Twitter’s slowing growth

Twitter’s growth rate is dropping significantly as of late, dropping to just 3.4% in December (Graph via Hubspot). Now keep in mind that a declining growth does mean Twitter is still growing (albeit barely) and not declining. And it’s December, maybe that also has an effect on the number of people out to register for Twitter. But that said...

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BlackBerry ad in an iPhone app?

I’m 97% certain that no one with an iPhone wishes they had a BlackBerry.

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Behind the Papyrus curtain

A year or so ago Nick and I started a blog cataloging sightings of the infamous Papyrus font, aptly named Papyrus Watch. (You’ve probably seen the font, check our handy field guide for reference). “It’s Halifax’s favourite font”, we thought. Little did we know the problem was widespread. We’ve caught it used by several major brands, including most recently,...

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Passive-aggressive tweets and thinking out loud

Thinking about Twitter and it’s growth, you’ve got all these people talking to each other and thinking out loud. They might be talking about you. Or what you sell or stuff you care about or your competitors. Why you wouldn’t want to hear that (regardless if you listen), I don’t know.

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hi there Redesigns the Blog

Another major renovation was the blog, especially how we treat the comments. Our plan was to try and switch things up and try and make things feel more relaxed and social, closer to the post itself. We made the text fields fit more organically into the design of the post. Same width, for comfort. Attractive design. Leaving a post,...

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hi there Redesigns and Removes

If you remember our first website (screenshot) there’s a pretty big difference. We really took a different direction on the messaging on the homepage, too. Our goal was to make everything more attractive, concise, and cleaner. We wanted to keep the creative, and drop some of the serious to be more direct and let the site tell the rest...

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…and a Happy New Website

Last year was a great one – we spent our first six months officially in business, worked with some great clients and colleagues, and I think we all had fun. For the past couple of month’s we’ve been working out what we’ll do in oh-ten. Step one is a re-align and re-design our website. We sifted through every detail...

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