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Web Design Tips: Figuring out Fonts

When it comes to website design, fonts can play an important role in defining your brand — and making content easy to read. The good news is that Google has made it easy to choose from a selection of fonts

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Web Design Tips: Create a Shot List

When it comes to web design, your imagery plays a key role in how you are perceived by website visitors. That said, if you’re creating a new website, or sprucing up your existing site, it’s a good idea to be

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User Experience Tips: Make Finding Things Easy!

The other day I received a catalog from The Company Store, and what did I see on the cover? Penguins. This was kind of a big deal because my wife and I have been Penguin fans for years. So, I

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Design Talk with Cuppa SEO: Peace Coffee Packaging

Which coffee packaging do you like best? The one on the left is the former Peace Coffee packaging, while the one on the right is their new, drastically different packaging. The new, minimalist packaging harkens to a design philosophy that

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Website Conversion 101: How to Define the #1 Call-to-Action for Your Business

Anyone who has ever taken a class in marketing can tell you that a call-to-action is “a piece of content intended to induce a viewer, reader, or listener to perform a specific act.”  While this definition may be useful if

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Does Your Website Connect with Visitors on an Emotional Level?

Hopefully your website is beautifully designed, easy to navigate, has a nice aesthetic, and the content is helpful and informative. But what if the next website down on the list of search results has all those same things, too? How

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Conversion Faux Pas that Obliterate the User Experience

I tried to go shopping online the other day on a website that shall not be named (to protect their identity for the faux pas they made). When I arrived on the site, I was instantly greeted by a pop-up

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10 Principles of Good Web Design, #1: Get Found

Good web design helps get your website found. High-level search engine optimization (SEO) needs to be brewed into every nook and cranny. SEO DEFINED In a nutshell, SEO is a process that has the ability to improve the natural ranking of

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Finding Your Design Inspiration

No matter what type of design you do (web design, interior design, products, architecture, etc.) design inspiration can be an important part of the creative process. Where do you find your design inspiration? Dieter Rams (the long-time Chief Design Officer

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Essentialism 101: Creating a Better User Experience

Eliminating distraction is part of the essentialism philosophy. The less distraction we experience, the better chance we have of focusing on what’s really important. In order to eliminate distraction, we must first identify what’s essential and what’s non-essential. Then, we

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