Posted in delicious on 24 September, 2007 | No Comments »
Filling Much Needed Holes (Don Norman)
This column from Don Norman focuses on ethnographic research and ‘filling the void’. He puts question marks towards this approach, does it really work? The last paragraph hints on what does make products valuable and succesful.
(tags: innovation research market customer product design)
Intel Mash Maker
Intel is also jumping on the bandwagon [...]
Posted in delicious on 15 September, 2007 | No Comments »
rst2a - reStructuredText to Anything
Interesting. This site makes it possible to read and edit plaintext and still put out nice html or pdf files. Too bad this works only if you input the documents at this site, would be nice if it integrated with other sites like mediawiki, googledocs, etc.
(tags: documents web2.0 css style design [...]
Posted in delicious on 13 September, 2007 | No Comments »
Working with the YUI DataTable Control (Yahoo! User Interface Blog)
The YUI is such a great tool for developing websites, especially the part where I do not have to worry about different browsers is great. This article gives an excellent overview of the power of the YUI DataTable. Also goes into some JSON tricks
(tags: yui webdev [...]
Posted in delicious on 12 September, 2007 | No Comments »
Automation and accessibility (Jon Udell)
Interesting write up about CoScripter. Compares different ways of scripting existing applications, with a distinction between ’semantic engine scripting’ and ’semantic UI scripting’. Point made is that the second (thus CoScripter) is closer to the user.
(tags: automation enduser coscripter jonudell automagic)
Evolving our Wiki (The Workplace Blog)
It is interesting to read how [...]
Posted in delicious on 7 September, 2007 | No Comments »
CoScripter (IBM)
I have been waiting for this to get online for some time. Previously it was called koala. It let’s you record macros for the web. Thus allowing you to script or automate walking through a number of pages. So similar to greasemonkey but closer to the user.
(tags: automatic automation firefox greasemonkey ibm macro extension [...]
Posted in delicious on 6 September, 2007 | No Comments »
SharePoint, IronPython, and another lesson in the virtue of laziness (Jon Udell)
Haven’t done much with SharePoint yet, but these code snippets seem promising to hack together something with it.
(tags: sharepoint ironpython python webservices examples jonudell)
Posted in Uncategorized on 4 September, 2007 | No Comments »
Design Decisions: Highrise import (37signals)
Insightful article on how to listen to customers. From an engineer’s perspective something like ‘import function’ can get easily translated to CSV import. However, what are the customers really asking?!
(tags: customers interaction design usability requirements)
