links – do you really know where you want to go?

January 16, 2008

I had an interesting discussion with a co-worker yesterday about file-naming. A given project has pages dedicated to their leadership team and we were deciding how best to name these files of biographical information. Initially I felt very strongly that a page describing Julie Maples should be named jmaples.xxx, since it describes the content. That [...]

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Open information leading to less information?

August 18, 2007

On our way to chipotle the other day for lunch, a coworker mentioned some recent legislation being passed in New York “requiring restaurants with standard portions that make caloric information publicly available also post the information on menus, where consumers can see it when they order.” A possible response is that companies will stop presenting [...]

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UIBB

June 6, 2007

In a discussion about common UI building blocks, I started thinking more about the development of patterns. Rather than focussing on the implementation of a specific UIBB, perhaps we need to take a step back and look at the common issues that need to be addressed. We are talking about levels of variation (personalization, customization), [...]

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what’s in a name… how should I know???

July 31, 2006

I’m working on a new project, and after reading What’s in a Name, What’s in a Name Part Two and Elemental Nomenclature, I want to try to set up some semantically-relevant ids for the page elements. In looking at the wireframe I was provided with, I am identifying the major sections and trying to decide [...]

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