By aprilholle | accessibility, general observation, links of the week, project management, things to do
Welcome to the first week of LINKS OF THE WEEK! I come across some great informative and humorous content online, and I want to share that.. with all of you. Enjoy! Wonderful cartoon explaining the communication struggle in development of applications. Happy Webbies is like Happy Bunny for web geeks. Check out the animated talking
Tags: account management, communication, design, development-time, external-links, gameing subculture, gaming, Happy-Webbies, happy_bunny, informative content, interesting links, links, online communities, online subculture, project management, project-process, screen readers, ux, viral marketing, web accessibility
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By aprilholle | things to do
Celebrate web standards by donning a blue beanie Monday, November 25 and while you’re at it, take a picture and post it to the flickr group. This event was brainstormed by Facebook group formed around Designing With Web Standards. The book was written by Jeffrey Zeldman who is well known for his and talks around
Tags: Blue-Beanie-Day, compliant-web-design, cross-browser, cross-browser-compliance, designing-websites, Designing-with-Web-Standards, experience-design, Facebook, Facebook-groups, Flickr, Flickr-group, good-website-design, great-websites, IE-6-compliance, Jeffrey-Zeldman, quality-assurance, safari-compliance, Social-Networking, social-networks, South-by-Southwest, standards-compliance, standards-compliant, things to do, usability, usable-design, user experience, user-friendly, user-interaction, ux, ux-design, web-community, Web-Design, web-design-communities, web-design-community, web-design-groups, web-event, web-events, web-groups, web-site-design, web-standard-groups, web-standards
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By aprilholle | art forms, new idea!, user experience
So I got a recommendation from Erin Enriquez at Terralever to take up watching the new internet series Quarterlife. The premise is basically this intern writer decides to take up video blogging about her two roomates and the two guys that live across the courtyard whom are all friends. It’s a pretty decent concept, but
Tags: @media, art forms, artistic-expression, artistic-work, blogging, creative-links, creatives, internet-series, internet-stars, media-types, new idea!, print-and-web, print-media, Quarterlife, sitcom, television, television-media, television-programs, usability, usable-design, user experience, user-friendly, user-interaction, ux, ux-design, video-blogging, video-mashing, video-series, viral marketing, viral-activity, viral-video, viral-videos, web-broadcast, web-community, web-media, web-tv, web-video
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By aprilholle | flash, general observation, new technologies, user experience
Call me a girl who loves money, but I think the security features in all the new American currency are fascinating. The different levels of complexity of design, the material the dollars are made out of, the metallic inks, the list goes on. Anyhow, I was reading The New Old Five Dollar Bill article over
Tags: A-Brief-Message, American-currency, currency-security, financial-security, five-dollar-bill, flash, flash-application, general observation, graphic-design, interactive-flash, money, money-design, new technologies, new-dollar-bills, security-features, usability, usable-design, user experience, user-friendly, ux, ux-design
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By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, user experience
I came across a great article this morning that discusses how to make your links stand out while not making them a pain in the ass to use. Links are great assets that can increase the value of your content by providing supporting material for your discussion and satelliting your topic to similar sites throughout
Tags: assets, external-links, how-to-link-to-sites, hyperlinks, internal-links, links, quality-assurance, similar-sites, supporting-material, usability, usable-design, user experience, user-friendly, ux, ux-design, w3c, web-site-design, XHTML, XHTML/CSS
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By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, user experience
I subscribe to the Adaptive Path newsletter, and I suggest you do as well if you’re interested in user experience in the slightest. I’ve continously enjoyed the articles they write regarding users and how to keep them around. The most recent article was The Long Wow by Brandon Schauer, an experience design director for Adaptive
Tags: Adaptive-Path, advertising & marketing, brand-identity, branding, Brandon-Schauer, business, client-relations, client-relationships, clients, closing-deals, customer-loyalty, discount-cards, experience-design, Frys, great-websites, Long-Wow, loyalty-programs, membership-card, Safeway, usability, usable-design, user experience, user-friendly, ux, ux-design
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By aprilholle | project management, speaker reviews, user experience
“I don’t want a Jack of All Trades, Master of None. I want “T-Shaped People”, People who have a broad understanding of the whole field (the horizontal part of the T) but then have deep understanding and perspective in one discipline in particular ( the vertical part of the T).”
Tags: Bill-Buxton, broad-technical-understanding, design, microsoft-research, project management, speaker reviews, t-shaped-people, usability, usable-design, user experience, user-friendly, ux, ux-design, Web-Design, web-site-design
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