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Category Archives: Understanding Audience

Shhh… The Designers are Working

I love watching the team work. As art/creative director I am definitely part of the process, but I don’t have my hands on the mouse or the the sketchpad. We have design summits here — stretches of time where Misono and Estella turn off email, and I don’t bug them with new or little things [...]

The Dwindling Relevance of MySpace

Since 2008, MySpace has been been making regular and large staffing cuts. In 2009, comScore reported that Facebook had twice the global traffic as MySpace.
Back in February of 2010, one of the CEOs quit, and it was seen as a really bad sign. Back in the heyday of MySpace, bands flocked to MySpace [...]

“Sign my Nook, please.” (or: Awesome Things from RWA, Orlando – Part 2)

All hail this wonderful new booksigning happenstance. Please join me in a melifluous chorus of “Niiiiccccce!” in response to this new fabulous Best Fan Behavior:
“Sign my Nook, please.”
Fans didn’t just buy books to support literacy programs, I saw a quite a few people handing over their Nooks for authors to sign. The backs are [...]

Swag people remember you by

How heavy is your bookmark? What does your business card feel like? Do they leave a positive impression? Are you sure?
As an author, when you ask a reader to select your book to spend many precious hours with, you are commanding a high price point. Your book may be only $6, or a $10 ebook, [...]

Substance With Style vs. Form Over Function

We’ve all seen this author website: You plug in the URL, excuse the loading time (usually just a second or two), and up comes a high-concept, Flash-built homepage. Maybe the author’s name is animated or the navigation dances when rolled over. Or perhaps a little less cartoonish, the homepage is high design, featuring just a [...]

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