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UI of Twitter's new 'Vine' app: Subtle Evolution
Recently Twitter released its new standalone short video sharing app ‘Vine’. It’s début isn’t without some controversies, but overall it’s a solid app with great potentials. All the dramas aside, I want to go ahead and do a bit of UI analysis on t...…
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Facebook's Road to Close?
Facebook’s Road to Close?Their business philosophy seems to be undergone subtle changes in Facebook headquarter. The ban on Voxer felt like last week, today they also banned Twitter’s new video sharing app Vine from accessing their ‘Fiend Friends’...…
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Internet Explorer Commercials: A Rare Breed from Microsoft
Today I came across the new Internet Explorer commercial: Child of the 90s I have to say I’m pretty impressed. Whatever advertising company came up with this, and whoever in Microsoft picked them should get a round of applause. It’s very human, in...…
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Form Follows Function: Great HTML5 Demo
Came across this gorgeous demo site for what HTML5 can do. The interaction and effect are amazing and the minimalism design helps too, highly recommend, link here.You really need to click into every one of them and see the ‘live’ effect to fully a...…
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Skeuomorphism vs. Flat Design: Some Inspirations
The design industry is rethinking Skeuomorphism lately. Whether flat design is a more appealing approach or Skeuomorphism is still in its prime time.I was reading all those arguments and think to myself: Maybe they can work hand-in-hand instead o...…
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Why Path Is Gaining Traction in China
In an interview TechCrunch had with Path’s CEO and co-founder Dave Morin, Dave mentioned that China is the top 5 area for Path on subscribers. Yet he isn’t quite sure about why. His answer is ‘One of the biggest segments of our users is family, an...…
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Win-Win Solution to Advertisement Fatigue in Information Age
Image courtesy of iStockphoto/OtmarWI’ve always been observing the tech industry for new trends, and lately I think I noticed something on the social network and search area. The challenges we are facing as a professional in this crazy information...…
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American Airline's New Logo: A step on the wrong direction?
American announced this week that they will have a brand new design of logo, livery and other paint jobs. The design itself is actually pretty good, modern and stylish. But after reading the news, my initial feeling isn’t excitement, I actually fe...…
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Google's deer hitting car in our neighborhood
Image: Taken on Jan 16, 2013.Well, not exactly the same car of cause, but fearsome all the same! If you don’t know the story yet, here is the link to it.There are always controversies with the Google Street View Cars. People love Google Maps, espe...…
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My love and lost with Instagram
Image: Sunset near the apartment I used to live.I was doing some ‘house cleaning’ of my photos today and this one came to my attention. This is my first Instagram photo. I believe it’s very early, nearly half a year after they released Instagram. ...…