"Techy Designer" Archive

Tips and tricks from our Techy Designer. Love gadgets and web DIY? Tired of reading about chocolate? This is your sweet spot.

In Defense of Pie Charts in the Real World

Absolutely! I agree with our earlier post, Ideas Without Words—or Pie Charts.  Information is beautiful in charts like Caffeine and Calories. I would use this or a similar treatment each and every time the client says: “Designer, go forth with this here unlimited budget and a whenever deadline, and just… CREATE!” Alas, the world of [...]

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Ideas Without Words—or Pie Charts

Sometimes we copywriter people need to be put in our place. INFORMATION IS BEAUTIFUL does it.

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Design Trend for 2010: Purple

Calling trends is classic chicken-egg stuff: does a tendency only become a trend when one labels it so? The line is thin and grey enough that by the time most trends are “predicted,” they’re actually simply being reported. But the stakes are low here, so let’s play pundit. Over the years, I’ve gone through a [...]

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Want to see your company’s future? Show me the wiki.

Wikipedia rules the Internet. It’s a more popular information source than CNN and Yahoo News and, with more than three million articles, its pages appear in top-ten search results well over 90% of the time (some reports put the figure as high as 97%). Not bad for a website that’s existed for a mere eight [...]

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