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Contributing Author

Alex Schleifer

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Alex Schleifer

Alex is CEO of Sideshow , an award winning creative agency. You can read his blog here.

Contributions to UXM

195 pieces
1
Class of 2011

The History of Information

2
Class of 2011

Mogulus cleans up its act with LiveStream.com

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Class of 2011

Bubblewrap 2.0

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Class of 2011

Best visualization projects of 2008

5
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The Amazing Google-Cycle

6
Class of 2011

See the web like Kanye

7
Class of 2011

Twitter Beating Google in Real-Time

8
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Twittering away while moving to Drupal

9
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Managing Vanguard's Investor Experience

10
Class of 2010

Facebook updates its Communication Channels Best Practices

11
Class of 2010

Adobe AIR gets smart(phone)

12
Class of 2010

Microsoft reboots the experience with new Windows Phone OS

13
Class of 2010

Google introduces MyTwitterbook (aka Buzz)

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Class of 2010

Adobe promises faster Mac Flash

15
Class of 2010

The Google Phone is official, still called Nexus One

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Class of 2010

Microsoft demos impressive muscle to computer interface

17
Class of 2009

The Google Phone is Real

18
Class of 2009

Apple acquires Lala

19
Class of 2009

Big Changes Coming to Facebook

20
Class of 2009

Mobile Apps: Models, Money and Loyalty

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Class of 2009

Sugru: the ultimate (offline) hacking tool

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Tim Berners-Lee video interview

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Class of 2009

Twitter not going for paid-subscriptions in Japan after all

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Trendsmap puts trends on the map

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Augmented Reality Tube Finder

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Google Wave Announced!

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Palm Pre Emulator Videos

28
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2010 Toyota Prius Microsite

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Google's New Product Logos

30
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PicFog, Real-time Image Search

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Totally Excellent WolframAlpha Easter Eggs

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WolframAlpha Launches

33
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Facebook App Directory Redesign

34
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Microsoft's Future Home

35
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Jobless Apple?

36
Class of 2008

UX Magazine redesign?

37
Class of 2008

Gmail adds themes

38
Class of 2008

Give up and use tables

39
Class of 2008

Minority Report, now.

40
Class of 2008

Flash Player 10 is Out

41
Class of 2008

Harbour in a bathtub

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Experience Design Manifesto

43
Class of 2008

Test-drive the GPhone (kinda)

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Class of 2008

As Seen on YouTube

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Class of 2008

Your medium is dying!

46
Class of 2008

iPhone UI Assets

47
Class of 2008

Video: Microsoft's Spherical Multitouch Display

48
Class of 2008

This is Steve Jobs

49
Class of 2008

New Facebook design is out (for most people)

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Class of 2008

Video: Man Sized Wreath

51
Class of 2008

Google's Social Search UI

52
Class of 2008

Fun: The restaurant called "Translate Server Error"

53
Class of 2008

The New Xbox Experience

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Class of 2008

New Facebook profile design

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Class of 2008

Fun: Improv Everywhere's Human Mirror

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Reverse auto-complete

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Gearwatch: Kodak Theatre HD Player

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Class of 2008

Draw professional floorplans online

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Class of 2008

First Shots of Blackberry's iPhone Alternative

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Class of 2008

Build your own search engine with Yahoo! BOSS

61
Class of 2008

Domize - Crazy Quick Domain Look-up

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Class of 2008

Iran Photoshops Missile Launch

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Class of 2008

Turn your iPhone (or iPod Touch) into a WiFi remote

64
Class of 2008

Google launches Lively

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Class of 2008

Great Package Design

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Class of 2008

Gmail Usability Lab

67
Class of 2008

Great Art by Deseo

68
Class of 2008

Smithsonian on Flickr!

69
Class of 2008

Design Custom M&M's

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Class of 2008

Gorgeous Business Cards

71
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Spore Creature Creator!

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Class of 2008

Bill Gates Rants!

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Class of 2008

New Yahoo Logo Spotted in the Wild

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Class of 2008

Productive Procrastination?

75
Class of 2008

Fight the Smears

76
Class of 2008

Facial Recognition in Video

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Potential Firefox Mobile UI in Action

78
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One more thing...

79
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The Girl Effect

80
Class of 2008

Java now with added Yahoo!?

81
Class of 2008

Scary secret copyright treaty leaked

82
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Sunset on Mars

83
Class of 2008

Build Fonts with FontStruct

84
Class of 2008

The Way Photos Should be Browsed

85
Class of 2008

True Smart Pen from LiveScribe

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Prince of Persia on Speed

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Master the Internet!

