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  • Inline Translation on Facebook Comments


    Usability Dimensions — Authority Authority: 98
    Facebook comments on Wall or a Page has a nice little feature – of language translation if some comment is not in your set language. This inline translation translates into a good user experience. Check it out!  
    2 days ago

  • Easy and Cheap User Testing


    Communication in a Web Saturated World — Authority Authority: 401
    Image: David Castillo Dominici / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Most website owners don’t do usability testing. It is the first thing cut from budgets. It is always perceived to be time consuming and expensive. Jakob Nielsen points out that these perceptions are very wrong. “Simple usability tests where users think out ...
    3 days ago

  • Repository usability review 3: new deposit protocols


    Modus Operandi for Repository Deposits — Authority Authority: 102
    This is one of a series of posts building towards a full paper on the use and testing of the repository deposit tools, specifically for deposit of in-progress work, developed in the JISC DepositMO project. In this post we continue and complete our review of repository usability studies, here considering repository ...
    3 days ago

  • Four Things I have Learned from Steve Jobs


    Communication in a Web Saturated World — Authority Authority: 401
    Article first published as Four Things I have Learned from Steve Jobs on Technorati. I recently read Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson .  I found the book both interesting and annoying, something I think summarizes how many people felt about Jobs as a person. Never having made billions myself, I feel in a ...
    4 days ago

  • eMusic Getting it Wrong


    Man with no Blog — Authority Authority: 79
    Times have just got to change. I’m a little sick of living in a world that is regionalise into sales and licencing zones for no real reason besides to restrict sales due to some arcane money grubbing corporate policy. What makes matters worse is people building experiences that highlight this and rub our face in it ...
    5 days ago

  • Solar Power Gate Openers Increases Distance From the Nearest Power Source


    Paternal Prose — Authority Authority: 146
    As security becomes an increasing issue in today’s world and gates become an ever more popular measure to protect homes, continued solutions must be developed to allow them to become useful additions to the property rather than cumbersome obstructions. Installing an electric gate opener greatly increases their ...
    1 week ago

  • Mobile User Experience


    Thoughts Unlimited — Authority Authority: 89
    User Experience is important in all forms of Applications.  It is extremely critical and significant in case of Mobile Applications. However, Mobile UX is extremely underestimated and overlooked when Desktop Web Applications are transformed into Mobile Web Applications.  Essentially, Mobile UX can be categorized ...
    1 week ago

  • XML Schema (XSD): Using Compositors


    dzone.com: latest front page — Authority Authority: 146
    In XML, you can use XSDs to define markup structures in varying levels of detail. Compositors are among the many XSD structures you can choose from when specifying your XML content models.
    1 week ago

  • How-to Sketch a Website in a reusable way


    dzone.com: latest front page — Authority Authority: 146
    Very interesting approach to website sketching / prototyping.
    1 week ago

  • Just-in-time Logging


    dzone.com: latest front page — Authority Authority: 146
    One of my tasks at my previous employer was to fix some very intractable bugs based purely on some very out of date logs. The majority of the bugs were not reproducible. I did ask for more log entries to be added in order to help pin down the problems but the client didnt want this for a number of reasons. Two of ...
    1 week ago

  • Androids Back Button


    willitscript.com — Authority Authority: 102
    Speaking of the developer guidelines for Android: the inconsistent behavior of the back button is the single most common irritation I’ve read when it comes to Android. If developers adhere to the new guidelines for Navigation with Back and Up this should mostly not be a problem any longer. A bit puzzling though ...
    1 week ago

  • Make Legacy VB 6 Components Work With .NET Applications


    dzone.com: latest front page — Authority Authority: 146
    Most IT professionals do not work in state of the art design shops with all the latest developer suites available to them. Many of us have to make older applications and components work with newer technologies. I found myself in this predicament last year when I was required to make a new ASP.NET (3.5) web ...
    1 week ago

  • New Rules from NRF 2012, Part 2: First Look Track Recap


    Segment/Target/Personalize// The Monetate Blog — Authority Authority: 102
    The third day of the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) 101st Annual Convention & Expo, known as Retail’s BIG Show, continued to deliver informative content that many retailers could go home and put into action. I…
    1 week ago

  • The Image Control for Silverlight Windows Phone Apps


    dzone.com: latest front page — Authority Authority: 146
    The Image Control allows me to display images in my Silverlight Windows Phone 7 application. To have a first closer look at this control I just created a new project and dragged an Image Control to my main form. In my properties window I have a little helper, an ellipsis button next to the Source property. The source ...
    1 week ago

  • Get inside their heads: 12 factors that impact whether customers click “buy”


    Shop.org Blog — Authority Authority: 98
    As I started to take notes, I was a bit startled to hear Amy’s opening question: “If you and I were alone in this room, how would you kill me?” A self-described usability specialist, Eight by Eight’s Amy Africa knows how to get one’s attention – but more importantly, what gets people to buy (and not). In ...
    1 week ago

  • Attention - IxDA/UX/UI afficionados - upcoming meetup - Interaction After Hours (IxDA Columbus)


    TechLife Columbus — Authority Authority: 122
    Interaction After Hours (IxDA Columbus) click here to register: Fellow Columbus IxDA Folks and Friends,Get ready to have a great time at our January After Hours Event. This is a chance to visit a local design organization and share some knowledge, meet some local designers, and... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
    1 week ago

  • Pirate Attitudes: SOPA, PIPA, and the Struggle to Control Digital Properties


    The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority Authority: 556
    On the Wednesday of SOPA protests worldwide, its time to consider why these bills run counter to the security and reliability of the Internet itself. Continue reading »
    1 week ago

  • Dos and Don’ts of Web Design [It pays to be simple because it pays to be understood.]


    pluGGd.in — Authority Authority: 579
    Since the emergence of the Internet, the demands of web communication and web design has never been this demanding. Internet communication has come a long way since the series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT in August 1962 discussing his “Galactic Network” concept. He envisioned the very initial ...
    1 week ago

  • No RIP for RIM


    Ahren Code — Authority Authority: 94
    Everyone and his dog has now opined on how RIM – maker of Blackberry mobile phones, once standard accessory with power suits – can reverse its current death march. Abandon the quaint co-CEO setup. Run Windows Phone OS. So on. The suggestions are plenty. And now there is talk of acquisition. Better, I think, ...
    1 week ago

  • Unlocking the door to usability


    Alexandra Samuel — Authority Authority: 407
    Read the original post at Unlocking the door to usability . At the Lace Market Hotel, Nottingham.   This is the sign on the inside of my hotel room door. I love the fact that a traditional door — you know, of the lock-and-key rather than magnetic card variety — now requires documentation. It’s a ...
    1 week ago

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