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Instagram Direct is Much Better Than Snapchat

With Instagram 5.0 (Google Play Store, Apple App Store), released earlier today, you can now send photos to specific people with a feature called “Instagram Direct.” It’s obvious that Instagram developed this feature to compete with Snapchat. I’d like to weigh the pros and cons of Instagram Direct, and hopefully steer you away from using Snapchat when you want to share a normal picture with a friend. I also want to discuss Instagram as a…

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iOS 7’s Design: My Problem with Borderless Buttons

  I like Apple. Their hardware, which epitomizes modern design, is powerful and revolutionary. Their sleek software embodies a near-perfect user experience for a majority of their audience. When Apple revealed iOS 7, their latest mobile OS, I was very excited for the radical redesign. But after using the new operating system for just a couple of seconds, I discovered that Apple had made a huge mistake with their design of iOS 7: Navigation buttons…

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