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2011 Annual Report from Warby Parker

Warby Parker 2011 Annual Report

Warby Parker distribute glasses in a customer friendly fashion with free shipping and free returns1. They\’ve recently put together their annual report for 2011 and rather than distribute it2 using traditional print and PDF methods, they\’ve built a beautiful HTML/CSS/JavaScript based side scrolling report that shows all the important stats…

WordPress Tip: Update Your Permalinks

The other day I went on 4 or 5 toot rant on Twitter about issues I often come across in websites I visit. It was a bit of a letting off of steam and on Twitter, where you’re limited to 140 characters, it’s not that helpful since I just complained…

Required Listening: Doing Things the Long, Hard, Stupid Way

Frank Chimero is a designer and writer from Portland, Oregon and he recently gave a talk at the Do Lectures in Wales. His talk was titled “Do Things the Long, Hard, Stupid Way” and is a good talk to listen/watch for a bit of inspiration and motivation to think about…

Google+ Community Guidelines

While it’s still early days in how everyone is deciding to use Google+ personally and professionally – Google has just published a set of Community Guidelines that can help give you an idea of how or why you might want to use Google+ for your business or startup. Right now…

The Northerly Edition

Coudal Partners is a design and advertising studio located in Chicago. One of the products they sell is the popular Field Notes Brand memo and notebooks. So if you’re trying to market a new version of a notebook you sell, what sort of video would you create to convey the…