Author: Connie Finkelman
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Office Depot Mobile Site Launches
Office Depot’s in-house m-Commerce site blows away the legacy vendor-developed site with its clean, branded design, speed improvements and robust feature set. Putting the user first kept us focused on ease of use and speed. Overview: With 8.5% of 2011 internet traffic coming from mobile devices and trending upward, mobile is an important channel for online…
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Progressive Degradation
By now you’ve probably heard designers throwing around the terms “progressive enhancement” and “graceful degradation” when discussing their web designs. I’ve come to realize that most designers and even some developers are misusing these terms. They are using them as excuses for designs that never tried to be universally accessible. I’ve begun to call this…
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The Cost of Bad Design
We’ve all seen what we would call bad design on the web, and we usually base this judgement on our personal aesthetic preferences. I have a new definition of bad web design that goes beneath the surface: If your “web design” doesn’t actually work on the web you’ve failed.
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Communication Arts Interactive Annual Winner!
The branding alone was enough to make this project a winner, but the execution surely did not hurt. The use of touchpoints from social and interactive media really made this campaign work.