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9
feb 10

Snazzy jQuery Form Alert Boxes

For a recent client, I wanted to write a script that would alert a user to not leave a field blank. Using jQuery, I wrote a script that animates a small alert box into a position relative to the input box in question. If the user "focuses" on the particular input box, then "blurs" (clicks off of it, or clicks elsewhere) without inputting anything, the alert box will insert itself into the DOM directly above the particular <input> in question alert them that they left it empty.  see the article


26
jan 10

Tricking the Brain... New Age Marketing, or Marketing 101?

Morning Edition on NPR ran a story this morning about a recent study that was conducted wherein the researchers were trying to see how cognitive decision making could be influenced by outside stimulus. They had their test subjects memorize numbers on little slips of paper in Room A. Some participants had 2-digit numbers to memorize, others 7 and a mix in between.  see the article


10
nov 09

Concept for Reddit 'I Am A...' Business Card

In a recent Reddit thread, an individual had an idea of creating some sort of hard copy business card that could be handed out to people that they met in everyday life that they thought had an interesting story to tell.  see the article


7
nov 09

What Women (and Men) Want: Magazine Ad Copy by Sex

A few weeks ago, I came up with the idea for a project where I would go through a token men's magazine (like Esquire) and women's magazine (like Cosmopolitan), transcribe all the copy in their ads, and then use a PHP script to dive into that copy and cull out the most recurring words.  see the article


28
sep 09

Copy Points

I recently saw a post on reddit where the person who submitted the article had put a great deal of time and effort (very clearly, by the quality of the end product) into designing his graphic.  see the article


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