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I recently completed a website design for several non-profit organizations and there was a recurring theme: lack of focus. The clients were clear on what the purpose of their organizations and were dedicated to their cause. However, they hadn’t put much thought into how to translate their organization’s mission into an effective website that moved beyond that of an online brochure.
There is misconception that there is a direct correlation between functionality and cost. The result is that many clients start with simple design models in anticipation that requesting more will bust the budget. The truth is that you do not have to compromise functionality and design for cost purposes if you have a clear understanding of an effective non-profit website should function.v
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Several websites have tried to push the boundaries of what a site can be by becoming more magazine-like. But they’re still hobbled by the clunkiness of the screen/keyboard/mouse combo. Here’s five type of website designs that were somewhat ahead of their time–and that have really been screaming for the iPad all along:
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There’s one clear conclusion falling out of the ridiculous Amazon versus Macmillan books debacle that played out this weekend: Amazon really doesn’t care about you, in fact it kinda hates you–pretty much whoever you are.
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Would you believe it costs $1 million for every solider we send?
War is incredibly expensive–but when you hear figures ranging from $1 to 3 trillion, it’s easy for the eyes to glaze over. What helps put it in perspective is how much it costs to deploy every single solider. For example, when you average the $65 billion cost to deploy 68,000 troops to Afghanistan in 2010, that comes to about $1 million a soldier.
What exactly is costing all that money? Newsweek created this graphic as an answer:
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In the spring of 1943 Donald Dohner, chair of the industrial design department at Pratt Institute, proposed to Charlie Whitney of Whitney Publications that he add an industrial design section in his magazine Interiors. Dohner asked his student, Budd Steinhilber to design the first cover of Interiors premiering the new Industrial Design section. Budd used a photograph of his brother Norman playing the role of a designer with T-square and triangle. Almost every issue after that Dohner contributed a section on industrial design and the illustrations were invariable either by my dad or Budd, since, according to Dohner, “they were by far the best renderers in the class–they could make a drawing that just sang.”
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Microsoft’s in-house dev team revealed an experimental tool called Pivot, a whole new dynamic way of interacting with data on the Web and on your PC. Will it change everything? Maybe not, but it is a sign of the way things will go.
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Old hemorrhoid tools, trepanation devices and bone saws. Your comfy, reclining dentist’s chair doesn’t look so bad anymore.
