Given my recent switch to Open Office, this blog is exactly what I need these days :) (via Kathy Sierra)
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all the 2.0 apps you could ever want and then some… (although, obviously there are more that we don’t *know* that we need yet…)
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in case the first list wasn’t enough… here’s another
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If you are just beginning to get into design you really shouldn’t look at learning CSS as an option or something to do down the road. Start learning it immediately.
a (currently free) service that backs up any MySQL blog remotely. Nice idea, but am I the only person feeling a little reticent about giving someone else all my content in a nice little bundle like that. (yes, yes… I know, they could just as easily get it all via RSS… so I’m being paranoid. right?
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ChipIn is a service that allows lots of people to put money together for a common cause – fundraising, a group present etc. I could see this working quite well for the kids at
one day when I finally get around to ‘branding’ myself (or, more to the point, briefing someone competent to do it for me!), I’ll definitely need a favicon. In fact… maybe i need a temporary one now!
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Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. Tres cool.
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an intermediate-level book about interface and interaction design, structured as a pattern language. This site contains excerpts from some of the book’s patterns. The book has more, of course — more introductory material, more patterns, and more examples
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so we’ve talked about patterns quite a lot lately… now, via Wikipedia, I give you ‘antipatterns’. but, of course!
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Marc compares the ‘default images’ you find at Flickr, 43 Things and Last.FM and asks how the design of these icons might influence whether people replace them with their own images/avatars or not. Interesting.
A great response by Joshua Porter to Don Norman’s recent attack on Google’s design (Derek Powazek has apparently also been having a go at Google’s design… I haven’t gotten to that yet)
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an *amazing* way to see a whole lot of images. Check it out.
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“If you can’t explain the design, it must not be right yet.” – some thoughts on *how* to articulate and communicate design in the concept stage to your client.
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I wish I was going to Webstock. Look at their amazing speaker list! I hope someone will be doing lots of liveblogging while it’s on (please!). eh. The downside to freelancing. No company training budget to send you off to conferences. *sigh*
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Richard MacManus reports that one of Yahoo’s ‘Big Bets for the next 5 years’ is Next Generation Experience/User experience. We’ve definitely seen them taking laying the ground work for this. (other Big Bets include Monetization, Platforms, and Beyond the Browser).
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did you know Adaptive Path now had a blog? Here’s a post from it. Here Brandon Schauer lists five perceived attributes that inform people’s decisions about adopting new technologies (via Everett M Rogers’ book Diffusion of Innovations): relative advantage, compatability, complexity, trialability and observability
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here’s Derek Powazek’s critique of Google design. He starts off criticising the visual design, but it’s really more an interaction design critique in the end. The overall moral being ‘don’t just copy Google’. For me, I think attacking the search homepage is a little easy, given how much of Google there is to critique now – not the least of which, how it all might come together.
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GOMS is a modeling technique (more specifically, a family of modeling techniques) that analyzes the user complexity of interactive systems.
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Session notes from Ajax Experience Day 3: Bill Scott on Ajax Design (Patterns and Principles) via Ajaxian
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[not] .. everything should be easy and natural. But the challenges should never be in the use of a thing. …The challenges are what makes the activity engaging and,…worth it. But the tools you use to meet those challenges should get out of your way!
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