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Last minute gifts for Debutante Designers

Designers are all snooty about darn near everything, so it is difficult to find gifts that would genuinely please them. Here are some little things… Read More

Last Minute Gifts for Catatonic Coders

Walking through your office you may spy the elusive and hard to please programmer/coder/geek. This person (often male) is one of the more difficult people… Read More

The ink never dries on the web. It does however when it hits paper.

I screwed up a print project. I had a signed proof. I was so very careful too. I just couldn’t believe it. I’ve been working… Read More

Tech Lust: An XO this holiday season?

So after not-so-much deliberation, I have decided to get my six-year-old an XO and hell, I might get one for myself… Read More

Game Console Advertising Takes a Major Turn Towards Legitimacy

For years now we have seen ads and product placements in video games. And it makes sense too, gamers spend more time playing games… Read More

Design Dividend

Fast Company has an intriguing look at the bottomline benefits of companies that focus on design. (The design dividend) According to this study,… Read More

How to get concert info through iTunes

I was told about JamBase by a friend of mine as a place to find out what shows are around the area. The site… Read More

Usability Testing 101: 10 Tips for Better Results

Recently, a client asked us to put together a list of high level “dos” and “don’ts” for usability testing. It has taken us several… Read More

Wired Magazine = Boy’s “Cosmo”

Women’s magazines are so obviously facile and patronizing that many women turn to other, supposedly “better” magazines—the New Yorker, Harper’s (hell, even the Atlantic, even… Read More

eSports shifts into high gear

It has been popular knowledge for a while now that video Games are a bigger industry than movies. But perhaps we have been comparing it… Read More