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December 30, 2009

Notify stands to transform how you monitor your email.

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Do you need wireframes if you’re using a CMS?

August 6, 2009

For some of our projects at work, we use a content management system like Drupal, Joomla or Wordpress to run our websites. This allows our clients to add or edit content more easily, and it also eliminates a lot of custom coding by a developer.
A CMS (to learn more about content management systems, check [...]

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August 5, 2009

While at Resource Interactive, I took training in and worked on several products with the ATG product suite. ATG is at the core an e-commerce solutions provider, with a stated goal as follows:
Our goal: to power the world’s most engaging and rewarding online shopping experiences. We are our customers’ first stop in providing the [...]

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Designing the Moment Book Review

July 9, 2009

In his first book, Designing the Obvious, Robert Hoekman, Jr. described seven core tenets of great Web application design:

Build only what’s necessary
Quickly turn beginning users into intermediates
Prevent errors whenever possible and handle the errors we cannot prevent gracefully
Reduce and refine interactions and task flows until even the most complicated applications are clear and understandable
Design to [...]

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What’s more Mobile than AAA?

June 9, 2009

‘What’s more mobile than the American Automobile Association’, I found myself thinking as I was stranded on the side of the road last night. Evidently, the unique benefits to mobile haven’t yet come to AAA Colorado. However, I had some time to consider it for them:

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Designing for the Social Web – Book Review and Giveaway

June 2, 2009

I have been a fan of Joshua Porter and his writings over at the Bokardo Blog for quite awhile. When he announced that he’d written a book, Designing for the Social Web, I knew I wanted to read it. It’s taken me a year since its release, but I finally was able to read [...]

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What is IT? Information vs Interactive Technology

April 28, 2009

The inevitable business card exchange occurs at a networking event. You meet Jay Simpson, who tells you he’s an IT director.
IT? What does that even mean anymore?

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Subject to Change Book Review

March 10, 2009

The Adaptive Path book “Subject to Change” quite literally landed on my desk to review. As a long-time fan of the work of Jesse James Garrett and the folks at Adaptive Path, I was eager to read this book on “creating great products and services for an uncertain world” right away.
Several years ago when [...]

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One Reason North America is so far behind in Mobile?

February 5, 2009

At Web Directions North ‘09, Rachel Hinman from Adaptive Path presented an inspiring session on the Mobile User Experience (further cementing my adoration for everything the Adaptive Path folks touch).
One comment that she made (slide 84, below) was that on the web we can annotate expectations. In accessibility, we’re explicitly told not to [...]

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Social Media Confession: I Hate Online Video

January 29, 2009

Yes, I know that as a good social media aficionado I should be following Gary Vaynerchuk (@GaryVee on twitter). He’s an Internet celebrity, largely as a result of his daily webcast about wine, and is recognized as a visionary in the arena of online marketing and social media.
I’ll never learn much from Gary directly, [...]

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