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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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DDM

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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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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Instant Recall

The Verge reports that publishers are fleeing Facebook’s Instant Articles platform.
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Mobile Web: Back To the Future

At mobiForge, Ronan Cremin suggests AMP takes us back to a pre-responsive-design world. He may be right, but publishers are choosing that path for the wrong reasons.
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Time Inc.

An Online Home for the World's Biggest Publisher

We crafted a new website—and along the way, a new brand—for the world’s most iconic publisher. Here’s how we did it.
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ew.com

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.
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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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advertising

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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books

Tapworthy in China (and Japan! and Spain!)

“Touch People’s Hearts” is the translated title of the Chinese edition of my book Tapworthy (触动人心), and I couldn’t be more tickled.
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Newsstand Revisited

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s post about Newsstand, I had exchanges with a few folks whose work touches the publishing industry. A few themes kept coming back…
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Newsstand Is Promising, Yay! But Enough with Issue-Based Publishing

Newsstand is a read-all-about-it moment for publishers, as readers seem to love it so far. But we can’t let this recent success distract us from real problems with the issue-based publishing model Newsstand supports.
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