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I moved my new blog to http://hij2mc.wordpress.com/.(hij2mc = how I jump to my conclusions, I continue the name of the blog) I used Blogger some time but changed to Wordpress as it offers better ways to organize your content. The RSS Feed for my blog is: https://hij2mc.wordpress.com/feed On some readers, like RSS Bandit, you have to uncheck ...

This night I set up a new weblog, How I jump to my conclusions with Blogger at Blogspot.com, since I'm switching from my current employer Infosupport to Getronics PinkRoccade. Unfortunately, Getronics apparently does not (yet?) have a company blogsite. I really enjoyed blogging at Infosupport and heard that my (mostly) non-technical posts ...

Some variants on the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People from Stephen R. Covey   From Stephen R. Covey self: Seven Habits Revisited: Seven Unique Human Endowments   If you run short of time: Seven Habits Condensed Summaries     From Technicat: Seven Habits of Highly Effective Programmers Seven Habits of ...

Forget everything you learned the last 20 years and get back on track.   Waterfall 2006 - International Conference on Sequential Development   Including valuable tutorials from Martin, Cockburn, Beck, Kroll, Kern and many others. Read about the WUP!   (Tip from Marike)    

Jared M. Spool and Christine Perfetti catalogued the patterns they saw when they watched users search for their desired content. They concluded there are essentially 8 Types of Navigation Pages a user can run into, when searching content-rich sites:   1. Content Pages 2. Galleries 3. Departments 4. Stores 5. Gallery-level Search ...

Nice new buzzwords and a post worth reading. The Kick Ass Curve describes the curve people go through with new products and services starting from the point where 'it sucks' (Suck Threshold ) to the point where people become passionate (Passion Threshold ). The better of two products is the one that allows you to do challenging ...

Value Centered Design recognizes that the point of our work is to generate value. And not just bottom line cost savings, or top line sales through new products. True value comes at the intersection of business goals and human needs: return on investment (ROI) and return on experience (ROE, or as one respondend suggested: ROX). ((McMullin ...

Resources For Web Design

“Why doesn’t this work right? What am I supposed to do with this now?'' World Usability Day , November 3, 2005, is for everyone who’s ever asked these questions.     Be sure to read The secret of making things work on BBC news. How usable is this sign:  

Many of the Office 12 UI decisions were influences by what was learned in collaboration with the usability and research team. Jensen Harris explains that it is more than just the two-way mirror.   Jensen Harris published on the subject before (Be willing to be wrong) on the design of ''the Ribbon'' and got lots of responses worth ...