise […]
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If you’re reading this blog post because you’re trying to avoid doing something you don’t enjoy, I have a suggestion for you. Stop. If you’re not enjoying the task you’re on, do something else. Stop?! But I’ll never get anything done! The employee mindset tells us we must do the […]
Hands up all those using Firebug. Of course you are. It’d be madness not to. Despite using Firebug almost every day for 5 years, I’m still finding new features and widgets. Here’s one you may have missed… When inspecting links, Firebug shows the default CSS state, i.e. styles applied to […]
One of the most overlooked new features of HTML5 is Microdata. Microdata allows us to more specifically categorize and label our web content in a machine-readable way. Why this is important is because it may positively affect your search results. When you search for something on Google or elsewhere, you […]
You’ve probably heard the saying, “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.” As a telemarketing manager, it used to baffle me how two people could deliver the exact same pitch and yet one would set five times more appointments than the other. I’ve come to believe that […]
By Emily Smith 21st Jul 2011 UX Inspiration 0 App ideas follow us around everywhere. I went to the salon last month and heard about my stylist’s “money maker” idea. At a friend’s house last week I heard yet another app idea. My neighbors have app ideas. Perfect strangers tell […]
It’s no secret that Google has come late to the social media party, so when they launched Buzz last year, I wasn’t the least bit interested. I felt the same when Google+ was recently announced. But then a strange thing happened. First, I read that many people like me (i.e., […]
Fonts have made the most dramatic visual impact on the web since graphic support was added to browsers. A few years ago, it would be impossible to find a website using anything other than Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, Times New Roman or Georgia (or, heaven forbid, Comic Sans). While there’s nothing […]