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The Dangers of Dark Patterns
There's no doubt that SEO and Internet Marketing has come a long way. The past few years have been chockfull of substantial shifts in the ways that we do business – causing quite a few growing pains....
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DistilledLive Catch Up: Responsive Web Design
Last Monday, our Seattle office held a meet up about responsive design. We were lucky enough to get Matt Fordham, technical director at Wintr, to explain the fundamentals behind responsive design...
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Researching Creative Ideas: 10 Dos and Don’ts
Back in March, I spoke at BrightonSEO on the not-so-SEO subject of design. Slightly taken aback by the love I got from Slideshare and Twitter for my speaker deck, I thought it time to do a quick...
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Expecting the Unexpected: Edge Cases in Web Design
In 1976, Swiss watchmakers Omega were responsible for constructing the scoreboards for the Montreal Olympics. They asked the International Olympic Committee how many digits the boards would be required...
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The Long and Short of Responsive Design
This is a guest post from Corey Eastman of design and development whizz kids, Climax Media, the enterprise web architect agency who help both large enterprises and funded startups innovate through...
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Bridging the Void Between Designers and Developers
Some say that in the world of web content, designers are from Mars, developers are from Venus and never the twain shall meet.Image credit: Science Photo Library, FlickrWhen it comes to content...
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Why Letting Go Could Kick-Start Your Creativity
To make exceptional creative work, we must defy conventions and accept the risk of failure. This was the main lesson shared at ‘Here London’ (run by publishing platform ‘It’s Nice That’) – a conference...
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Mobile SEO in 2015 - Is Your Site Up To Date?
A year and a half ago, I worked with Bridget Randolph to put together a guide to building a mobile site. It takes you through the process of creating a mobile-friendly site, from design to development...
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For the Love of Good Content
About a year ago, our head of creative Mark presented How to Produce Better Content Ideas at SearchLove Boston. The slide deck has been really popular, with over 443,000 views so far.With that in mind,...
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Story Focussed Data Visualisation
Towards the end of last year, we completed a project for blinkbox Books that charted the careers of some of the greatest authors of the last 200 years, and showed at what age they published their...
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Be Your Own Designer - The Best Free Resources for when You’re Short on Time
Has there ever been a time when you’ve realised you’re a day away from a big pitch, but you forgot to book any design time through your creative department? Or perhaps there’s that last minute blog...
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Mobile Web 1.0: Party Like It's 1999
This blog is a guest post written by Brian Massey, Founder of Conversion Sciences, a turnkey website optimization company. He is an in-demand speaker, writer and author of the Amazon Marketing...
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What Web Dev Inadvertently Taught Me about SEO
Before Distilled, I was a Digital Producer (think: front end developer meets project manager) and worked on dozens of web development projects. So when I started my role at Distilled, I didn’t expect...
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3 Ways to Improve Map Visualisations on Mobile
Designing and building data visualisations have long been a core part of the creative team’s offering at Distilled. As technology continues to develop, the way we work must also develop and adapt with...
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Demystifying the Design Process with Sketch
For non-designers, there is often a level of mysticism around the way we work. In your job, it may well be your responsibility to brief a designer, but as for what happens in between that stage and...
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Creative Inspiration: Content We Enjoyed this Autumn
The internet is bored of graphs. Let’s show them what else we’ve got. Following on from our post this summer, where we talked through a range of exciting new content, from peace tributes to social...
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Creative Inspiration: Content We Enjoyed this Winter
Long format we love you!In the age of everyone having a blog, highly stylised long format can be what it takes to make your written content stand out. At Distilled we often ask ourselves does something...
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Creative Inspiration: Content We Enjoyed this Spring
Event tie-ins galoreEvery brand should have an event calendar; you should know when anniversaries, yearly celebrations and public holidays are taking place so that you can leverage them to your...
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2018 Distilled Creative: What we've learned and changing trends
Each year we write a round-up of some of the most exciting projects we’ve worked on over the past 12 months. We’ve continued to create a wide variety of content; never restricted by format. This year’s...
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Working with freelancer sites
At Distilled we have become a dab hand at creating photo stories. Ones which take you on a journey around the world comparing different human facets that give us an interesting insight into different...
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