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Decluttering the web, Readability and new revenues Paid Members Public
Page loading speed, readability and efficiency have all been topics of debate here in the last six months, driven by great work by some of our architects. This is, I think, A Good Thing. It’s both good site hygiene. Increasing broadband speeds have made many people complacent about how
Creating a New Yorker cover Paid Members Public
Lovely video of a cover illustration being created: We need more really great magazine covers. [via A Hundred Dance Moves Per Minute [http://sgrblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/bob-staake.html]]
#likeminds - Delighting Users Immersive liveblog Paid Members Public
(Liveblogging – prone to error, typos and inaccuracy. And possible bias in this session…) Starting the second day of Like Minds in the Delighting Users session, and feeling slightly suspicious, because I’ve just realised that it’s essentially a Windows Phone 7-derived session. That said, the new mobile OS has
dConstruct 2010: discomfort, irritation and reducing Paid Members Public
I’m down in Brighton for dConstruct [http://2010.dconstruct.org/], a conference I’ve heard plenty about over the years, but never actually managed to attend. And so far, it’s proving an interesting morning. It’s certainly challenging some of the preconceived notions I see in play in
Weekend Coffee Reading Paid Members Public
Lurking around in my browser tabs: - [On Makers and Managers](http://kristinelowe.blogs.com/kristine_lowe/2010/01/on-makers-and-managers-and-how-to-manage-your-day.html) – good look at the tension between these two roles that should be familiar to most people in journalism - [The Death of Tag Clouds](http://woorkup.com/2010/01/
Covering Our Future (or where are the designers?) Paid Members Public
I don’t write much about print on here, but long-time readers will know I’m not a “print is dead” type. I do believe that print will have to change and evolve to deal with the changing environment – much as theatre had to after the coming of cinema and
Mobile FT.com is a River of News Paid Members Public
I have a pet theory, one that is not widely shared amongst my colleagues. I think that what we now know as news sites will come to resemble what we now know as blogs. I don’t mean this in the broader sense of the conversational use of blogs so
Web 2.0 Expo Berlin: The Wednesday Keynotes Paid Members Public
Leisa Reichelt – Drupal.org redesign How do you design for a large Open Source Community? That was the problem Leisa Reichelt [http://www.disambiguity.com/] faced when commissioned to do the redesign of the Drupal.org [http://www.drupal.org/] site. “You can’t do it behind closed doors,” she
