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September 2011
The Language of Interfaces
August 2011
The Customer Experience
Swiss Army Knives
Always Read The Manual
On News and Advertising
What happens with feedback
July 2011
The Orange Juice Test
Say the right thing at the right time
Have you tried talking to them?
Building a simple IP geolocation service
Keeping the faith
Product launch: Intercom
June 2011
The "Tablet" Market
Growing your "reputation" can hurt your reputation
Questions for start-ups
Warren Buffett on projections
Playing their game
May 2011
Where to draw the line?
April 2011
Talk: Data Visualisations
Faster Horses
March 2011
Great rules for choosing a name
Exceptional engineer required
Wireframing for web apps
The future of analytics products
Designing your sign up page
January 2011
Infographics and Data Visualisations
Evolution of a dashboard design
Recall versus Recognition for Search
Getting your users on-board
December 2010
Talk: New Web Technologies
The formula for success: Ignite talk
November 2010
Canvas Auto Beanie
The formula for success
October 2010
An Exceptional update
September 2010
Speeding up with Modernizr
On Communities and Content
August 2010
Long live real business
Wipe the slate clean
July 2010
Three to tango
May 2010
Your app has launched, now what?
April 2010
The Need for Speed
On decisiveness
Welcome Ciaran, thanks Darragh!
Our music lives on
Ten times better
How to compete
March 2010
So basically Qwitter was acquired
Come back tomorrow
We're hiring a senior developer
iPhone apps are underpriced
February 2010
You are what you charge
Pricing on Purpose
Do or dance
The state of HTML 5 audio support
The thickness of napkins
No reply is better than no-reply
January 2010
Good or lucky?
December 2009
On 99designs
November 2009
You're just getting started
Compelling event
A year in Contrast
Killer social media marketing tip
Welcome to Contrast: Walter
The magic of thinking big
October 2009
A cloud of robots
Let God in
September 2009
Tacit knowledge and ninjas
Try to shut up
Blooming hell
"Wait for me" said Spidermonkey
August 2009
Refactoring in Real Life
"We need it yesterday"
Asking for feedback
Welcome to Contrast: Darragh
Twitter Spam or Online Marketing
Growth for the sake of growth
The brand who cried sale
Appreciate the past
July 2009
Evolving ideas
App launch: Grab My Table
Stay special
300+ tips from Machiavelli on advice
There are no small changes
Representing your brand monster
Design decisions for iPhone
What not to do
Wrong division
All a company's activities
Gmail finds a new Uncanny Valley
June 2009
Tasty little cupcakes
Every pixel counts
May 2009
Patience and hard work
April 2009
Welcome to Contrast
Passenger: Command line done right
Design Debates 2009
Broken metaphors
When low-tech is the right tech
Handwritten Fonts
March 2009
Online marketing 2009
Contrast presentations
What I learned in Contrast
February 2009
Thinking in patterns
Your brand is out there
App launch: Twecipe
Clutter and Overload
January 2009
Celebrate your victories
Gently exceeding expectations
No identity left behind
Killing distractions
Fail early, fail often, and learn
December 2008
The power of the screencast
The client experience
It's not how good you are
November 2008
Five hidden TaskFive features
The problem with striptease
October 2008
The value of ideas
App School launch: TaskFive
App School: 5 things a day
App school: The chosen one
App Launch: Qwitter
Waiting for Freddie
The benefits of constraints
An Exceptional launch
App School 2008
Uncomfortable newspaper brands
Pink for October
September 2008
One page websites
The path of increasing fidelity
Monitoring Twitter via Campfire
Make it meaningful
Flicking the switch
Long projects go cold
Clean breaks don't happen
Fresh Fish Sold Here
August 2008
Cymbolism: Words and colours
Team Contrast
April 2008
Bank of Ireland say no to Macs
Really great web design
Real world grids
The cost of change
Five reasons to drop NDAs
The importance of visual hierarchies
March 2008
Live type
Unordered dropdown lists...
Public service or self service?
February 2008
SEO is still bullshit
Design for developers with Blueprint
My heroes in the Irish web industry
Barrier to entry, literally
Contrast is Mac only
SEO is bullshit
Branding in the Irish web industry
Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby
37signals' biggest flaw
Worst government sites in Ireland
Two: Valid uses of PDFs on the web
January 2008
Microsoft Word is not a web format
Reinventing the wheel
Dear IE6, I hate you
The quest for blogging perfection
Let's go