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There are many times when you want to be keeping an eye on your image as things are adjusted, rather than looking from dialogue box setting field to image to setting to image yadda yadda yadda and back again-we are talking rsi on your eyes…not healthy for any budding Photoshop Ninja! (more[...]

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Just like last year this site has gone Pink for October. I’d like to introduce you to Cherry the new flavour for this blog. With Cherry things around here have changed a fair bit. This flavour was a long time coming and I haven’t updated the site with my usual flavour a season until this[...]

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IANAD… I am not a designer. But I do think I am capable as a user-interface designer. The former involves making pretty pictures and creating an emotional user experience. The latter involves making usable interfaces and creating an enjoyable user experiences. Subtle differences that mean a wh[...]

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In writing these monthly summaries, I’ve mentioned before that I have come to understand how feeble the human brain is. Despite its uniqueness in complex, machine-like terms, it is truly pitiful at retaining information, or at least recalling it. I have always had an excellent memory, but even my [...]

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Yesterday evening Seth Godin wrote a very short (and very meaningless) post titled, CSS. While the post was surly full of good intention, it is the absolute worst thing your boss could read; or the most annoying thing. It promotes ignorance within the workplace and gives justification to those yet t[...]

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Airline sacrifices goats to appease sky god - “Officials at Nepal’s state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft…” Now we know who got the goat. Analysis: UK gun crim[...]

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If you were sitting at a desk wanting to become a naturalized citizen of the US could you pass the official test? [...]

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We have been using and seeing advantages of OpenID. It has seen its share of criticism, and a lot of it comes from the fact that OpenID is about identification, it is not about authorization. As a natural succession, we are about to see something that will assist this - oAuth. In fact, Chris Messina[...]

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“If the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the Industrial Designer has failed.” Henry Dreyfuss, Designing for People, 1955 Cognitive friction is one thing, and generally a result rather than a deliberate strategy; process friction is so[...]

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The home page plays a very important role in most websites. It’s the few seconds that you have to grab that users’ attention to keep them on the site. This is why much thought needs to be put into the design. The best way to effectively plan out the home page design is to save it until l[...]

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