Tag Archives: Digital Thinking

Data Overload – Economist

The Economist this week is very choice. If you have the means, I suggest you pick it up. There’s a whole special report on data, why they’re interesting, and how much we’re creating. (I remade these two charts to make them prettier for the internets. Feel free to steal/share.)

Fascinating:

Wal-Mart processes 1M transactions every hour, feeding databases […]

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Thinking about banner ads and birth control

I made this after posting this on Twitter.
Early yesterday morning, on my weekly train ride up to Milwaukee, I was thinking about the state of online advertising, missed forecasts at Yahoo!, and what could be done about it.
In particular, the “industry average” click-through-rate on standard display advertising gets me pretty fired up. Combine that with banner blindness […]

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How to Wireframe

How to Wireframe from Clay Parker Jones on Vimeo.
I kinda love wireframing* things. Mostly because I longed to be an architect while I was younger, and like George Costanza, never became one. This video quickly runs through my process for wireframing the new obamabaton.com site in Microsoft Visio. You’ll hear a LOT more about this project […]

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SEO versus Coolness Factor

So, we all want our sites to be engaging and search-engine friendly, right? Well, maybe not all of us but I bet we can agree those things are all good in the minds of clients. One of the surefire ways of making stuff look cooler on the web is to make it move. People seem […]

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