Jumpeye Responsive Web Design Framework Giveaway Winners

Mar 3 2013 by Jacob Gube | No Comments

We ran a giveaway offering up 10 commercial licenses to Jumpeye framework, a responsive web design grid framework for building modern websites. In this post, you’ll find out who the winners of the giveaway are.

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Lessons We Learned from Our Biggest UX and Design Mistakes

Feb 4 2013 by Leo Widrich, Tom Moor | 35 Comments

Lessons We Learned from Our Biggest UX and Design Mistakes

We’ve finally hit the 500,000-user mark at Buffer, a product that helps you share on your social media networks more efficiently. About two years ago when we started on our path to building Buffer, we knew we’d be meeting obstacles and making mistakes along the way.

One of the main things we’ve kept in mind is that making mistakes is unavoidable and that if we choose to learn from them, they’ll be helpful in giving us good guidance on how to move forward more effectively.

And I believe that it’s partly because of these mistakes that we were able to get to where we are today.

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A Comparison of Methods for Building Mobile-Optimized Websites

Jan 7 2013 by Johan Johansson | 51 Comments

A Comparison of Methods for Building Mobile-Optimized Websites

There’s a debate over which technique of creating mobile-ready websites is the best.

Google advocates creating responsive web designs, while Jakob Nielsen, a renowned usability consultant, endorses the creation of dedicated mobile sites (but he was subsequently slammed by some web designers).

A third option is also gaining in popularity, where the web server renders the appropriate HTML and CSS from the same URL depending on the device a web page on the site is being requested from (which has been referred to as responsive design + server side components).

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The Winners of Dot Grid Books from Dotgrid.co

Dec 26 2012 by Jacob Gube | 4 Comments

The Winners of Dot Grid Books from Dotgrid.co

Our giveaway of three dot grid books from Dotgrid.co has recently ended. We had over 170 Six Revisions readers participate in this giveaway! In this post, you’ll get a chance to see who the three lucky winners are.

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Free Download: WinX iPhone iPad Video Software Pack (Worth $89.85)

Dec 20 2012 by Jacob Gube | 2 Comments

Free Download: WinX iPhone iPad Video Software Pack (Worth $89.85)

From now until January 2, 2013, you can download three of Digiarty’s iPhone and iPad software applications — WinX Bluray DVD iPad Ripper, WinX iPhone Video Converter, and WinX iPhone Ringtone Maker — for free.

This software pack is normally worth $89.85, but if you download, install, and use the license code provided by them by January 2, 2013, it’s all yours for free.

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Giveaway: Dot Grid Books for Designers from Dotgrid.co

Dec 13 2012 by Jacob Gube | 178 Comments

We’ve teamed up with the founders of Dotgrid.co — makers of dot grid books for sketching and wireframing — to give out 3 Dotgrid.co dot grid books (A5) with free shipping anywhere in the world. Read on to learn how you can be one of the lucky winners.

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The Winners of Proto.io Lifetime Subscriptions

Dec 7 2012 by Jacob Gube | No Comments

The Winners of Proto.io Lifetime Subscriptions

We recently ran a giveaway of five lifetime subscriptions to Proto.io, a new mobile app prototyping tool. Read this post to see the Six Revisions readers who’ve won themselves a Proto.io Pro subscription that’ll never expire.

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