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		<title>Users Trust Pretty Websites More</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you are saying, &#8220;duh,&#8221; but judging by the number of ugly, hard-to-use websites out there, not everyone understands this principle: people trust things that look better and are easier to use. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve also read an article about how this is true with people too—beautiful people seem more trustworthy than ugly ones. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Crappy Landing Pages Kill Email Campaigns</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyblogger posted some great findings on how crappy landing pages kill email campaigns. Here&#8217;s the summary: Business-to-consumer companies are more likely to use readable URLs than business-to-business firms Nearly 50% of the landing pages studied failed to repeat the email&#8217;s call to action 6 out of 10 companies use landing pages to sell products/services; other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>De-emphasize User Interface Controls</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a short, but insightful article from Minimali.st about making your application&#8217;s user interface invisible, which is a goal for interface design on the iPad. The gist of it is that users want to focus on content, not the interface, so make interface controls as invisible as possible while emphasizing the actions those controls perform. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten UI Lessons from the Real World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Component House: Review your icons Unrelated information shouldn&#8217;t be displayed together Use the right punctuation or appropriate separators Redundancy increases complexity Identify and remove conflicting ideas Hide unnecessary precision Fix typos Sentences with the right meaning Alignment Creativity saves the day For the details and some hilarious example graphics, read the full article: Ten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Design vs. Web Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web design and web development are two entirely different things, although a person may be skilled at both. In my experience, though, web designers tend to think more like traditional artists (more free-flowing and &#8220;inspired&#8221; thoughts), and web developers tend to think more like traditional engineers (more structured and &#8220;logical&#8221; thoughts). While I think engineers [...]]]></description>
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