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Archive for January, 2013

Microsoft Launches modern.ie to Help You Write Better Code

Thursday, Microsoft launched modern.ie, a site with tools to help developers write better code. The tool is really a set of three different components. The first part of the tool is a subscription to BrowserStack, allowing you to test your code on a multitude of combinations of Web browsers and operating systems. This subscription is […]

Blackberry z10. Great Specs, But What About the UX?

From the first time I picked up an iPhone, I found the interface intuitive and easy to use. The user experience fit my paradigm for how I would expect to interact with the device, even though I had not interacted with it before that day. Of course, it’s been a few years since that day […]

App Trendspotting: Vine

The history of the next big thing in digital goes back to the earliest days of the consumer Internet and probably started with the denizens of South Park in San Francisco. In the early to mid-90s a discussion thread on The Well, an underground BBS located on a houseboat in Sausalito, gave rise to Wired […]

Rethinking the Customer Journey in a Social World Infographics

Read a great article this week by Mark Fidelman about the customer journey in the social world (infographic). As you all know, SOCIAL (internal business related social in particular) is one of the hottest topics in the CRM space and will be for all of 2013. With Microsoft’s purchase last year of Yammer, more and […]

Web Analytics Checkup: What to look for

I generally have a hard time explaining what I do to people outside my business circles.  Many family and friends know I do “computer stuff.”  When I finally make it click for them using simple terms.  I have to tell them “I make your website show up in Google more often” or “I can tell […]

Using CSS3 Structural Pseudo-Classes to Format Tables

When the task calls for it and its appropriate, we need to use tables to display tabular data. When formatting these tables, we routinely need to do things like style alternate rows to enhance the user’s ability to quickly identify the data in those rows. In the past this was commonly done with a little […]

Facebook Graph Search. A tool to create or destroy?

Facebook’s new Graph Search is a very interesting tool that can be used to dive into the Facebook data that is publicly available. It can also make it ridiculously easy to dig up embarrassing facts you’ve forgotten you’ve even said about yourself. So how will you use this new tool? Will you use it to connect with new people […]

Chatter Answers taking gamification to the next level

Who doesn’t want to make work more fun? Whether it’s for your customers, your employees, or your partners, making their online interactions with your company more engaging, interesting, and rewarding, can pay huge dividends in revenue and retention. If you’re a Service Cloud customer – you now get the Chatter Answers product for free.  That’s great […]

Backend As A Service

Last summer I worked on an Android prototype as part of a proposal to a major healthcare organization.  In addition to myself, there was a corresponding group that building the same application within iOS.  The objective was to demonstrate our capabilities in building native mobile applications on the two leading mobile platforms.  The core functionality […]

Finding Inspiration

Inspiration sometimes sneaks up on you. That’s what happened to me when I took my son to see Wreck-It Ralph, and prior to the movie the Disney Short “Paperman” was shown. I cannot properly expresses how amazing the creative genius of this short is, and it’s great to see that it was recently nominated for […]

A UI Redesign of the US Electronic Medical Records System

The US Electronic Medical Records System (EMS) contains a lot of information. The problem with the current system is that the data isn’t presented in a way that makes it actionable. In other words, the user interface needs a revamp to present a better user experience. Last November a design challenged was proposed by the […]

We want our users to use….

This statement comes up a lot during the initial phases of a design project. On the outside I nod my head, note down the feature or interaction that is being described, but on the inside I’m wondering, “Does your user want to do that?” Frankly, the question I’m thinking about is way more interesting than […]

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