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Girls Love Money

By aprilholle | flash, general observation, new technologies, user experience

Call me a girl who loves money, but I think the security features in all the new American currency are fascinating. The different levels of complexity of design, the material the dollars are made out of, the metallic inks, the list goes on. Anyhow, I was reading The New Old Five Dollar Bill article over

Happy Hyperlinks & Link Love

By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, user experience

I came across a great article this morning that discusses how to make your links stand out while not making them a pain in the ass to use. Links are great assets that can increase the value of your content by providing supporting material for your discussion and satelliting your topic to similar sites throughout

Reminder: Facebook Developers Garage

By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, new technologies, things to do, user experience, viral marketing

This is just a happy little reminder about the Phoenix Facebook Developers Garage event! What is a Facebook Developers Garage? It’s an opportunity for developers, marketers and any one else to learn more about Facebook, Facebook applications, marketing through Facebook applications, building applications and everything in between. Highlights of the event include a presentation by

The Long Wow: Keep Your Clients Coming Back

By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, user experience

I subscribe to the Adaptive Path newsletter, and I suggest you do as well if you’re interested in user experience in the slightest. I’ve continously enjoyed the articles they write regarding users and how to keep them around. The most recent article was The Long Wow by Brandon Schauer, an experience design director for Adaptive

Bill Buxton: What Makes a Good UX Designer?

By aprilholle | project management, speaker reviews, user experience

“I don’t want a Jack of All Trades, Master of None. I want “T-Shaped People”, People who have a broad understanding of the whole field (the horizontal part of the T) but then have deep understanding and perspective in one discipline in particular ( the vertical part of the T).”