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  • Case Study: TEDxDetroit

    TEDxDetroit Created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading,” the TEDx program is designed to give communities, organizations and people the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level. TEDx events are fully planned and coördinated independently, on a community-by-community basis. TEDxDetroit, now in its fourth year, is one of…

  • Case Study: Brand Camp U

    BRAND CAMP UNIVERSITY (BCU) was founded in 2008 by personal brand strategist Hajj Flemings, who saw the need to help people manage their identity on the social web in a changing globally marketplace. Brand Camp started out as a local Detroit-based conference and has attracted attendees from 16-different states. Brand Camp has become one of…

  • Use Adobe Creative Cloud? Watch out for this!

    I am a subscriber to Adobe’s wonderful Creative Cloud service. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s like a furniture rental place—except you’re renting software. For $14.95/month you can have any app they make. For $49.95, any five apps they make. You get free updates and space to store files online (which seems to be…

  • Changes are a comin’

    I’ll be making some useful design changes to this site over the next week. I’m sure you’ve noticed the new branding; it’s actually the Facebook cover photo, and I need to make a full width one that better integrates into the site. I will also be moving the blog portion to a subfolder, so I…

  • Platform Pet Peeves

    Lately I’ve noticed what seems to me to be sloppy user experience design (UXD) in many of the apps I use. If the mistakes were on small, indie apps that lack the budget for a User Experience Designer or an Information Architect, I could let these go (although why are you building apps if you…

  • How to Get on Starbucks Wifi. Every Time.

    I love free Wifi. We all do. Except when we can’t get on. Sometimes their default login page stubbornly refuses to appear. Your friends will tell you, “Oh, just type in Google.com, or any site and the page will pop up.” Except that doesn’t always work. And restarting your browser works about 80% of the…

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