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I’ve been watching the responses to iOS 7 with great interest. I’m most surprised (even though I shouldn’t be) by the extremely forceful and visceral negative reactions to the visual direction of the new OS. Most tweets about about it sound something like this:

First reaction: everything about iOS 7 feels… wrong.The typeface is hard to read, controls are totally inconsistent, and it’s flatly ugly.— dustin curtis (@dcurtis) June 11, 2013

First, please let’s remember to give it five...

Baruch Sachs makes some good points in Part 1 of a series called Practicing Great UX Consulting:

You are not there to educate people. You are there to advise your client and guide the creation of an amazing user experience. You are the expert; that’s why they brought you in. Collaboration and openness are key here. People need to feel invested, not put upon.

I agree that collaboration is key — the problem comes when collaboration gets confused with consensus. Consensus cultures...

Google has confirmed that they are testing a new type of search result, maybe a rich snippet, named "in-depth" articles. Peter Meyers (@petermeyers) from Moz emailed me screen shots...

Two years ago, we released ”The Periodic Table Of SEO Ranking Factors.” Now we’re back with an update. We’ve introduced some new elements, adjusted a few rankings and given the table a more encompassing name, The Periodic Table Of SEO Success Factors.



Clicking on the image above will take you to the permanent home of the table, where you can see a larger copy. You can also view a “condensed” version without the descriptions on either side of table. Both versions are available if you wish...

We’ve updated our Periodic Table Of SEO Success Factors that was created in 2011 to add several new elements, drop a few, broaden it to include “success factors” rather than just “ranking factors” and adjusted weightings of several elements on the table. For those curious about the details, here’s the rundown.

First, if you’re not familiar with the table, see our main post today, Now Updated: The Periodic Table Of SEO Success Factors. It will give you an overview as to what the table is...

In Small Ads Dushko Petrovich turns our attention away from Facebook and Google to take a philosophical journey through those small, weird, completely non-targeted block-ads that appear in magazines:

At first you think these little rectangles are amusing because they offer monogrammed sweaters and self-publishing opportunities—things that are undoubtedly funny, in a sad, Skymall sort of way. But sometimes the funny sadness goes deeper than that, like the sadness of “unique diamond fish...

I got a surprise recently on my trip through Orange County’s John Wayne Airport. When I tapped into the free wifi there, I was offered a “premium connection speed upgrade” if I took Bing’s Bing It On challenge. It turns out Bing has been doing this in several airports since March. I’m working on getting the full list of airports, in case you’re curious, but Bing told me this: Bing began rolling this out in late March and it’s currently being offered in 13 airports.  As you experienced, as an...

Yahoo announced they launched a new design for their Yahoo Search search results page.
The new design promises an improvement, by:
Improving the load time of the results
Moving the search results higher up...