The Frustrations About 'Working Around' Accessibility
The point of accessibility is for users with a variety of needs to use your product. It is not simply to satisfy a federal regulation. If that’s all a…
Social Media 2012 – The Year in Review Part I – The Bad
To quote Ferris Bueller, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Now, I’m sure John Hughes…
Tepperman's, Customer-Focused eCommerce
Tepperman’s partnered with Northern Commerce to launch a responsive digital storefront designed to enhance the eCommerce experience for its family of customers.
Obama Answers Handful of 104,000 Web Questions
In an appeal to the tech-savvy public, the White House’s Web site opened itself to Internet-submitted questions for President Obama’s online town hall…
Connecting the Dots: Braille in the Digital Age
Remember when the idea of a paperless office was a thing? No one would need hard copies of anything: computers and digital technology would supplant…
The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly of Personalization
We know that personalization is the future of the digital economy. More and more items are becoming “smart” and the goal of any content creator --…
Moving House: Structure, Design, and Features
We’ve spoken a lot about moving over the past few days. In the real world, you’d prepare your family for a move; in the case of a website migration…
Passionate Neutrality -- Biz Writing at its Finest
It’s a fine line between telling a story and being a shill – and, for business writers and media-types alike, I define that line using the following…
Don’t Just Curate, Create
You can't be seen a 'thought leader' if you spend all your time serving as a window to someone else's words. On Monday, I talked about the need for…
My Internship Experience at Northern
Before I started my internship at Northern, I thought interning meant doing coffee runs, filing paperwork, and supporting full-time employees as they…