Sep 16th 09
Help, we’re drowning in wireframing apps!
Back in the 1990s, when wireframing was a niche activity, you were pretty much limited to Visio or Illustrator. Nowadays there are a huge number of alternatives. If you want an online app, you can choose from Balsamiq, Just in Mind, iPlots, iZotz, ForeUI, Pidoco, Mockup screens, Wireframe sketcher, Gliffy, Project Draw, Creately, Napkee among zillions of others. Offline the situation is equally messy,...
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Sep 2nd 09
show-me: Water Consumption in the Shower at a Glance
The scientific paper “show-me”: Water Consumption at a Glance to Promote Water Conservation in the Shower [acm.org, ACM members only] aims to encourage sustainable behavior by visualizing the actual water consumption when and where it matters: during and immediately in the vicinity of the showering itself.
The researchers built a prototype to study the potential of such a feedback device...
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Aug 9th 09
Interview: Amy Buckner on Mobile Usability
With mobile devices being used to perform an ever increasing number of functions and tasks, mobile Usability has never before been as critical as it is today. Jakob Nielson recently posted an article about mobile Usability and concluded that there is a lot of room for improvement.
Enter Amy Buckner, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of AnswerLab, a User Experience research company based out of San Francisco....
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Aug 9th 09
Follow-ups: 07-10-2009
Follow-ups for Hardware Becomes Software
“Apple fanboys might still be drooling from the iPhone 3Gs announcement, but I bet they never saw this coming: an electric superbike with an iPhone for all its instrumentation.” – Electric Superbike Uses iPhone For Its Dashboard, Gas 2.0 (thanks Vincent)
“Now the smartphone is beginning to displace yet another stand-alone device — the GPS receiver...
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Aug 9th 09
New Program: Web App Summit 2009
We’re very excited about the 2009 Web App Summit, in Newport Beach, CA for April 19-22, 2009. This will be the must attend event for anyone building web applications!
We’re planning on launching the full site in January, but we wanted you to have a sneak peak at the great program we’ve put together. This year’s Summit is really exceptional and we think you’ll want to be...
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Patrick is an accomplished Sr. User Interface Developer and Architect specializing in Web Applications, Web 2.0 and eLearning with extensive experience in the full life cycle of the software design process including project planning, design, testing, client communications, training, de-bugging, implementation and maintenance. His book, Modern Ui, Social Usability for Web 2.0 and Beyond is in production and will be available at Barnes and Noble, Borders, Amazon as well as many other fine retailers in Winter 2009-2010.
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