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Chinese App Design Patterns: Chinese UX Design Patterns

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Comparative Color Saturation in Chinese vs. Western App Interfaces

Sometimes you have one of those conversations that’s so full of new ideas, it pinballs around your head for days. I enjoyed one of...

Beijing Gadgets Blog - Xiaomi TV Review

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Gadgets of China – Xiao Mi TV

Posted from: Beijing, China This is one of several pieces I did on China tech for now-defunct website Smart Beijing. I love toys, but I...

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Winning Gold at the Midlands Addys

Sure is nice to wake up in the morning and find out your work won a snazzy first-place award in a contest you never entered, like we did...

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Chinese Standard Web Fonts: A Guide to CSS Font Family Declarations for Web Design in Simplified Chinese

Massive Google fail. Since days of searching have brought me no closer to answering my most pressing Chinese font questions, I bit the...

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Breaking News: People who can’t attach photos to email are legislating about the internet

Posted from: Beijing After several years spent with a picket sign in one hand and a brick in the other, these days my political platform...

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TaoBao Christmas Miracles: Surviving the Chinese Ecommerce User Experience Apocolypse

Posted from: Beijing I spent the better part of Christmas Eve morning sitting in an empty concession stand outside of Solana shopping...

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Swiss Retro Ecommerce Web Elements set for Smashing Magazine, or: Trials, Tribulations and the Pixel Grid

Posted from: South Carolina I was just recently asked to design an ecommerce icon set for Smashing Magazine and after a several week long...

That's what she said.

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Thanks for Sainting Me, Google Social Search

Posted from: South Carolina If you asked my friends to describe my temperament, you’d be unlikely to hear, “cleaves to the...

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SouthEast LinuxFest

So, I’m waaay late in reporting on this one, but a few of the Columbia, SC LUG guys and I spent at the first annual Southeast Linux...

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Internet Killed the Radio Star

Posted from: South Carolina One night, many moons ago, I stood in one of L.A.’s then-wierdest, now-defunct clubs waiting for the next...