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Grip2009: a two-day workshop for web project leads

October 6, 2009January 5, 2012

It’s no secret to us web designers and developers that at least half of the factors contributing or detracting from web project success resides on the client’s side of the fence. While professional designers and developers know, understand and can exploit the success factors that belong to them, most clients don’t and/or can’t. It’s for […]

Posted in Business, Events, Web, Web Standards

Use Wordle to visualize client documents

February 2, 2009January 5, 2012

When in direct contact with clients, there are many different things we can read in order to get information to help us do our job even better—which, let’s face it, is to give our clients what they want while catering to what they need, in a way which conforms to our own standards of quality. […]

Posted in Business, Psychology, Visualization, WebTagged language, Psychology, Visualization, words

The importance of the 80/20 Principle

May 30, 2007January 5, 2012

20% of what you do today will be responsible for 80% of the day’s results. 20% of a company’s clients will be yield 80% of the company’s revenue. I can imagine that almost everyone is familiar with the 80/20 Principle, also known as the Pareto Principle. Pareto was an Italian economist who discovered an economic […]

Posted in Babble, Business, Creativity, Productivity

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