If you’ve visited a tech blog or even skimmed through your Twitter timeline recently, you probably know that wearable technology, like the Apple Watch or Google Glass, is making a huge splash in the tech industry.
You may be wondering how you could ever use a website the size of a postage stamp on a wearable....
Continue ReadingHow many unread emails are in your inbox right now?
I’ve got Groupon, Linkedin, The Boston Globe, my alma mater, Ticketmaster, Rent the Runway, Zipcar, Proflowers, Bluehost, and Seamless. I could go on.
I’ll delete most without opening.
The ones I do open? I skim them....
When the Mashable site was redesigned into the now familiar grid layout, I wrote a blog post bellyaching about the infinite scroll, various usability issues and somehow Jakob Nielsen. I’m still not a big fan of the grid approach to website design because it’s not design, it’s the process of dumping content into boxes that descend like fish food over time to the bottom of the page and I find that solution lacking creativity....
Continue ReadingOnline petitions are a proven way for non-profits and advocacy groups to demonstrate support for the causes they care about and to grow their email lists. Despite their prevalence, a lot of online petitions consist of little more of a few sentences of text and a sign up form. Check out these five groups that took the time to create inventive and inspiring online petitions....
Continue ReadingIf you ask a web developer what they think of Internet Explorer they will probably tell you how awful it is in very colorful language. If you ask them specifically about Internet Explorer 7 they will either burst into tears or punch you in the face. You see, over the last four years that web developer is likely to have wasted hundreds of hours implementing hacks to make theirs sites work in IE7,...
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