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Five Critical User Interface Design Mistakes

December 17th, 2009

Anyone involved in creating good, effective user interface experiences—whether on the web, in software applications, or on a variety of other devices—must keep the needs of the user at the forefront at all times. Ultimately, it’s the end user that will determine whether your site, software, or product is worth their time—or their money.
With that [...]

5 Common SEO Web Design Mistakes

November 16th, 2009

There are some fairly simple design and coding errors that adversely affect search engine optimaztion that we still see fairly often.

How Microsoft Could Cut Your Email Marketing Costs

June 24th, 2009

If you do any email marketing, Microsoft is in a position to save you money or cost you money.
Most people think of email design and development as simpler than design and development for the web. In some ways it is; after all, an email is just one “page.” On the other hand, designers and developers [...]

Interface Design: Details Make a Difference

May 7th, 2009

Martino Flynn’s Digital Media Services team manages a lot of projects at once. To stay on top of things and keep each other in the loop, we use a shared Google spreadsheet—a great tool that Google created and lets the world use for free. In general, it’s an excellent tool, but there’s a detail [...]

Thanks for Industry-Wide Inefficiency, Microsoft IE8

March 20th, 2009

We do a lot of web production at Martino Flynn. Microsoft’s browsers, while easily the most popular, are the worst-functioning in terms of properly rendering code that’s written to agreed-upon standards (standards created by an organization that Microsoft is a member of, but standards that Microsoft commonly ignores because they’re a giant). I often tell [...]