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Design To Wake a Sleeping Giant
Big Medium helped About.com (now Dotdash) reinvent its product strategy and design process—and created some mighty good-looking and profitable sites along the way.
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How Dotdash, Formerly About.com, Is Taking over the Internet
This may be the most successful design- and business-turnaround story Big Medium has been involved with. Fast Company tells the tale of Dotdash, the network formerly known as About.com.
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Google Will No Longer Scan Gmail for Ad Targeting
…but the New York Times reminds that Google will continue reading your email for other purposes.
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About.com CEO Neil Vogel at Business Insider
The About.com brand is being put to pasture, not as a failure but as part of a remarkable turnaround story. Big Medium helped pave the way.
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The Crisis of Attention Theft
Wired calls out the ad screens that corner you when you’re trapped: in elevators, taxis, waiting rooms, or gas stations.
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There’s Nowhere to Hide on the Internet
The New Yorker describes what it’s like to use Internet Noise, “a kind of digital squid ink,” to garbage-up your search history for advertisers and other snoopers.
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The Web Looks Like Sh*t
The Outline bemoans the abusive state of web design—and offers some of Big Medium’s work as a possible antidote.
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Mobile Magic for Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly has a new responsive mobile website. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how we built it.
PEOPLE
Time Inc.'s first responsive site
We designed the responsive mobile website for People Magazine. Here’s how we did it and why.
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QR Codes Are Footnotes, Not Ads
Go figure, but pulling someone through a QR code means we have to give people information they actually want or need.
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Stripping Ads and Paying Your Way
Liberating online content from noisy ads unfortunately chips away at its funding. Readability and Instapaper are teaming up on a new revenue model to help us enjoy reading and support writing, too.