Web 2.0 Designer News

We all know Google and Bing, and probably use one or both of them on more or less a daily basis. Search results are generally the defining factor that makes us have a good experience, and I suspect most of us don’t give too much consideration to the usability of the services. However, with hundreds of millions of people using both of the services each and every day, even subtle changes in the usability of the two could add or shave off huge amounts of time for the two, and each small change can lead to a more enjoyable, more usable experience

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Bing vs Google: A Usability Face-Off

It is no secret that social media is an important and increasingly crucial part of small business success. However, there are times when social networking and marketing don’t seem to be working as well as they might.

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Importance of Social Media Branding

Last spring, the US Patent and Trademark Office opened up a new and unusually popular category: medical marijuana. With this legal gray area allowed in fourteen states and being considered in several others, there is definitely a market for trademarked names and images in this category. The result was a rush of marijuana dealers and other businesspeople eager to own the legal rights to the names for their products.

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Illegal Drugs: the Latest Recipients of Branding?

If there was any doubt that Facebook is the darling of the industry right now, it was eliminated at the ‘Marketing That Connects’ AdWeek session on Tuesday afternoon. Despite one tough question from the audience about customer service and a snarky comment about the so-called Facebook movie, the panelists were rather gushy.

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AdWeek 2010: Defining Value and Driving Conversations on the Facebook Frontier

Students who are working toward an associate's, bachelor's or master's degree in interior design, and want to gain experience outside the classroom, can benefit from attending annual design events.

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Interior design showcases may benefit future professionals

Ugonna Omeruo, creative director of the House of Nwocha recently announced the date in which she will unveil the fashion line's third clothing collection, entitled ZION. Established four years ago, the House of Nwocha features Asian-inspired clothing that is available to women of all ages. According to Omeruo, this fashion collection was based on a painting of an Asian Samurai, which featured several shades of pink, royal blue and black.

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House of Nwocha reveals ZION collection debut

SECCA, also known as the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, is a North Carolina art museum that is in many ways unique. Most significantly, the institution has no permanent collection, but instead borrows artwork for their exhibits and returns it when the exhibition is over.

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SECCA Opts for Logo on the Go

It’s Wednesday at AdWeek 2010 and today Microsoft showcased exciting products across three screens: the PC, the mobile and the television. The PC Deepzoom and Pivot are two exciting technologies that people can currently use to visualise and navigate their way around data. In the Deepzoom demo, Stephen Kim, General Manager at Microsoft showed us a great example of how to navigate and interact with high-resolution images on the Hard Rock Memorabilia site

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Navigating the Future of Digital Marketing at Advertising Week 2010

Traditional charities rely on donors to shore up their overhead and support their causes.

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The Power of Positive Impact: 10 Billion Impressions, 0 Media Budget – AdWeek 2010

Chris Baggott and I have a great history together and I really enjoyed his latest presentation at ExactTarget’s Connections 2010 on integrating search, social, and email to drive customer acquisition. He does a great job explaining Compendium (I’m a shareholder) and an even better job helping people understand how enabling user-generated content can drive acquisition.

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Video: People You Know, People You Don’t

I’m pretty sure that Martina is gonna love this Youtique channel done by Poke London for French Connection , where you can browse different videos using that new annotations that allows sending the user to an external content, in this case, the online shop, for every thing that you see in each video. A simple and smart idea on how to drive sales straight from an online content, there is further info here .

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Youtique for French Connection

Carolyn Everson of Microsoft Advertising It must be both a marketer’s worst nightmare and his sweetest dream to reflect on the volume of new consumer gadgets that are launched every day. Each represents yet another platform with another technological challenge to overcome, but also has the potential to tap into an audience that has remained elusive. Three particular segments of this 2-hour slot stood out; Scott McDonald’s piece on how magazines are being consumed on the iPad, the subsequent panel discussion and finally John Carey’s take on what he thinks the future will hold for 3D TVs.

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Consumer Adoption of New Technologies and What it Means for Marketers – Advertising Week

I’m the emergency point of contact for more than a few of my family members: my work means that I don’t have to ask for leave and, at least in theory, I can drag my laptop along to emergency rooms and elsewhere with little concern. The situation makes sense to me and I don’t have nearly the qualms about it that I have when friends and relatives ask me to drop everything and wait for their cable man

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Freelancing & Caring for Family

Social media and social networking sites present tremendous opportunities to all kinds of business, including web design. If you’re not currently active with social media you are missing out on one of the best methods for networking and for free or low-cost marketing. Many designers who are using social media are not getting the most out of it.

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5 Steps to a Stronger Social Media Presence

The Inchbald School of Design recently announced that it will offer two online graduate degree programs that are validated by the University of Wales.

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School receives accreditation for design degree programs

Students who seek a successful career in fashion photography can benefit from having their work featured in galleries. By taking advantage of these opportunities, future degree holders can have the chance to network with industry professionals and have their work available in public viewings. For instance, enrollees at the London College of Fashion will have their photography projects on display at thetheprintspace in East London

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Public galleries may lead fashion photography students to lucrative careers

How did you become a web designer? Fill out this form (be sure to include a photo) to be featured on the home page of About.com Web Design/HTML: Share Your Experience

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Wordless Wednesday – Working Designer Profiles – CJF Designs

Are you getting this error message on your blog dashboard, or while you are trying to access your blog? Read on to find out what this problem is all about and how to help blogger to solve it

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In our previous article State of The Art Professional Animators’ Site Graphics we presented 40 examples of the best animators’ site. In this post, however, we are going to search for an insight into this industry and we’ll analyze the newest trends in this field in terms of not only the web-design, but also the media strategy applied for most of these sites. We have all been to (or at least heard of) animated short film festivals.

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40 Must See Cool Short Animation Websites

Photo credit: karola@flickr Can you work effectively on an iPad? I’m about to find out. I recently joined the ranks of the Apple fanbois.  Well, maybe not completely.  I got my iPhone before it was available here in Canada (the Apple genius kept telling me “It won’t work in Canada”), but I haven’t been able to fully switch from PC to Mac

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SwitchTip: 6 Apps for Freelancing on an iPad