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The Slow Implosion of WordPress: 2025 and the CMS That’s Losing Its Soul tech

The Slow Implosion of WordPress: 2025 and the CMS That’s Losing Its Soul

WordPress, the behemoth that once empowered a third of the internet, stands in 2025 as a paradox. On one hand, it’s still everywhere — powering blogs, newsrooms, e-commerce empires, and SaaS landing p

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Want to be a designer? Learn the secret handshake tech

Want to be a designer? Learn the secret handshake

The Secret Handshake is a fabulous project, aimed at helping young designers (18–25) find their way into the industry.You should always quantify the advice you take based on who’s giving it to you, an

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It’s Time to Talk About Testimonials tech

It’s Time to Talk About Testimonials

Word-of-mouth marketing is one of the best ways to get new business — and high-quality business at that. But unless you’re focused on a very small space where everyone knows each other, it can be hard

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What has your website done for you lately? tech

What has your website done for you lately?

How do designers use their own websites to promote themselves online? What are some good ways to set up an online presence that gets you found, puts your best foot forward and actively builds your des

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Why Algorithms Are Ruining Your Web Experience tech

Why Algorithms Are Ruining Your Web Experience

The internet was once a place for discovery. A space where curiosity could roam free, where you could stumble across something entirely new, and where every click could lead to something exciting and

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The UX Nightmare: Why Tech Is Becoming Unusable for Everyone Except Cyborgs tech

The UX Nightmare: Why Tech Is Becoming Unusable for Everyone Except Cyborgs

Remember when technology was supposed to make life easier? That dream is long gone. Instead of simplifying our lives, modern UX has become an endurance test designed to see how much frustration the av

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How CentOS Became 2020’s Final Victim tech

How CentOS Became 2020’s Final Victim

If you were paying close attention to your IT department around the 8th of December, you might have heard some quiet sobbing and the occasional wail of, “Why? Why?! WHY?!” Now, it was the year 2020, s

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Design Your Website to Sell While You Work tech

Design Your Website to Sell While You Work

Design work is very time consuming. But it’s not just the labor you put into building websites that takes time and concentration.Because the projects you work on typically have a short shelf life, you

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Are you sure you’re ready for your website to go live? tech

Are you sure you’re ready for your website to go live?

I recently witnessed a startup website train wreck. It was an extreme failure because the owner launched too soon and the consequences of doing so were fatal. As the owner, or just the designer/develo

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4 Founder-Led Brands That Are Done Right tech

4 Founder-Led Brands That Are Done Right

When you hear the word “leadership,” do you think of a particular person?If you’d been asked that question anytime before the 1900s, chances are you’d think of an accomplished politician or a battle-t

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Internet Censorship is Here: How Far Will it Go? tech

Internet Censorship is Here: How Far Will it Go?

Within hours of the recent mass shooting at a New Zealand mosque by a far-right terrorist, the country’s authorities were scrambling to ensure a sickening video the murderer streamed on Facebook was b

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How to design for non-profits tech

How to design for non-profits

I ought to know a lot about charities and non-profit organizations. My parents are career missionaries; and I grew up in an environment where everyone I knew was dedicated to improving the lives of ot

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