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Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

89
Class of 2008

Beautiful Packaging

90
Class of 2008

Acrobat.com Launches

91
Class of 2008

Multiple versions of IE made easy

92
Class of 2008

Music video incorporates 24 virals

93
Class of 2008

Tactile touchscreens?

94
Class of 2008

Direct Manipulation of Video

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Class of 2008

Lederhosen with iPod controls

96
Class of 2008

Free sound effects & loops

97
Class of 2008

Yahoo! buy-out goes supernova

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Class of 2008

Google App Engine

99
Class of 2008

Turn your paper to iPaper for free

100
Class of 2008

960 Grid System

101
Class of 2008

13 Worst gaming innovations of all time

102
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Gnomepal

103
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Adobe Photoshop Express

104
Class of 2008

South Park Studios

105
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Accessible jQuery extensions

106
Class of 2008

Portfolios that accomplish goals

107
Class of 2008

Will you Twitter me?

108
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Amazon Launches Fulfilment Web Service

109
Class of 2008

Web 2.0 venture charts

110
Class of 2008

Adobe still building Flash for iPhone

111
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Patent Room

112
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The Real Mario

113
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Flash Lite Licensed for Windows Mobile

114
Class of 2008

Down for everyone or just me?

115
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Flickr Video Next Month?

116
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Apple's DVR future

117
Class of 2008

Asciify

118
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Logo evolution

119
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Creative Flash preloaders

120
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MyLoki

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New YouTube API

122
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Hillary Clinton sheds some skin in Aviary

123
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Bill Gates: the last day at Microsoft

124
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Xerox unveils new brand

125
Class of 2007

Internet Explorer 8 Passes Acid Test

126
Class of 2007

BBC Beta Homepage

127
Class of 2007

OpenSocial is go!

128
Class of 2007

Y! Music exec speaks out against DRM

129
Class of 2007

New Sony Bravia ad

130
Class of 2007

The Design Curve

131
Class of 2007

FT Bowen Craggs Index

132
Class of 2007

New Google Docs Released

133
Class of 2007

Spiekerman Interview

134
Class of 2007

The new CNN.com beta

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Class of 2007

London 2012 brand video

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Class of 2007

New brand launches for London 2012

137
Class of 2007

Google Maps introduces 360 street views

138
Class of 2007

Apple's pretty products work better

139
Class of 2007

Creative Suite 3 trials

140
Class of 2007

New Google Analytics: First Impressions

141
Class of 2007

Cameroid is go!

142
Class of 2007

MySpace acquires Photobucket

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Class of 2007

Yahoo! moves Photos to Flickr

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Class of 2007

Pandora is now US-only

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Class of 2007

Spamazon!

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Class of 2007

Microsoft could well deliver with Silverlight

147
Class of 2007

Fotowoosh

148
Class of 2007

AOL "hearts" Yahoo!

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Class of 2007

The password is "password"

150
Class of 2007

The password is "password"

151
Class of 2007

sIFR 3

152
Class of 2007

Snap.com is hiring

153
Class of 2007

Highrise is here

154
Class of 2007

Adobe Apollo Alpha

155
Class of 2007

Design comes to Davos

156
Class of 2007

Dim reviews for Vista

157
Class of 2007

Yahoo! Pipes

158
Class of 2007

Ms. Dewey

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Class of 2007

Bluesky Challenge

160
Class of 2007

IMified

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Rethink the web

162
Class of 2007

The wow factor?

163
Class of 2007

53 CSS techniques

164
Class of 2007

Apple TV & iPhone

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Class of 2007

Live from MacWorld 2007

166
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Apple in 2007

167
Class of 2006

3 million Wiis sold

168
Class of 2006

Microsoft.com Redesigned

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Class of 2006

Snap Preview Anywhere

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Class of 2006

Firebug 1.0 Beta

171
Class of 2006

IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine

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Class of 2006

CodeIDE

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Class of 2006

Teehan+Lax UX Fund

174
Class of 2006

Flash Player Penetration Stats

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Class of 2006

Websnapr

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Giant bug

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Class of 2006

Google buy JotSpot

178
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Nasty IE7 bug

179
Class of 2006

Yahoo! Bookmarks! 2.0!

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Firefox 2.0

181
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Old Commodore ads

182
Class of 2006

Shaun Inman redesigns

183
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SueTube

184
Class of 2006

Jack Slocum's blog

185
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Internet Explorer 7 Released

186
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Can you smell something burning?

187
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Our life in beta

188
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IE7 First Impressions

189
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Positiva Records

190
Class of 2006

Apple Changes to the Core

191
Class of 2005

All Salmon Swim Against the Current

192
Class of 2005

Let Me Entertain You

193
Class of 2005

All Your Base are Belong to Google

194
Class of 2005

Your Business Brickyard

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Class of 2005

Flock Developer Beta