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Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

Synchronize your iTunes Library across all computers? Go Mojo!

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Mojo (from software development firm Deusty Designs) is a desktop application that allows you to share your iTunes library with other, specific Mojo users across local networks or the Internet. The differences between Mojo and other P2P file-sharing applications are pretty significant. First, you have to actually have friends using ...

Designer to Client: Please let me do my Job

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

In the design world, every designer knows the absolute quickest way to completely ruin a great design. Receive feedback from your client. That's it. Once a client begins tapping into their vast design expertise, everything the designer loved about a once-beautiful, well-thought-out design will quickly travel down the familiar path ...

Mowing the Backyard: Website Content vs Design

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

If you're anything like me, keeping your website content fresh, updated, and relevant is like mowing the backyard... it always comes last on the to do list. You see, I mow the front yard religiously because everyone sees it when they drive past my house. I just don't pay much ...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Takes Heat for Website Redesign

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch released a redesigned STLtoday.com today and editor Kurt Greenbaum was greeted by a flurry of comments blasting the new design and pointing out numerous bugs, some causing big usability issues, such as ads floating over the drop-down navigation and a Site Map page that was completely ...

Where Were You When TomCruise.com Launched?

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Well, folks, it's official. TomCruise.com launched today just prior to Tom's appearance on Oprah. It's been 25 years since "Risky Business" debuted in theaters and 27 years since the start of Tom's acting career. Oddly enough, a few years ago I found out I have a connection to Tom Cruise, ...