photo credit: riddle_ Let’s talk for a moment about design “artifacts” (or ”deliverables” or “documentation” or whaever you call them.) They take up a lot of time. I’ve worked on some projects where, by the time we’ve done dozens of wireframes in high-detail, we could have coded a working prototype of our idea. But if [...]
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Does the New York Times Need a Redesign?
A beautiful visualization on the NYTimes today from survey data of how Americans spend their time: sleep, working, eating, watching TV, etc. You can sort by age group, employment, education, and more. I love the simple animated transition when you click through different filters. And how the color and layout make look like layers of [...]
“Beta” doesn’t have to look bad
I think the new agency site for CP+B is fantastic for three reasons: The aggregation concept is a solid approach for companies (@Jowyang points that out) — bringing together all the conversations around a company from across the web fits the paradigm of open and transparent. They’ve launched the site in an “open-beta,” the same [...]
Average Time Spent on site: 56 seconds.
FIFTY SIX SECONDS. Is all the time a person will spend watching your loading animation, clicking through your site, reading your copy, and watching your content. A 60-second spot. That’s longer than I thought, to be honest. I must have the attention span of a goat on the web, and people younger than me, probably [...]
One Too Many Websites
Could Obama’s White House really just be a legion of wannabe website designers and domain squatters?
An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg
Dear Mark, I know the Huffington Post ranted about it, and that you’ve probably been inundated with commentary recently, and that realistically, dear Mark, you’ll never read this, but I wanted to write you a letter about how to fix your website, “The Facebook,” which is broken now that someone hacked into it and did [...]
