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Stock Photos vs. Real Photos: Does It Matter?

ConversionXL

In their research, they flashed images across a screen in a manner that made it impossible for participants to be fully conscious of what they were seeing. You pay, download the stock photo, jury-rig it into your design, and look at your work with a mixed sense of pride and shame. Image source ).

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016. Here’s an example using two personal computers, one from 1996 and one from 2011. I chose to use computers I owned that were designed for compactness for their time.

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Stock Photography vs. Real Photos: Can’t We Use Both?

ConversionXL

In their research, they flashed images across a screen in a manner that made it impossible for participants to be fully conscious of what they were seeing. You pay, download the stock photo, jury-rig it into your design & look at your work with a mixed sense of pride & shame. Photograph. Meet The Everywhere Girl.

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11 Digital Marketing “Crimes Against Humanity”

Occam's Razor

Gratuitous use of Flash. It is not Adobe's fault, it is your fault for using Flash for the most pathetic things mankind has known. Remember every time you use flash on your website, a cute puppy dies. Your website was created in 1996, updated slightly in 2001, and left to rot ever since.

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Transitioning To a Mobile Centric World

abovethecrowd.com

And many of them, like the DirecTV application, are simply designed better. The next obvious transition was the rise of the browser in 1996, which transformed not only the software application market but also the print and media world. Design takes on a greater role. Yet early user data disagrees. HTML5 is a head-fake.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Theyre not entirely without use or benefit, but like Lisp, Flash or Silverlight, theyre often not the best choice. Theres nothing inherently wrong with Flash or Silverlight, but most often their use should be considered only for incremental interface enhancements to a system built on an establish web framework. XML sitemap.

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Fifteen Years Later

K9 Ventures

Fifteen years ago, in 1996, while I was still a student at Carnegie Mellon University , I wrote an article (blog post in today’s parlance) about the future of computing. After a little bit of digging through old backups, I found a folder with drafts of a couple of my old articles/paper from 1996. Sunday, May 05, 1996.

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