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
By Pem McNerney on March 13, 2010
A recent post from Website Magazine hails the new MSN.com design as simple, clean, and bright, with “a focus on the user and their evolving Web savvy.” The old MSN.com design was bogged down by a lot of blue in the background throughout the page and was littered with boxes and too many choices when […]
Posted in Design | Tagged Design, news, newspapers, redesign
How to gather information, assess it, and present it in a way readers will understand and appreciate