In his book Ambient Findability and SXSW session, Peter Morville, presented his user experience honeycomb that shows how user experience is shaped by a series of dynamic and interconnected qualities.
Useful — To have the courage and creativity to ask whether our products are useful and be able to develop innovation solutions to make them more […]
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The big news of Rails 1.1 has hit. Upgrades were happening fast and furious all over the land. Except here. We’re just about to deploy our third rails app and there is no way in Hades that we would try and pull an upgrade in the middle of that.
Update: Of course, the […]
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Scott came back from SXSW all jazzed about microformats …and really, who could blame him? It’s something so simple and easy to implement (it’s just markup) that to not embrace them is an act of stubborness.
But the first step in taking advantage of a microfomat is knowing of it’s existence. For that, we […]
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Wherein IE 7 drops on us like a ton of bricks.
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Microformats are an informal means of marking up web pages with semantically meaningful metadata to allow for greater interoperability with other applications.
About Microformats
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats intend to […]
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Here’s a loose collection of thoughts, ideas and quotes from SXSW this year.
Demystifying the Mobile Web
When thinking about a mobile web problem, remember…
Context
Content
Component
Web 2.1: Making Web 2.0 Accessible
Don’t read WCAG 2.0, read Understanding WCAG 2.0
Whether a site works with or without Javascript is an interoperability problem, not necessarily accessibility.
Holistic Web Design
def: Importance of the whole […]
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Fangs, a very nice screen reader emulator, has been updated to work with Firefox 1.5x. There is a catch though. Right now it seems that you have to install 0.99, restart Firefox, check for updates, install 1.0, and restart Firefox again.
Annoying? Yes. Glad to have Fangs back in the tool kit? […]
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Now that Campfire is “free for life” we thought we would give it a spin (guest link).
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Get them while they’re hot.
Notes from “How to be a Web Design Superhero” presented by Andy Clarke and Andy Budd.
Powers you need to be a web design superhero
Keep pace with new trends and technologies
Be Agile
Stretch yourself
Understand your clients needs
Be able to convince your client that what they think they need, is not actually what they need
Empathy - Understand your […]
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