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	<description>The portfolio and blog of Catherine Small, a New York-based Graphic and Web Designer.</description>
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		<title>Hexapong</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 04:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I created the visual assets, as well as comps of scenarios for a touchscreen game called Hexapong.]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s wrong with Google&#8217;s new Hangouts app?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 21:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week at Google I/O, a new app called Hangouts was released. It was the long-needed conglomeration of Google Talk and Google+ everyone expected long ago, it&#8217;s available across devices, and it looks great. But underneath that initial sheen, problems have started to appear &#8212; there are several inconsistencies across the Hangouts apps. Online/offline status problems The hangouts app shows who&#8217;s online on the web and Chrome apps, but not on the iPad or Android ones. Displaying online users is a pretty crucial function, as it determines who people attempt to talk to and who they ignore. It makes Hangouts less of an instant messaging app and more of a service similar to email or Twitter DMs, which definitely wasn&#8217;t the purpose... <a href="http://cattsmall.com/2013/05/whats-wrong-with-googles-new-hangouts-app/" class="readmore-link">Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How&#8217;s your culture?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 22:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Culture matters. It&#8217;s the bond that keeps a country from war. It&#8217;s a source of pride. It makes history. Culture affects whether your coworkers are productive or disgruntled. It&#8217;s what many companies lack. Beer, ping pong, and shiny iMacs are not culture. So what is? Having lunch together, laughing with each other, being honest, supporting one another, and working together as a team are all parts of a positive culture. Stifling ideas, insulting coworkers behind others&#8217; backs, being secretive, and getting drunk on a weekday because work sucks is also culture &#8212; negative culture. What keeps us working? Positive company culture. How do people who work at companies with a positive culture differ mentally and physically from their counterparts? Let&#8217;s... <a href="http://cattsmall.com/2013/05/hows-your-culture/" class="readmore-link">Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>SwitchButtons</title>
		<link>http://cattsmall.com/2013/04/switchbuttons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SwitchButtons are a set of toggle buttons built for prototyping interactions.]]></description>
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		<title>My Life as a Product Designer + General Updateage</title>
		<link>http://cattsmall.com/2013/02/my-life-as-a-product-designer-general-updateage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to write about how awesome product design is for Valentine&#8217;s Day, but I had a lot of work to do and that idea got scrapped fast. It&#8217;s been about a year [of my second term] at NASDAQ, and I&#8217;ve learned how much I really enjoy product design. It&#8217;s the perfect combination of visual design, UX, and code. I was at first hired as more of a straight-up web designer, but with time I absorbed information about research, user interviews, new frameworks, plugins, and best practices from my coworkers. I grew from a person with the possibility of being something into someone who designs products that are utilized by (hundreds of?) thousands of people in a short 12 months.... <a href="http://cattsmall.com/2013/02/my-life-as-a-product-designer-general-updateage/" class="readmore-link">Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>NYC Reinvent Payphones</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was a proposal for the NYC Reinvent Payphones contest.]]></description>
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		<title>New year, new look; plus, a new group &#8211; Tech Under Thirty</title>
		<link>http://cattsmall.com/2013/01/new-year-new-look-plus-a-new-group-tech-under-thirty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's been a long while since I last blogged. I've been crazy busy, working my ass off at NASDAQ as a Product Designer. I tackle big UX problems daily; our team is redesigning a ton of NASDAQ's web apps. I've learned that UX really fulfills my needs. I've always enjoyed designing and coding, but I also love designing the perfect application that affirms the target users' mental models. Therefore, this year, I'm going to try to focus on becoming a great Product Designer.]]></description>
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		<title>Al the Chemist</title>
		<link>http://cattsmall.com/2013/01/al-the-chemist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm in charge of the foreground art, web design &#038; print design for Al the Chemist, a chemistry puzzle game.]]></description>
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		<title>Tech Under Thirty</title>
		<link>http://cattsmall.com/2012/12/tech-under-thirty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the responsive website I built for the Meetup I run, Tech Under Thirty.]]></description>
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		<title>Is it time for you to switch jobs?</title>
		<link>http://cattsmall.com/2012/02/is-it-time-for-you-to-switch-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://cattsmall.com/2012/02/is-it-time-for-you-to-switch-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone! It&#8217;s been the usual long time, and I&#8217;m back with more life experience for you to partake in! In June of 2011, I was hired as an Interactive Designer at a small startup. After working there as a freelance contractor for about nine months, I decided it was time to find a new workplace. My decision wasn&#8217;t truly necessary if you just look at the hard facts: my salary was acceptable for the average entry-level American designer, I had flexible hours, a good computer, a steady workload filled with interesting projects, friendly workers, and guaranteed a full-time position whenever the company was able to switch its workers from freelance to permanent. However, behind each of these facts was... <a href="http://cattsmall.com/2012/02/is-it-time-for-you-to-switch-jobs/" class="readmore-link">Read More</a>]]></description>
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