UX, Usability Testing, & Website Coaching
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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The other day I was grabbing a salad and some spring rolls for lunch at an upscale grocery store in Houston. I used my debit card to pay, which is an almost daily exercise for most of us. Entering my [...]
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When I first dipped my toes into the pool of web design in early 1996, design tools sure were different. Designing in Photoshop 3 and 4 was tedious! Type rasterized immediately. Drop shadows and bevels were miraculous feats of lighting effects. I maintained a thick notebook full of design notes about fonts, effects, filters — [...]
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Playboy Magazine’s “What Sort Of Man Reads Playboy” advertisements from the 1960s and 1970s illustrate continuities and discontinuities between pre-internet and contemporary copywriting and design.
Before the Internet, as now, images accomplished most of the work. Playboy’s advertisements relied on a striking photograph to attract and keep the attention of the reader. On the other hand, [...]
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Remember Helvetica, the independent documentary about the world-wide proliferation of one typeface? Well, with a little help from Lady Gaga, Neutraface is the new Helvetica.
This is awesome, ya’ll.
Incidentally, what better advertising for a font (or your product/service) than a viral video? Will you pass this on to someone else? You can’t pay for advertising [...]
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