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		<title>Surprising confusion from Apple</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday someone in my Twitter stream pointed out a dialogue box from the iTunes Store, calling it “a rare example of confusing UI design from Apple”. Now, iTunes isn’t known for great UX, but this is mostly (IMO) due to deep structural problems, not surface UI design. So it’s surprising that this screen design (from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=infodesignnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9522878&amp;post=674&amp;subd=infodesignnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Content is where you start</title>
		<link>http://infodesignnotes.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/content-is-where-you-start/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 17:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catchword Information Design Ltd.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://infodesignnotes.wordpress.com/?p=631</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Content Is King” doesn’t mean “Content Is Everything”, it means “Content Is Where You Start”. And that is good advice, because a lot of projects don’t start with content, they start with design, or they start with technology, and put off content till the last 6 weeks of a 6 month project. (Yes, I’m looking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=infodesignnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9522878&amp;post=631&amp;subd=infodesignnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Off-topic: Where the jobs are</title>
		<link>http://infodesignnotes.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/off-topic-where-are-the-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catchword Information Design Ltd.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is off-topic for this blog, some of my readers (yes, I have some – I can prove it!) may be interested. I market myself as a business analyst and writer, with a web specialization (content strategy and development, web business analysis, UX design). Like most contractors, I keep in touch with number of recruiting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=infodesignnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9522878&amp;post=610&amp;subd=infodesignnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The iPad, Part II: Proportions</title>
		<link>http://infodesignnotes.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/the-ipad-part-ii-proportions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catchword Information Design Ltd.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proportions of the iPad screen are 768 by 1024 pixels, a 3:4 ratio, usable in both orientations. What does this mean for layout? Tuhin Kumar suggests fluid layout: [Y]ou can view [the iPad] either in landscape or in the portrait mode. But for the designer that means two completely different layouts for which to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=infodesignnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9522878&amp;post=427&amp;subd=infodesignnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The iPad, Part I: A post about Renais&#173;sance typography</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With everyone sharing their thoughts on Apple&#8217;s new iPad, I thought I&#8217;d share mine, both of them. Is Steve Jobs the new Gutenberg? (See also here and here.) No, but he is possibly the new Aldus Manutius. The iPad introduces two screen formats: portrait at 1024&#215;768 pixels and landscape at 768&#215;1024 pixels. What are the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=infodesignnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9522878&amp;post=374&amp;subd=infodesignnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>USA Today&#8217;s tax infographic</title>
		<link>http://infodesignnotes.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/usa-todays-tax-infographic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catchword Information Design Ltd.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The excellent infographics blog Visualizing Economics featured this interactive infographic from the USA Today last weekend. It&#8217;s an overview of U.S. incomes and income-tax rates since 1940. You enter an income and year; it shows you the corresponding (inflation-adjusted) income and tax burden for each year in the series, as well as what the taxes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=infodesignnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9522878&amp;post=294&amp;subd=infodesignnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UX critique: Aeroplan sign-up</title>
		<link>http://infodesignnotes.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/ux-critique-aeroplan-sign-up-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catchword Information Design Ltd.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sign-up processes are ubiquitous but unloved. As a key feature of any e-commerce site, they're worth studying. In this post (part one of a series), I look at Aeroplan's sign-up process, pro and con, and outline some ideas about sign-up.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=infodesignnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9522878&amp;post=145&amp;subd=infodesignnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I could gripe&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://infodesignnotes.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/i-could-gripe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catchword Information Design Ltd.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://infodesignnotes.wordpress.com/?p=217</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I could gripe about the usability of this site, but it&#8217;s charming in its way. It makes every possible design mistake but gives off a light, naive, fun vibe. (Warning: Loud intro music.) Hat tip to Swiss Miss minimalissimo via Twitter. Update (8 Feb 2010) New Zealand twitterer infodesignr points to this site as another [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=infodesignnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9522878&amp;post=217&amp;subd=infodesignnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why only five?</title>
		<link>http://infodesignnotes.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/why-only-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catchword Information Design Ltd.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://infodesignnotes.wordpress.com/?p=162</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Flexible Inputs Need to be Flexible, LukeWroblewski makes a good point about data entry in forms. With phone numbers, for example, the form should either tell the user what format to use or accept any reasonable entry, reformatting it if necessary. (graphic by Luke Wrobewski) This is perfect, as far as it goes. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=infodesignnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9522878&amp;post=162&amp;subd=infodesignnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A font too far</title>
		<link>http://infodesignnotes.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/a-font-too-far/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re even remotely interested in typography and graphic design, you&#8217;ve probably seen the documentatry Helvetica. If you haven&#8217;t, I recommend it highly. Helvetica, the typeface, shows up just about everywhere: in corporate logos, ads for high-end luxury goods, utilitarian signage, notices at the local laundromat. It&#8217;s one strand of mid-20th-century modernist design: the search [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=infodesignnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9522878&amp;post=95&amp;subd=infodesignnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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