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The mobile audience is now twice as big as desktop. Does your organization’s design process reflect that mobile is now your primary platform?

A measly 12 percent of the top 500 US online retailers have mobile websites. Many who do have mobile sites are fumbling with misguided attempts to create lite versions of the “real” website.

This isn’t a matchup at all. Providing a great experience almost certainly means that you’ll build both web and native-app solutions. We’re all in this together, friends.

App developer Justin Williams shares his no-nonsense, single-price approach to app pricing: find your audience, charge the right price, and stick to it.

It was a real treat to sit down with John Maeda to talk iPhone apps, economic development, and how to build a community of digital artisans.

Or, “Why I wrote and designed an entire book in Pages.” The web has changed the way we read, and my new book is part of an experiment to create a new kind of print storytelling, with lessons for writers, designers, and publishers alike.

An uncertain economy makes it a good time for web workers to return to good-for-the-web core values.

My post office features a clever heat-map grid to announce slow and busy hours. A perfect idea for the web.

When behind-the-scenes systems replace common sense and customer expectations. A parable at the coffee stand.

My latest scheme to improve productivity and creative flow: Screw around. Waste time. Make stuff. Banter. Play.

The Paris Marathon prompts your correspondent to ponder what makes creative people tick in adversity.