Handmade Type Experiment by Tien-Min Liao

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Tien-Min is a New York based communication designer focused on graphic design and branding. After getting a B.A. degree in Advertising, she won The Ministry of Education Scholarship to advance her education at Pratt Institute, and will graduate in May 2013. Her work has been published in such publications as Asia-Pacific Design, IdN Extra, How Magazine, Apportfolio Asia and many more.

Tien recently finished a project called “Handmade Type.” This self-initiated typographic experiment explores the relationships between upper-case letters and lower-case letters, and also records the transformation between them.

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Tips in Creating a Great Freelance Brand Experience

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A freelance brand experience is not just what you think it is. There is more beyond creating a logo or designing a blog. It is about how your client will feel when they do business with you. It also includes how your followers and fellow designers feel when they interact with you. Remember the saying “no man is an island”? That means that you will not be able to succeed in your business alone. You would need other people in order to reach your goals. Giving them a good freelance brand experience is one way of doing it.

Freelance brand experience is like buying a yummy burger from a burger stand. You know that they are selling a delicious burger that is why you want one. But is the personnel in the burger stand friendly and accommodating? Or did he grumpily prepared your burger and just tossed it towards you? The burger can be your designs. Your clients are aware that you are good at designing but the way you treat them is also important. Having great design outputs and being able to give a good brand experience give you five stars as a freelance designer. So, if you think this is one lacking thing you need to learn, look into our tips below.

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12 Lessons Learned from 12 Years of Writing

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Writing is hard.

Writing something worth sharing is even harder.

Writing something worth keeping — hardest.

That’s twelve years of professional writing experience summed up in fifteen words.

Experience that starts with a stint as a junior copywriter writing product descriptions … that morphs into a managing editor with my own staff of writers and proofreaders at an international organization … and ends with a successful business as a freelance web content strategist.

Writing has been my professional life. And naturally, I have a lot to say about it.

Like the twelve particularly important lessons that I learned, which I hope will guide you down a path to becoming a world-class writer.

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The Future Of Customer Experience – 3 Examples Of Virtual Assistants, Biometrics And Siri-Style Services

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The future of customer service is less about the people than it is the sound of a person or the virtual image of an individual.

Humans are just so inefficient. But they can be improved, too, through interfaces that provide them more automated capabilities.

Salefsorce.com is on the edge of this trend. It continues to acquire companies that automates an agent’s tasks to become more efficient and customers to experience a less odious way of getting their issues answered. This week it acquired GoInstant, which makes it easier for anyone in a customer experience role to share a Web page. It requires no plug-in. It’s simply a URL that connects the agent and the customer .

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User Experience vs. User Interface Infographic (as Cereal)

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This is profoundly simple; a great illustration explaining the difference and use of UI and UX.

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That Windows 8 experience? Confusing. Confusing as hell

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Trying out Windows 8 on the desktop gives a strange feeling: there's a solid update to Windows 7, and then there's a strange interface which jumps context. Plus you can't join a device to a domain? Whose idea was that?

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12 Things I Have Learned After 7 Years of Freelancing

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At the age of 15 I started with this web design stuff. Here I am, almost 7 years later and I wish I knew a lot more about this field rather than learning just by my own mistakes. But you don’t have to pass through all of this, dear Padawan.

There are a few particularities in our field that unless you have a geek dad you would never think about… So if you are aware about what you need to do you can have a much simpler, more productive, and happier freelance life.

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How Profile Photos Can Affect the User Experience

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Social networks have grown into the norm in today’s sophisticated Internet. Modern web pages have become very personalized over the past decade including a number of user interface features. One such example is the user profile picture often accompanied by each username.

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6 Techniques to Improve Customer Experience

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Companies need to know that online users are the key to their success, not their customers. In his book, Users Not Customers, digital-marketing CEO Aaron Shapiro makes the case that focusing on users’ online experience with your business will increase your profitability and success in spades.

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