View in High-Res Source: MashableAbout time: Facebook now allows fan page owners to schedule their posts and give team member roles to users — and as a result, taking away some of the usefulness of dedicated apps like HootSuite. Took ‘em long enough.
Omnigraffle is a girl’s best friend. #ux (Taken with Instagram at Dachis Group Portland)
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View in High-Res Source: viljamis.comWorkflow in short: Starts from the content out and encourages to spend time to really think it through. After the first content drafts are done I convert them to HTML prototypes, open them up in a mobile browser, and look how the order of the content works there. I do sketching and visual design mostly before and after prototyping. After first sketches I usually go pretty fast back to the HTML prototype and start adding some CSS to see how my ideas actually work. The whole process happens in iterations which usually go somewhat like this: sketch → prototype → design → test → discuss until it works. The order might not be this linear in reality, but I wanted to simplify my diagram for this article.
iA is back with a redesign and a really wonderful piece on the state of web typography.
Introducing Facebook Camera.
An app that lets you post photos to your Facebook Timeline.
And add photo filters.
And…….?
This makes the $1 billion for Instagram seem even more unbelievable.
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Facebook appears to be testing a way for pages to customize their presence for different regions while maintaining a unified total Like count across all pages.
It seems users who visit a page will be automatically directed to the version specific to their region, but they can access any regional or global page through a drop-down menu. Many pages have amassed large global fan bases, but any given post reaches a small subset of those people. Sharing region-specific content with the right audience can have a big impact on reach and engagement. This latest test allows each page to display the same total fan count, which could encourage brands and organizations to expand their regional efforts without worrying about the perception of having pages with a low number of Likes.
Finally, geez.
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A survey of 11 recent Portland tech startups, ranging from companies with four employees to 80, reveals that their total workforces were typically 70 percent to 80 percent male, while their development and engineering teams—i.e., the people who write the actual code—have even fewer women. In many cases, none.
So glad to have found this piece from the Willamette Week! Super solid reporting on the state of gender diversity in the startup boom here in Portland.
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“Is venture capital a sexist industry?” -David Kirkpatrick, moderating the all-male investing panel at TechCrunch Disrupt
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View in High-Res Source: betabetabeatbeatSource: reutersDuring an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama said he believed same-sex marriage should be legal.
