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What problem are you trying to solve?

Posted on 22/10/2012 by Nathaniel Flick — No Comments ↓

In web design, development and usability the biggest problem is not spending enough time finding out what the problem is. Albert Einstein once said: “If I had an hour to save the world I would spend 59 minutes defining the…

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StumbleUpon and Pinterest

Posted on 14/10/2012 by Nathaniel Flick — 1 Comment ↓

StumbleUpon beta has a new, Pinteresty design. I hate even mentioning that website that lets you just refashion existing content because StumbleUpon breaks me out of my normal search patterns. If you’ve never tried it StumbleUpon can show you websites…

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LinkedIn updates their iphone app again

Posted on 10/09/2012 by Nathaniel Flick — No Comments ↓

I wrote about LinkedIn’s iphone app being changed slowly, and the masses don’t seem to be complaining at all, which seems to be proving my point. Small changes win! The app now has more sensible icons for Updates, You, Messages…

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5 reasons why Newsmap.jp is still the bomb

Posted on 04/08/2012 by Nathaniel Flick — No Comments ↓

There’s more than one way to get your news There are websites and apps out there a plenty that show you news. Flipboard is a great example of news taken to its logical conclusion. But before it came Newsmap.jp and…

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A usable website makes you feel something

Posted on 13/05/2012 by Nathaniel Flick — No Comments ↓

This article I just found on SearchEngineLand.com goes into great detail about how Emotional Design and SEO can cohabitate, and it explores why websites that elicit emotion are effective but it gets lost in the woods and misses the point.…

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Choose one thing

Posted on 27/01/2012 by Nathaniel Flick — No Comments ↓

There are many distractions in web and application development and lots of discussion going on about how to manage these. But what is your application’s primary function? I keep coming back to the car example in my mind. In a…

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New New Twitter Forgets Its Reason for Being

Posted on 09/12/2011 by Nathaniel Flick — No Comments ↓

Twitter came out with the #newnewtwitter redesign today, available to limited accounts (I’m not sure what the criteria is for this). In a word? Twitter has forgotten its reason for being. Twitter is following instead of leading with this one.…

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