Cooper, 1995
Alan Cooper, sometimes the "Father of Visual Basic," was an interaction designer before there were interaction designers. One of the first advocates of the user-centered approach, Cooper waxed lyrical...
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(A)PNG Loader
IE6 is in the ICU. Developers are still forced to accommodate the 8-year-old browser’s maverick rendering engine but we also find ourselves on the dawn of a new era that isn’t defined by a...
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I near the end of my tenure as Project Lead for the biggest corporate web site design project I’ve ever been a part of. We’re going to hit our date (no small miracle given that it was based on a...
View ArticleOn Letting it Emerge
One of the harder things I do in my corporate design gig is to try and maintain some wiggle room within UI and interaction projects. More often than not these put front end pieces to market...
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Bourbon, Burgers, Nylon and Beansprouts
Even at the time it debuted during my ostensible underage years I remember being impressed by the brilliance of Jim Beam’s ‘You always come back to basics’ ad campaign. The original,...
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A Corporate Writeup:Edward Tufte, Denver, 06.11.2010
Edward Tufte is Yale University Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science. Through his work in these domains and the four books he has published on the...
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UX Week Sound Bites 2010
For the second year running I’ve spent four late summer days at Adaptive Path’s UX Week in San Francisco. The 2009 edition saw me diligently posting day-by-day notes and accounts. This year I...
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A Form
iframe{display:none;height:650px !important;overflow:hidden-y} Almost all applicatons we interact with on the web are form driven. User-supplied data in; system conclusion out. To be sure, a...
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Venn and the Art of Overlap Maximization
A couple of years back I half-yawned my way through a UXWeek breakout session on digital strategy led by Henning Fischer from Adaptive Path. Root cause analysis featured. The group also...
View ArticleGet (Vertical) Rhythm
The grid-based design behind much of today’s web was revealed to me a few years back as I was serving as in-house Technical Lead for a major corporate redesign. My team worked with designers...
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