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	<link>http://www.catalystnyc.com</link>
	<description>Welcome to CoFactors, the research + development crucible for Catalyst Group Design. Here, we expand and codify our observations and experience independent of clientdriven situations. Our position as consultants gives us an exceptionally broad view of the Web and interface design issues + culture. Feel free to link to our blog, send feedback, download white papers or even to read about developments in our own business.</description>
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		<title>On the Importance of Pay Filters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why buy the cow when the milk is free? Lessons from MeetUp.com's decision to go "for pay"]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catalystnyc.com/cofactors/2011/01/on-the-importance-of-pay-filters/</link>
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		<title>iPads + Women Pop Artists = ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[iPads + Women Pop Artists = ?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catalystnyc.com/cofactors/2011/01/ipads-women-pop-artists/</link>
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		<title>What Good Design Can Do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good, usable design is crucial to the success or failure of online products - even startups.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catalystnyc.com/cofactors/2011/01/what-good-design-can-do/</link>
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		<title>Using Social Forces to Influence Behavior</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting example of using social forces to influence behavior and communicating these forces through form design.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catalystnyc.com/cofactors/2010/11/using-social-forces-to-influence-behavior/</link>
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		<title>On UX and Manipulation (and Peter Merholz)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A response to @peterme on the subject of UX and manipulation.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catalystnyc.com/cofactors/2010/11/on-ux-and-manipulation-and-peter-merholz/</link>
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		<title>Little Things Mean a Lot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Talk about constant, subtle refinement! Google modifies the Gmail homepage. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/gmail-homepage-makeover.html]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catalystnyc.com/cofactors/2010/11/little-things-mean-a-lot-2/</link>
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		<title>Got my new iPad stand last night&#8230;..sooooo awesome.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in from Catalyst mobile design expert Chris Calabrese:
Got my new iPad stand last night&#8230;..sooooo awesome.
This gorgeous iPad stand was hand crafted without the aid of electric tools in the Provence of Baldwin, Long Island. Scraps of wood found in a cellar were assembled with six nails and then roughly sanded to give this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catalystnyc.com/cofactors/2010/11/got-my-new-ipad-stand-last-night-sooooo-awesome/</link>
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		<title>Amusing Bank Slogans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday fun: Amusing Bank Slogans]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catalystnyc.com/cofactors/2010/10/amusing-bank-slogans/</link>
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		<title>Usability as Wet Blanket?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article by Don Norman and Jakob Nielsen makes a lot of valid points about the many ways in which gestural interfaces on the iPhone and iPad (and other touchscreen devices) completely disregard a host of established usability principles. Jeffrey Zeldman made similar points in his recent &#8220;iPad as the new Flash&#8221; post. Nielsen and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catalystnyc.com/cofactors/2010/10/usability-as-wet-blanket/</link>
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		<title>Fall into the Gap (logo)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I, and thousands of others, have been having a jolly old time for the last couple of days (mostly on Twitter) snarking all over the new Gap logo. For those of you who have had better things to do than follow this scandal, here&#8217;s the brief:
1. Gap launches awful new logo (see it here)
2. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catalystnyc.com/cofactors/2010/10/fall-into-the-gap-logo/</link>
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