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UI, UX: Who does what? A designer’s guide to the tech industry

Posted on 27 May 2015 by Kevin Harrington Posted in Management — No Comments ↓

Plus: How Apple, Facebook, Google and more tech-world heavyweights describe their design jobs. We’re recruiting roles in graphic design and UX/UI. Job descriptions are written and I’m looking forward to meeting some great candidates. Interested people should get in touch…

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Tagged with: 6Talent, Apple, design jobs, designer, digital recruitment, Facebook, Fast Code Design, Google, graphic design, job descriptions, UI, UX, UX/UI

The mighty Google has spoken

Posted on 3 April 2015 by Kevin Harrington Posted in Marketing — No Comments ↓

The world notices when Google speaks. They are set to change their search algorithms on 20 April 2015. This will see non-responsive websites disadvantaged in their search engine rankings. Quite right too. Based on this news people are leaping about…

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Tagged with: @media rule, algorithms, browser, consumers, CSS style rules, CSS3, desktop computer, fluid grid, Google, internet, mobile, mobile phone usage, navigation, optimal viewing experience, research, responsive web design, responsive websites, RWD, search engine rankings, tablets, UK, web design, websites

Mezzanine social platform

Posted on 29 January 2015 by Kevin Harrington Posted in Marketing — No Comments ↓

I was just going through some material for a pitch presentation next week and I came across a phrase, “mezzanine social platform”, that I had noted down. As I couldn’t remember what it meant I turned to Google. Guess what? No…

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Tagged with: Google, mezzanine, mezzanine social platform, pitch presentation, presentation, social platform

Why did Google invest in Uber?

Posted on 21 November 2014 by Kevin Harrington Posted in Marketing — 1 Comment ↓

Last year Google Ventures put $258M into Uber, in its largest deal ever. Since then Uber, the app driven system that gets cars to take you places, has been growing like topsy. Recently I have been using a lot of…

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Tagged with: app, Austin, data on journeys, driverless cars, driverless taxi, Google, Google Maps, Google Ventures, Leeds, London, Manchester, New York City, Uber, UK, US, Washington DC

The GAAFers

Posted on 28 February 2013 by Kevin Harrington Posted in Marketing — No Comments ↓

BRIC, MAVINS, PIIGS and GAAF Back in 2003 the acronym BRIC was used by Goldman Sachs when talking about the economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China combined. The report speculated that by 2050 these four economies would be wealthier…

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Tagged with: acronym, Amazon, Apple, Australia, Brazil, BRIC, Business Insider, China, Eurozone, Facebook, financial crisis, GAAF, GAAFers, Goldman Sachs, Google, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, major economic powers, MAVINS, Mexico, Nigeria, PIIGS, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Vietnam

ZMOT = Zero Moment of Truth

Posted on 20 September 2012 by Kevin Harrington Posted in Consumer marketing, Marketing — No Comments ↓

Last night my wife was researching information about children and broken fingers. As I had attended a round table with DigitalMR earlier that day, and had taken their reading recomendation, I recognised this as a Zero Moment of Truth (ZMOT). Like many…

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Tagged with: broken finger, DigitalMR, free eBook, Google, Marketing, marketing strategy, researching information, social media marketing, Zero Moment of Truth, ZMOT

Google driving its business

Posted on 3 January 2012 by Kevin Harrington Posted in Marketing — No Comments ↓

"A key question is whether Google is using its market power to steer users to its own web products or secondary services and discriminating against other websites with which it competes," Senators Herb Kohl and Mike Lee wrote. via BBC…

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