Official Google Blog: ‘Tis the season

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I’ve recently been talking about functionality vs. design in building websites, and this post got me thinking… Google is the “king” of functionality, but by the standards set by many design firms, they lack wholly in beautiful design. I’m sure their users aren’t complaining that they don’t have a crazy 3D flash headers & navigation [...]

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Fast Screen Shots?

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You can’t batch process it, because you haven’t grabbed the screenshots yet. Here’s the smallest number of steps you can do to grab screenshots manually. (This example uses Macromedia Fireworks) I suggest, setting the background on your desktop to flourescent green, (assuming any icons will be blocked or not seen), then make the window (whatever [...]

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Great Design / Bad Usability

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As I’ve previously written about. Usability should also be the first priority in building a website. I’ve found an example of beautiful design, but lacking completely in usability. I realize of course it’s a design site, so they’re trying to look “cutting edge”, however that is no excuse for not being able to find you’re [...]

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