Small businesses can compete for talent without breaking the bank. Yes, you still need to pay competitive wages to get people in the door, but it’s the perks that will help you retain them. Here are 30 low-cost ideas for small businesses who want to show employees that they are highly valued. 1. Flex time.  [...]

At first sight the new iPad 3 seems to be a vindication of Moore’s Law. Apple wanted to significantly increase the pixel density of the screen, and had to wait until the components were cheap enough to sell the iPad for its usual price. Now, apparently, that wait has ended and the iPad 3 with [...]

As much as we love helping you figure out your email response rates, we know that your email marketing doesn’t stop there. In fact, for most messages, email is just a starting point for a customer who will then go on to purchase, donate, share, comment or RSVP. The great news is that these folks [...]

Search Engine Optimization is a very hot topic in the World Wide Web. After all, everybody wants to rank higher and come up on the first page of Google search and get more traffic. I have identified and made a list of top 15 SEO practices that I tend to forget quite often. These simple [...]

“Designers, designers, designers” has become the new “developers, developers, developers.” Witness the ever-growing list of job postings for product designers, UI designers, user research designers, UX designers. They’re posted faster than I can read them. Someone needs a “senior design champion” (versus a normal design champion?), while another is looking for a “catalyst of creativity.” [...]

The sharing economy may be growing, but up until now, peer-to-peer carsharing (where people rent out their idling vehicles by the hour to other people) has been relegated to certain forward-thinking cities. That’s no longer the case now that RelayRides, the oldest of the carsharing startups, is expanding nationwide. “There’s more momentum around carsharing in [...]

Not so long ago Apple introduced iAd as a serious attempt to shake up traditional Net advertising on its iDevices–it was deeply integrated into the iPhone and iPad OS, and offered rich media interactivity as a hook to snag yet more customer engagment. But it hasn’t necessarily solved all the problems of audience engagement, and [...]

Edmodo started out as the Facebook (or Yammer) for classrooms–a social network-style place for teachers to coordinate online with their students (and sometimes parents). Today the company becomes even more like Facebook as it opens up its API so that outside companies can build apps that sit on top of the Edmodo platform. CEO and [...]

You may be familiar with Readability, a popular web app that sucks text content out of uglified web pages and re-presents it in a calm, clean design optimized for, y’know, reading stuff. Readability’s open-source code has been adopted by Safari, Apple’s browser, as well as many other apps and services. But the service has conspicuously [...]

I recently went online to pay a credit card bill with a well-known financial institution. Upon logging in, I was presented with a promotional advertisement for the company’s iPad application. As a designer, I was naturally curious as to how the app differed from the Web experience, assuming it might just surpass my expectations. And [...]