By Pem McNerney on August 17, 2010
While planning for an upcoming website redesign project, I sought advice on LinkedIn about the best way to conduct a content audit. We were in the midst of a time-consuming, page-by-page evaluation of our site, which has more than 2,000 assets. Compared to many sites, that’s not very big. But it started to feel like […]
Posted in Content, Content Audit, Design, Editing, Uncategorized | Tagged Alice Ainsworth, Content, Content Audit, redesign
By Pem McNerney on March 31, 2010
Adobe has announced that it will announce an announcement April 12 about Creative Suite 5, according to PCMag.com’s Geoff Fox in this article. For more information on the count down (12 days, 10 hours, 57 minutes, and five seconds as of this post), you can go to this page and register for your “first look.” […]
Posted in Design, Editing, Photography | Tagged Adobe, Adobe CS5, Creative Suite 5, Geoff Fox
By Pem McNerney on March 31, 2010
From the folks at Adobe: “One of the biggest requests we get of Photoshop is to make adding, removing, moving or repairing items faster and more seamless. From retouching to completely reimagining an image, here’s an early glimpse of what could happen in the future when you press the delete key. How might you use […]
Posted in Design, Editing, Photography | Tagged Adobe, Content-Aware, Photoshop
By Pem McNerney on March 23, 2010
Last month, Middlebury launched it’s newly made over Web site. Take a look before you read further and see what you think.
Posted in Design, Drupal | Tagged Content, Design, Drupal, edu, Middlebury, Smashing Magazine, White Whale
By Pem McNerney on March 16, 2010
Julie Zhuo, the product design manager at Facebook, has had plenty of experience dealing with people who are unhappy with change. In this podcast with Jared Spool, Design Lessons from Facebook’s 350 million with Julie Zhuo, she talks about why people don’t like change and how Facebook takes that into account when they introduce new […]
Posted in Design, Facebook, Social Media | Tagged change, Design, facebook, redesign
How to gather information, assess it, and present it in a way readers will understand and appreciate