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When we are given a problem to solve, we spend time thinking about the problem and reframe the issue and try many things in our head to move towards a solution. Design thinking actually takes the problem to the customer ... Via A. Kosuke, Antonios Bouris 
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Will Critchlow announced back in November that Distilled's blog was updated with a new responsive design, but it occurred to me recently that we never went into the specifics of why responsive web design is so great.
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Listening to the experts my friend Phil Buckley (@1918) lined up via Skype for his SEORaleigh session on "Technical SEO" I wrote this note:
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Brainstorming alone can be a lonely and listless experience. But not to worry. Here are nine steps to keep solo brainstorming for your design projects fresh and productive—even if you're all alone.
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Great post from the design magazine HOW on ways to do something that seems impossible - brainstorm alone. Much of what How describes in this excellent post is something I think of as "thought experiments", but keeping our minds flexible and open may be the most important "exercise" we do these days.
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Minimalist design means using simple and basic elements only in the design. This article shares 60+ beautiful web designs that showcase minimalism in web design.
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Minimal is so hard in website design. Mission creep is inevitable. We layer on more and more. Stopping that train is impossible or maybe not as these 60 website designs demonstrate.
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WordPress themes are very popular. While minimalist & clean themes are high in demand, there are also other types of themes which are less popular but still beautiful, creative and original. Here
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I am NOT a big fan of black on a website, but the color black does make images pop off the screen.
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Well-crafted sites need to fulfill their functions efficiently and engagingly.
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
I like this article's approach. Alice Rawsthorn makes understanding what good website design is easy. Good web design makes finding information easy. Love this idea, * Lack of imagination or too much imagination. * Designers easily get lost in a "Curse of Knowledge".
Miriam Murphy's comment,
February 18, 2013 1:36 PM
I think you've got some good points (as does Rawsthorn), but something about her approach rankled me a bit. Web design isn't like architecture; it's much younger and has had to grow much faster. While we may not like to admit it, I think that web design is still riding that very chaotic wave of the early years of the Internet; we may have streamline what we do and how it should look, but we're only just pinpointing that and examining further strategies for a long-run approach. Frog on Top has a good criticism of the article, http://www.frogontop.com/detail.php?id=52 . I agree that bloated animations and navigation issues are really problematic and that sites are prone to dumb mistakes, but there's a larger historical context to consider sometimes!'
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Just create great content. That’s the clearest most useful advice anyone can give you about content marketing. The better your content the more effective it
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Great tips here on how to insure your Awesome content gets social shares. Oh, and here is a post I wrote a few days ago: http://scenttrail.blogspot.com/2013/01/6-secrets-to-create-awesome-content.html
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Designer Tom Muller thinks big brands getting on board will lead to agencies “increasingly using responsive design as a major selling point, persuading clients to future-proof digital marketing communications”.
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Here are my top 5 from th: 2. Leaner more systems architected websites (less static design). 3. Growth of open source design. 4. New tools for web design and management. 5. More Video, storytelling & personality. Great list and I agree with most of it especially those five. 2013 feels like a watershed year anyway you cut it. Some stuff is baked enough to be useful other stuff is new and cool. Growth in Ecom will continue and we are all going to be doing more with less thanks to cool tools. Read my 5 Magical Do More With Less Curation Tools
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Another year has passed, which means it’s time for our annual instalment of design predictions for the coming year. In technology, one year can make a
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Great panel here on what is hot in web design for 2013. Here is my favorite list from David Sachs:
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Cure Cancer Starter Campaign Page
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Cue Cancer Starter - Tech Cures Cancer * Back This Project area with how much as been raised and time to go. * Social Shares - if a person's profile settings allow sharing here their picture will appear with a snippet about why they donated. Can also click to see the donor's profile again depending on security.
Instead of highlighting someone else designs, I thought I would share a very early and very rough draft of where we are going on Cure Cancer Starter.
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The legendary artist discusses "Belief+Doubt" at the Hirshhorn Museum. with Complex.com.
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Kruger's legendary use of Madison Avenue tactics as subversive art help create a movement. By coopting the mechanics of Mad Men era advertising Kruger created arresting designs usually with three basic colors: red, black and white.
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The design and personal development blog of Ash Menon, graphic and web designer.
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Love this format. Don't agree with every "noteworhy" point, but, on balance there is a lot to learn here about what makes a website design special, engaging and worth staring at.
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A powerful color scheme can make or break your entire website. It's important that when designer's plan on a layout they take all aspects into consideration. If properly planned you can turn some o...
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I tend to live more on the organic, small and elegant side of the design divide, but there is something to be said for grabbing visitors by the lapel and using big bold colors to focus attention and generate conversions.
