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Making Work Accessible, Wherever it Happens
Lydia X. Z. Brown is a lot of things — writer, advocate, organizer, strategist, educator, speaker, and attorney. Why do they spread their time and expertise across so many arenas? Because Lydia chooses to dedicate every aspect of their life to promoting social justice for some of the world’s most marginalized people.
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The Beauty Trap in Design
My primary responsibility as a UX designer and creative director is to get inside the mind of the client and their customer. To think like they do, anticipating stumbling blocks they may encounter even if a trained professional web designer would sail briskly through.
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Freedom With New TLDs
Now, users have choices to select from a number of multiple domain extensions according to their niche areas and availability.
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Using Inclusive Language to Make Your Website More Accessible
Using inclusive language in your content is a surefire way to make your site is accessible to a larger audience.
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Inside Toptal’s Distributed Screening Process
In tech hubs like San Francisco and New York, the demand for top-tier talent can outstrip supply, so HR departments find themselves in a fierce competition for local job applicants. In response, some companies have turned to the distributed model, which allows them to reach beyond hub cities and to access qualified candidates around the…
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Vox Tackles the Pros and Cons of Remote Work
Citing a few recent studies that discovered remote work increases productivity and employee satisfaction, Vox looks at the causes and effects of distributed work arrangements. Most interestingly, they explore the broader trends driving the popularity of remote work, such as millennials moving out of tech hub cities like San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles….
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Creating a Social Media Calendar: Four Factors to Consider
Creating a social media calendar is a great way to organize content, communicate timely events, and align social posts with other business initiatives.
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How to Avoid Statistical Bootstrapping Pitfalls
Yanir Seroussi shares some insight into the common pitfalls of statistical bootstrapping and how to avoid them.
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Pickers & Clickers
Alternate title: Pick-a-little, Talk-a-little Over the last 18 months or so, I’ve logged 200+ hours of moderating, watching, and reading user research sessions. Entrepreneurs with dreams of success, bloggers who love murder mysteries, and everyone in-between. When thinking about lessons to draw from these sessions, I returned to a note I scribbled while watching someone…
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Stephen Wolfram on 28 Years of Remote Work
Stephen Wolfram started out on an academic career path, but eventually realized that founding a company would allow him to pursue his scientific work more efficiently. He’s served as a remote CEO of Wolfram Research for the last 28 years. In this episode, Stephen shares with host Matt Mullenweg — another remote CEO — his perspective on the value of geo-distribution, and the processes his partially-distributed company uses to make world-changing software. For more, go to Distributed.blog. Produced by Mark Armstrong and the team at Charts & Leisure: Jason Oberholtzer, Whitney Donaldson, Cole Stryker, Levi Sharpe, and Michael Simonelli. Theme music by Jason Oberholtzer. Cover art by Matt Avery.
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How to Style Buttons with CSS in WordPress.com
WordPress.com Premium and Business users can achieve better marketing results by learning how to style buttons with CSS.
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Listen to Matt Mullenweg Discuss the Stewardship of the Web on The Rework Podcast
Our host finds himself on the other side of the mic on the latest episode of The Rework Podcast. Basecamp co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson invited Matt for a friendly debate about tech monopolies, power in open-source communities, and how Matt views his role as the CEO of a successful company that contributes to the WordPress…
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Designing in the open
Throughout my career, most of my design work has been produced in relatively controlled environments: It was covered under strict NDAs, or it was presented to a very select group of colleagues, clients, or other stakeholders. Design was done in closed boxes, where all work was hidden away until launch. I got pretty used to…
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Jetpack 7.8: Making Jetpack a Stronger Team
Jetpack 7.8 has a number of under the hood improvements and bug fixes to make Jetpack’s great array of features better for you and your websites.
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Tips for Creating a Small-Business Press Kit
Need to quickly and easily share information about your brand story and products or services? Here's how to create a small-business press kit.
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