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User experience is the new battleground in software
For the last couple of years I have been thinking about User Experience (UX) design in software projects. I really got into this when I worked at Businesslink for a while on their secure registration...
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Singing Opera’s praises; more clicks than Google
Since as a child I saw the Daily Mail headline: “Passengers hit by cancelled trains”, I have had a closet desire to be a sub-editor. Now at last as the publisher of my own blog I have that privilege so...
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What is the best size for a logo?
[updated 4 April 2011 - removed irrelevant first paragraph] New companies and products need logos and it is important to get these created without too much fuss. To help with this it is useful to have...
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Socratic Fishing in Lake Quora
I have been head down this week doing the R2 End Stage report for my current Android project but I had a chance to read this fascinating article. If you are not familiar with the concepts of the social...
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Design Patterns for Spatial Information Visualisation and Analytics...
In an earlier post I wrote that user experience is the new battleground in software. If that is the case then this post and the referenced resources are good material for fighting it. Design Patterns...
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Load Firefox Tabs Faster with Tab Preferences | The Den | Tips on Using...
This is a neat trick for Firefox users, Load Firefox Tabs Faster with Tab Preferences via Load Firefox Tabs Faster with Tab Preferences | The Den | Tips on Using Firefox | mozilla.org/firefox.
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Presentation tier: Smart Client vs Sencha Ext JS
For our current project Keyapt we have chosen to use Smartclient for the presentation tier. This is RESTfully coupled to business tier. Others I respect have chosen to use the Sencha tools for the same...
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How Recruiters See Your Resume – Business Insider
An interesting insight into recruiters’ behaviour What Recruiters Look At During The 6 Seconds They Spend On Your Resume via How Recruiters See Your Resume – Business Insider.
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Don’t do checklist for web design
I am doing quite a lot of WordPress design at the moment for Lewisham Under Water Hockey Club and Dulwich College Christmas Fair so I will bear this check list of things not to do in mind....
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10 year’s old comment during UX testing
I was doing some UX testing with my 10 year son. When testing a form I asked him how he would move from field to field. He thought about it carefully and then replied “on a horse”.
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Humour: Feedback on God’s creation
I find graphic design to be a thankless task and always try to be a good client. Here are Timothy McSweeney’s ideas about what client feedback God would get about his creation....
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More graphic design humour
I notice that I had not linked to this internet classic. So here goes… http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html
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How to enable a discussion group by email
This year’s pro-bono project is to work with a parents and teachers association and it is throwing up some interesting communication challenges. The range of technical ability in the community is...
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What Microsoft does not want you to know about OneDrive
If you are DropBox user you will love it. It simply works and you can share files with co-workers and they stay in sync on your laptop. Here is screenshot of the folder structure in Windows Explorer on...
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How to create great visuals
A very interesting article from Getty Images on current trends and the “Four I s” that help you to choose visuals that grab the audience.
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