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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

One company in Watertown, Massachusetts has been executing on this vision for over a decade with a winning approach for one vertical slice of the small business market: physicians. The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.) Founding Story: A Pivot. Athenahealth version 1.0

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A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks

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Learn Web Design, Coding & more! Dec 3, 2012. Not long ago designers who laid out web pages also had to plunge into myriad layers of nested tables, ferreting out that one misplaced or making the same tedious width change across many pages. Designers shopping for a framework are likely to see similarities among their options.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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When I sold the company in 2012 to HelloWorld, I spent a lot of time writing thank you notes. Using our iPhone or Android apps or visiting Handwrytten.com, it is easy to select a card from our inventory of over 80 designs, tap out your message and select a handwriting style. Victor Allis, CEO and founding partner, Quintiq ! #4)

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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User experience design and research. Case study: Icon design. Update March 2012: See also my expanded critique of Colin Wheildon’s legibility research. Legibility is concerned with the very fine details of typeface design, and in an operational context this usually means the ability to recognise individual letters or words.

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Banner Ads Suck (and How to Make Them Convert Better)

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amateur ad design. These techniques, listed below, are not a result of isolated incidents but design principles based on psychology and usability. In 2012, Mashable also found that banner ads on the top get the maximum attention, followed by left and then right. Plain looking but bold design. doesn’t meet expectations.