Google Analytics and the Resize Event | Sparkbox
Google Analytics and the Resize Event | Sparkbox.
Nice trick.
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Everything You Need to Know About Foursquares New Merchant Tools
Good to know:
The revamp has several parts:
- Updates — Share photos, specials and news to nearby customers, a la tweets or Facebook status updates
- Specials — Create and manage Foursquare specials (no change here, aside from a sleeker interface)
- Dashboard — See stats about who checked in, and how your venue traffic changes from month to month
- Tools — Manage your business’ presence on Foursquare, including adding new managers and editing your venues.
Everything You Need to Know About Foursquares New Merchant Tools.
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Facebook Studio
This is a great site. Basically a gallery of campaigns on Facebook and you can vote on your favs n’at.
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Whiteboard Framework for WordPress
Whiteboard Framework for WordPress.
Another responsive WP framework for your viewing delight.
Powerful, clean, and well-noted code for efficient WordPress theme development
Whiteboard Framework has been helping WordPress developers cut back on their development time and improve their WordPress powered websites since 2008.
Whiteboard framework for WordPress was developed to speed up the development of WordPress themes. Whiteboard does so by eliminating the time spent on code common to all WordPress themes and includes non-intrusive code that improves the overall WordPress theme in many ways – including SEO, speed, usability, mobile support, and multi-lingual support.
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Does the fold matter? | Boagworld
Does the fold matter? | Boagworld.
A great way to explain the mythical fold to clients and the proper strategy on who to deal with the content of a web site.
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Responsive Design’s Dirty Little Secret | Palantir.net
Food for thought:
The truth is that fluid grids are broken. Well… perhaps just cracked a bit. Responsive Web design, as Ethan Marcotte defines it, is simply a fluid grid, fluid images and media queries. But fluid grids have a dirty little secret: rounding errors. As we lay out our columns in percentages, browsers have to translate that into actual device pixels to fit in the viewport. And Chrome, Safari, other WebKit browsers, Opera, and the usual suspects (IE 6 and 7) all produce “errors”.
While as a designer and not a developer I don’t quite understand what the big issue is here (and neither does @rwd aka Ethan Marcotte) it’s still a good thing to think about. Responsive Design isn’t perfect yet, and it seems yet again we’re going to have to wait for the browsers to catch up.
Responsive Design’s Dirty Little Secret | Palantir.net.
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3D Flipping Circle with CSS3 and jQuery
3D Flipping Circle with CSS3 and jQuery.
THis is pretty awesome… and all CSS and jQuery…
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iOS GUI Kits | The Stock Well – Helping Creativity
A lot of work that “web designers” do these days is not actually for the web, but rather for mobile devices, and a good portion of this work is for Apple ios devices.
Originally ios had one look for most components of the iOS operating system, but those days are gone and at this stage many of the elements of the OS can be almost as original as you want them to be. But that does not mean you have to do a lot of original work, because folks on sites like Behance, Dribbble, and others are busy creating a-m-a-z-ing os GUI kits to share with all.
Please don’t misunderstand I am not advocating copying, but if you can cut some production time by having a better starting point and then changing elements from there, then life is good.
Here now, so great IOS GUI kits:
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3 years of Brooklyn Bowl [Infographic]
3 years of Brooklyn Bowl [Infographic].
This is what i’m talking about when you hear me say “Interactive Infographic” … especially when you click on the banner in the top left corner.
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Finally! PR industry develops social media measurement standards
With hundreds of service providers who offer secret sauces and black-box solutions, how can a PR pro know if his results approximate reality? How does he compare reports from one vendor to the next?
There is good news. Thanks to a cross-industry collaboration of PR trade bodies—social media analytics, advertising and word-of-mouth associations, and a handful of blue-chip client companies—the industry is definitely making progress.
via Finally! PR industry develops social media measurement standards | Articles | Main.
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How to Find Out When Your Facebook ‘Likes’ Go on Sale
How to Find Out When Your Facebook ‘Likes’ Go on Sale.
Finally a real reason to “like” a product and a reason for brands to add the “like” funtionality to every product they sell.
Some 5.6 million products have been “Liked” across the web, according TheFind. On Tuesday, the search-based shopping site introduced a system that automatically notifies users when items they Like go on sale.
To start receiving notification emails, simply install the TheFind’s Glimpse app on Facebook. You’ll receive an alert when an item first goes on sale and when it is further discounted.
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Things change for an Internet company when the majority of their usage and traffic shifts from desktop to mobile devices. New processes, priorities, and product thinking are required to adapt. But don’t wait too long to change as the shift from desktop to mobile can happen faster then you think… via LukeW | Data Monday: How Long To a Mobile Majority?.
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Do I really need an app for that? [video] | Econsultancy
Do I really need an app for that? | Econsultancy.
2012 saw the 30 billionth download from the Apple App Store and there are now over 650,000 different apps available to consumers. Apple’s assertion that “There is an app for that” does indeed appear to be correct.
2012 has been labeled the year of the app, but as you consider your mobile strategy it is legitimate to ask: “Do I need an app for that?”
This video is adapted from a talk I gave at this years IWMW and explores the context in which an app is the right solution. It also highlights the situations in which other mobile web solutions are the right approach for your organisation and your users.
Voted the best talk at this year’s conference, this presentation is a must watch for anybody deciding on their mobile strategy.
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http://www.marco.org/2012/07/05/web-designers-need-retina
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5 Tips for Effective UX Leadership | UX Magazine
5 Tips for Effective UX Leadership | UX Magazine.
#4 says teach and learn.. so…
Somewhere in the world, a desperate user cries out for a UX hero. In the city, a lost tourist is looking for his hotel using a poorly designed app. In a nearby apartment, another man abandons his cart before making his first online purchase. Down the hall, his daughter struggles to complete a research paper using disorganized and unusable websites. An epidemic of unproductive web experiences is sweeping the city leaving a trail of disappointment and desperation in its wake. The world needs a hero. It’s time for each of us to rise up and say, “I am that hero!”
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Signing in with a picture password – Building Windows 8 – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
At its core, your picture password is comprised of two complimentary parts. There is a picture from your picture collection and a set of gestures that you draw upon it. Instead of having you pick from a canned set of Microsoft images, you provide the picture, because it increases both the security and the memorability of the password. You get to decide the content of the picture and the portions that are important to you. Plus, you get to see a picture that is important to you just like many people do on their phone lock screen.
via Signing in with a picture password – Building Windows 8 – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
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ClickTale Mobile™
They are claiming to be able to record your users’ “every tap, pinch, swipe and tilt” on mobile Web browsers.
This is hardcore if it works and would LOVE to see the analytics it puts out.
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Free High Quality UI Freebies From Dribbble | DesignWoop
Free High Quality UI Freebies From Dribbble | DesignWoop.
Gotta love freebies! Especially high quality freebies from the fine members of Dribbble.
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