Although there is no exact formula to making a perfect landing page, there are some common rules of thumb to increase your chances of making a winning one. If you’re looking for ideas on where to start with your next landing page design, the infographic below is a great place to begin. And remember,…

We made a walkshop ! At sunset on Tuesday, undeterred by George Osborne, high winds and torrential rain, 17 of Yorkshire’s finest designers, technologists and geographers gathered to walk and talk, to see Leeds in a new light. The inspiration came from Adam Greenfield and Nurri Kim’s booklet “…

On:6 Jul 2011By: Joshua Johnson Category: CSS Length:10 min read Do you hate CSS grid frameworks but love the rapid layout benefits that they provide? Do you struggle with the math and code necessary to create your own flexible multi-column layouts on the fly? Today we’re going to walk you through…

… beschäftigt derzeit viele Menschen. Mittlerweile sind auch die Mainstreammedien voll davon, wenngleich die Alternativen dort oft dem Anspruch nicht gerecht werden, weil sie die Grundlogik des kapitalistischen Wirtschaftssystems – Warenproduktion durch Lohnarbeit und Äquivalenztausch – nicht in…

Home Digital Frank Schirrmacher Internet-Thesen des FAZ-Herausgebers - "Schirrmacher ist Zaungast" 17. Mai 2010, 20:56 Uhr Internet-Thesen des FAZ-Herausgebers : "Schirrmacher ist Zaungast" In seinem neuen Buch beklagt Frank Schirrmacher die Überforderung durch das Internet. Nun übt der Psychologe…

Why can’t we use maps to link to maps? An abstract, blocky shape is easy to recognise with the right software as AR projects have shown, but the marker (qr codes, fiducials, etc) often isn’t human-readable or bears little relationship to the content. Mapcodes would present a simplified map which, if…

The following is a series of short posts WIRED commissioned me to write as part of their “Change Accelerators” promotion for BMW. Due to some infelicities of site design, I had a lot of people ask me if the posts would be consolidated anywhere, or otherwise reposted in a way that simplified the…

Normally I just ignore navel-gazing tech-industry articles like this, but people keep sending it to me, so I guess this guy is famous or something. Michael Arrington posted this article, "Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining" which quotes extensively from my 1994…

Opinion Generation Sell Credit... Josh Cochran and Mike Perry EVER since I moved three years ago to Portland, Ore., that hotbed of all things hipster, I’ve been trying to get a handle on today’s youth culture. The style is easy enough to describe — the skinny pants, the retro hats, the wall-to-wall…

This is a summary of a talk last week at the Royal Geographical Society by Alex Steffen, followed by a conversation with Ellen MacArthur. It was a big crowd in a formal space reminiscent of a RSA lecture, with not much time for audience questions, but it was still worth the night-time outing and…

Analysis October 25, 2011 How People Use Tablets and What it Means for the Future of News HIGHLIGHTED FINDINGS IN AN INFOGRAPHIC OR SLIDESHOW Eighteen months after the introduction of the iPad, 11% of U.S. adults now own a tablet computer of some kind. About half (53%) get news on their tablet every…

It has been a long, long time since we last opened up the Not Fit vault and let one of its hoary denizens wing its way across the waters of your mind. The following treatise was sent to us by a member of the band Liturgy and belongs to a rich, collegiate tradition of taking a movement or piece of…

1.Selber denken. 2. Trauen Sie endlich Ihrem Gefühl, dass um Sie herum ein großes Illusionstheater stattfindet. Die Kulissen simulieren Stabilität, aber das Stück ist eine Farce: Immerfort treten dicke Männer auf und brüllen „Wachstum!“, Spekulanten spielen Länderdomino, und dauernd tänzeln…

In this interview, Oliver Reichenstein ( @iA ), CEO of iA Inc. and a speaker at TOC Frankfurt , talks about user experience — including author user experience — on digital screens and says no devices are cutting the mustard thus far. He also dishes a bit on the problems with news and says the real…

Ich möchte in diesem Text eine Vorhersage treffen, die Ihnen sehr unwahrscheinlich erscheinen mag, die aber dennoch mit großer Sicherheit eintreffen wird: Google, Facebook und andere große Internetkonzerne wandeln sich gerade von innovativen Vorreitern zu Grundversorgungsunternehmen der…

I will never forget moving to Brooklyn 15 years ago, long before it became the land of bushy-bearded hipsters. My wife and I spent our first night walking around the super-sized suburban grocery store at the end of our block like creatures from a different planet. The market contained wide aisles…

by Matt is an author, artist and programmer working with code and generative tools.

Last week, I marked a year since my departure from The New York Times by starting to talk a little bit about what I’ve been doing (see this blog post ). Today, I’m going to talk a bit about why I decided to jump into a startup, one in which we’re building a product of our own, rather than starting…

[The above graphic is an interactive 3D bar graph. If you can’t see it, it’s probably because your browser sucks can’t render WebGL content. Maybe try Chrome or Firefox ?] Ben Fry and Casey Reas , the initiators of the Processing project , announced at the Eyeo Festival that a n ew version of…

Data is an invaluable tool for web designers who are making decisions about the user experience. A/B tests, or split tests, are one of the easiest ways to measure the effect of different design, content, or functionality. A/B tests allow you to create high-performing user experience elements that…

Zeitungen und Zeitschriften werden auf Tablet PCs wie dem iPad intensiv genutzt. Dies ist eines der zentralen Ergebnisse des neuen iPad-Panels von Axel Springer Media Impact, der Vermarktungsorganisation von Axel Springer. Befragt wurden im Rahmen der Marktforschung insgesamt 705 iPad-Anwender in…

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