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The third part of the series 'Graphic Design from Around the World' will feature graphic design from 'developing countries'.
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I like to look at exampls of graphic design from different perspective of my own to tear down preconceptions and see new ways in. There are several examples of great graphic design in this batch.
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Branding and social media — they seem to go together so well, yet they're both widely misunderstood. While social media can serve as a gigantic megaphone for your brand, social ...
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Worth taking another look at this excellent branding infographic.
Jack Tang's comment,
March 15, 2013 1:14 AM
Media and branding is always been mention together. The fastest to get your brand well known by everyone is though media channels like TV ads and internet. According to research, that TV ads advertisement has the biggest revenue in the industry
An, SungBin's comment,
March 15, 2013 1:33 AM
because of these days internet immprovement, most of companies advertise there brand and products through internet like facebook and twitter. in article there are more facebook users than a twitter user in US. however, more people in twitter are saying only positive reactions to certain brand.
Kevin Chai's comment,
March 15, 2013 3:17 AM
The article seems to be focused on a comparison between the effectiveness of marketing on Facebook or Twitter, with very little information regarding other sources of social media. Facebook is a decidedly more effective marketing tool than Twitter is, with their brand much more likely to spread there than on Twitter. However, Facebook is also a little bit more objective, due to how lenient females are on Twitter. While it does give a little bit of detail regarding how effective the two social media platforms are, much of these statements are something that we already knew and so this article does not contribute much to the understanding of branding.
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Web 3.0 will enable an unprecedented level of intelligence in almost all systems and applications.
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Interesting take on Facebook's graphic search an example of the new, more flexible and intuitive Web 3.0 design.
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Game websites are gaining a lot of popularity as of late and better the website, better is the fan following. Moreover, game websites are also one of the most profitable ones around.
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Need to design a great User Interface for LOTS of data? Take a look at gaming website design. These 45 Insanely Great Gaming Websites pack a lot of infomration into every page. Hard for me to judge the efficiency or acceptance of these messages since I am not a gamer, but I suspect people who play these games feel right at home on these websites and we can "StealThis on how to organize and flow data, instruction and call to actions from any number of these designs.
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If you ask some, they'll tell you Web 2.0 as we know it is probably on its way out the door.
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Web 3.0 Sure TO ROCK
* Understanding of predictive analytics will help. * Creative right brain skills + left-brain analytics. * Presentation and program layer are connected twins.
It may be hard to have visual creators become more analytical and vice versa, but that is the journey Web 3.0 is on. Until the next generation, the generation who will only know this kind of hybrid web mashup, arrives teams will need to round out the skills needed to win with Web 3.0 designs. see Also
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Every month HOW scours the web to find the best design websites. Then we compile the top promo sites, design tools, resources and sites for creative time-outs.
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Designers look at website design differently. Love this list of power website designs from How Magazine (one of my favorite design resources because even non-designers can understand it :). How's list focuses on designer "self promotion" websites, but plenty of :#StealThis in these designs too.
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Creating visualizations of huge data sets is big business. Companies like Palantir have been turning big-data visualization into huge profits for quite some time.
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A Different Design Conversation * As the data gets bigger the visualizations must get better. * There is NO data that can't be improved by visual presentation. * Visualizations require NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE to understand. * We will mashup, change and alter your visualizations. * You WANT us to mashup, change and alter your creations. * There is nothing already so simple it can't be made more so.
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The web industry nowadays is very productive. During these years there have been many trends followed and every day the designers experiment new techniques creating new tendencies in the art of making website.
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I've created more than 100 website designs (easily). I'm creating one now for Cure Cancer Starter and the hardest thing (by far) is to create simple clean lines where visitors know where to go without stress.
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TIME's annual tribute to the best in blogging covers everything from the economics of gadgets to the Civil War to Kate Middleton's fashions
What makes a blog great? At least PART of what makes a blog great is dows it create the community the author wants. This is why I like this list of 25 Great Blogs from TIME. Time asked the right question - what blogs did their job the best. Well done.
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CoolHomepages best websites design gallery of homepages, website designs and templates features thousands of the best website design examples and cool pages for inspiration - browse, search, learn, get inspired.
Some real gems in here. This is a multi-author submission site so you see designs different people think are cool. This page is their "vote it up" page and has several homepage designs you can steal idea from.
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After showing you a list of Yellow Web Designs and one of Blue Web Designs, today is time to show you a list of green websites!
Green is soothing and reassuring online especially the way these talented web designers use it to create 50 amazing green websites.
Design thinking and IDEO rocks.