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September 09, 2009, 0 Comments

Your Post Box Is Too Small

Most content creation tools (think WordPress, MT, Blogger) relegate content creation to a secondary page. Adam Mathes argues that this is bass-ackwards, complete with examples:

Twitter gets it right. This is why anyone - even confused celebrities who barely comprehend technology - can actually use this product. You show up, there’s a box at the top, you type in it, and it shows up below with other people’s stuff you can read.

If content creation is the primary action, it should be presented that way.

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I'm M. Jackson Wilkinson, a technologist, designer, speaker, educator, and writer in San Francisco. I recently moved from Washington, DC to work as a Senior Product Designer at LinkedIn, and am happy to take your feedback. I'm from Philadelphia, went to Bowdoin College in Maine, root for the Phillies, and love to sing.

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