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Online Grocery Shopping: A Hard Nut to Crack — Tyler Tate
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December 09, 2014. Online Grocery Shopping: A Hard Nut to Crack. Packaged food aisles at a Fred Meyer hypermarket in Portland, Oregon. In my previous post, From Famine to Feast: Food’s Online Future. I outlined three reasons that I believe the food industry is poised for a profound transformation as consumers shift from brick-and-mortar to online channels. This, however, begs the question:. Why hasn’t online food shopping already taken off in the United States? Three reasons for failure. Not only must th...
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The Case for a Coffee Marketplace — Tyler Tate
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January 16, 2015. The Case for a Coffee Marketplace. That was 2006. It was the summer before my last year of university, and I was spending four weeks working with an upstart coffee roaster in Costa Rica called Green Earth Coffee. Their goal: to provide consumers with exceptional coffee, while providing local farmers and agricultural workers higher wages and better access to medical care. In a Geo Tracker on the side of a mountain, somewhere near Los Sabos, Costa Rica. I argued that online channels are p...
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Cross-Channel Blueprints: A tool for modern IA — Tyler Tate
http://tylertate.com/blog/2012/02/21/cross-channel-ia-blueprint.html
February 21, 2012. Cross-Channel Blueprints: A tool for modern IA. The practice of information architecture is undergoing a tectonic shift away from creating individual websites and towards designing cross-channel experiences that span both the digital from desktop to mobile and the physical from print to storefront. While the information architect’s skillset is well-suited for this new challenge, our existing tools are not. Service blueprints aren’t exactly what we need. Minimal attention to channels.
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Thoughts on the intersection of user experience, search, text analytics and more. Books and book chapters. Tony Russell-Rose and Tyler Tate, “ Designing the Search Experience: the Information Architecture of Discovery. 8220; Morgan Kaufmann, December 2012. Tony Russell-Rose and Paul Clough, “Mining search logs for usage patterns”, In M. Hofmann and A. Chisholm (Eds.), Text Mining and Visualization: Case Studies Using Open-Source Tools. Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2016. Padua, Italy, 20-23 March 2016. 8220; Ada...
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Coping with Sub-pixel Rounding in IE — Tyler Tate
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January 05, 2012. Coping with Sub-pixel Rounding in IE. An old, ugly problem still plagues fluid layouts: sub-pixel rounding. You’ve experienced this nasty issue when elements within your percentage-based layout unexpectedly wrap to the next line in Internet Explorer, or aren’t flush with the right-hand edge in Safari and Chrome. How percentages are rounded into pixel values by the browser. As John Resig documented. In 2008, browsers have adopted different rounding strategies:. This is certainly not a ne...
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On Taking Time Off — Tyler Tate
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November 12, 2014. On Taking Time Off. Our humble autumn abode in the Dordogne region of France. Thus for the first time since his creation man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and agreeably and well. John Maynard Keynes. A Life of Leisure? John Maynard Keynes, in his 1930 essay. Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren.
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The Experience Map — Tyler Tate
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March 19, 2012. Last month when I blogged about the cross-channel blueprint. As a tool for planning the tasks and channels of an ecosystem, several people commented that it failed to fully account for user. Indeed, those comments helped me realize that the cross-channel blueprint is itself a. Diagram useful as a planning tool and for the concise overview it provides but that it must be paired with a. Perspective. One such tool is an obvious companion: the experience map. What is an experience map? Of Ada...
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Retina Images Using Media Queries and LESS CSS: A responsive approach to supporting multiple pixel densities — Tyler Tate
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June 11, 2013. Retina Images Using Media Queries and LESS CSS: A responsive approach to supporting multiple pixel densities. I’ve owned a retina-equipped MacBook Pro since January, and for me, there’s no going back. With retina versions of the iPhone, iPad, and many Android. Devices, supporting high-density devices has become unavoidable. JavaScript vs. CSS. There are two main approaches to delivering images for multiple pixel densities:. Use image tags with JavaScript. Figure { width: 450px; height: 300...
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Better Wayfinding on Pinterest and Spotify — Tyler Tate
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May 12, 2014. Better Wayfinding on Pinterest and Spotify. I want to find some new music to listen to. I need some inspiration for my bicycle renovation project. I’m in the mood to watch a thoughtful, uplifting film. We face these kinds of open-ended tasks everyday, but they are often difficult and frustrating to tackle. (Ever given up in despair after spending half an hour trying to find a film to watch, for instance? While Spotify’s latest version includes a reinvented browse function. I have a few minu...
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