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I’ve always been a bit of methodology junkie, so imagine my delight when I stumbled upon this great Beta E-book on design methodologies. Author Hugh Dubberly walks us over 100 different processes and methodologies in his book How do you design? Having this kind of resource always with you must be really handy if you’re […]
Getting a chance to work in industry that you’ve heard so much in school is a really great experience. Today I’m hyped up about designing user interfaces and writing specifications for how things should work. Personally, I’m a big fan of paper prototypes. A technique where you create low-fidelity prototypes that allow you to iterate […]
Doing usability in startups is often very confusing as you don’t have time for proper process and you’re always wondering how good you could do it, if you had proper resources. With time, you wish you would just be able to read some of these resources in order to be in touch with your industry. […]
At DrupalCon, Leisa and her team introduced their efforts to redesign drupal.org page. They want to make it a community driven process where all the existing and potential users can give input at all the design stages. The latest step in this effort is her invitation to the community to send in wireframes and sketches […]
Trying a latest software update is something that every true Apple user does in the morning after the big Apple announcement. So this time it was iTunes 8 with it’s genius button that automatically makes great connected playlist. For some reason I was sleepy enough to actually fail at their Genius/iTunes store login form. Whoever […]
Getting a CrackBerry was my latest step in showing total devotion to my employers big ideas about changing they way people blog. Since we use Google Apps for part of our intranet solution I thought it would be nice to integrate this gadget with their servers. Sadly this made my already bad initial experience with […]
Source: ShutterstockRecently my Sennheiser headphones died after a decade of everyday abuse. I wanted to buy something similar in about 100 Eur class. Sadly the two biggest Slovenian stores failed to help me locate a perfect new pair in a number of ways. I started with EnaA and entered into their search general term “headphones” […]
The Eclipse project, providing a powerful IDE editor, has a smart download page that detects what kind of platform you are on related to that suggests you download page. The only problem is that in the process they fail to clearly communicate download links. Screenshot with important areas highlighted is as such: What happened here […]
At the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin I was given a business card with a special code on it, that one enters into form field at vcrd.net and gets back that persons contacts in a vCard microformat. It is then possible to import this into virtually any Personal Information Management application. Using their application I […]
Some time ago I read Cory Doctorows editorial about possible ways that your ex-coworkers will kill Facebook; because your colleagues and bosses will want to be friends on Facebook with their employees, and in process invade privacy of things they do in their personal life and would rather keep it private. Instead of denying their […]