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Happy Staff = Happy Visitors: Improving Back-of-House Interfaces
“You have to make the back of the fence that people won’t see look just as beautiful as the front, just like a great carpenter would make the back of a chest of drawers … Even though others won’t see...
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Long live RSS
I just made a new Tumblr. It’s called “Recently Digitized Design.” It took me all of five minutes. I hope this blog post will take me all of ten. But it’s actually kinda cool, and here’s why. Cooper...
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Mailchimp & Tessitura together at last
The short version is: There is now an integration between Tessitura & Mailchimp. If you are a Tessitura Licensee, and have access to their BitBucket account, you can get it here. So you can use...
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Press and hold to save your visit
During the development of a major project it’s inevitable that certain features just won’t make it into production in time for launch. Sometimes things fall out of scope, or they get left off the...
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On Exhibitions and Iterations
Since reopening in December 2014, we’ve found that the coming opening of an exhibition is a big driver of iteration. The work involved in preparing an exhibition involves the whole museum and is one of...
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A Very Happy & Open Birthday for the Pen
Today marks the first birthday of our beloved Pen. It’s been an amazing year, filled will many iterations, updates, and above all, visits! Today is a celebration of the Pen, but also of all of our...
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Museums and the Web Conference Recap: Administrative Tools at Cooper Hewitt
The Labs team had a great time at Museums and the Web this year. We published two papers for the conference and presented them both to the audience of cultural heritage thinkers, makers, planners and...
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Object Phone: The continued evolution of a little chatbot
Object Phone is a project that started small, took less than a day to code, and consisted of about a page of code. Initially it was just an experiment–a way for me to explore a new interface to our...
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The Visit Statistics Page
Hi Labs blog readers! My name is Belle and I’m this summer’s Peter A. Krueger intern in the Digital and Emerging Media Department. At the end of my time here I’ll be starting my senior year at...
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Traveling our technology to the U.K.
Visitors to the London Design Biennale use our “clone” of the Wallpaper Immersion Room. Recently, we launched a major initiative at the inaugural London Design Biennale at Somerset House. The...
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