SEO: it's about sticky-gooey-sweet content

When your Web content is good, it not only attracts visitors, but it incites a viral sharing of the information, which results in high link conversions. If it isn’t, no SEO tricks will help you.

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Shack attack (and other brand-tinkering tomfoolery)

Radio Shack has launched an ad campaign aimed at overhauling its brand image. In its marketing, the retailer has shortened its name to “The Shack” and adopted a wacky tone (presumably à la the bizarro-world marketing antics of Burger King) that seems designed to reach a younger audience.
“If you think about how you use nicknames, [...]

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Not-so-private brands hit their stride

This week a mailer announcing Target’s newly redesigned private brand landed in our mailbox, complete with coupons for many of the products in the private label family. The new Up & Up brand, with its multicolored category system and bubbly upward-pointing arrows, is a departure from the Target bullseye logo. It also seems like a [...]

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25 is how I drive: the call for slow communication

Last weekend, I was riding with my husband and daughter on a busy four-lane commercial street on a Sunday afternoon, on our way back from shopping for a toddler bed at IKEA. Typically while I’m riding as a passenger, I space out and stare out the window and neglect to pay attention to the negotiations [...]

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Why you should always start with content

The always-brilliant site Boxes and Arrows recently posted an essay on the dangers of designing without bringing in the content writer. The piece, authored by a designer no less, included a beautiful example of what happens when a Web page template is created lovingly by the interface designer, only to have the live content come [...]

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