Our "Why Ugly Design Converts" was included in printing #2.
The publisher, Cheng, reached out to us - asked permission, and gave us the opportunity to make edits.
I assume he does this with everybody, so there's certainly no exploitation of the article writers .
Next, he went through our blog article and made it beautiful with more thought and care than even we had.
I feel indebted to Cheng and his team, we've gotten several mentions from other folks we work with about the article, and being included has been a fantastic marketing tool to show to prospective clients.
Let me sum up:
a) I was left with the impression that Cheng's motivations are built from passion, and his process is incredibly transparent.
b) I support the magazine to give other members of this community the opportunity to be featured when they put together something that the community finds compelling.
c) Maybe Cheng should give the top 100 stories in a given month the opportunity to BUY slots in the magazine. The amount of work he did to make our crummy blog writing look professional, and the fact that it's a brilliant marketing tool would have easily been worth the price of admission. No conflict because he's pulling from top voted stories anyways.
if by readability you mean obscurity. URL shortening breaks one of the best features of URLs: that the url exposes the location and name of the resource.
The publisher, Cheng, reached out to us - asked permission, and gave us the opportunity to make edits.
I assume he does this with everybody, so there's certainly no exploitation of the article writers .
Next, he went through our blog article and made it beautiful with more thought and care than even we had.
I feel indebted to Cheng and his team, we've gotten several mentions from other folks we work with about the article, and being included has been a fantastic marketing tool to show to prospective clients.
Let me sum up:
a) I was left with the impression that Cheng's motivations are built from passion, and his process is incredibly transparent.
b) I support the magazine to give other members of this community the opportunity to be featured when they put together something that the community finds compelling.
c) Maybe Cheng should give the top 100 stories in a given month the opportunity to BUY slots in the magazine. The amount of work he did to make our crummy blog writing look professional, and the fact that it's a brilliant marketing tool would have easily been worth the price of admission. No conflict because he's pulling from top voted stories anyways.
Thanks Cheng for the work you continue to do!
Edit: Our "Why Ugly Design Converts" article - http://bit.ly/a2w9xO