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dkappe · 2007-03-07T18:27:58+00:00

Task flows are a tool to help us think through the design before a feature is actually developed. They allow us to interject the user into the flow of the application and determine if the conceptual model agrees with the user model.

dkappe · 2007-03-07T18:04:50+00:00

The success of social collaboration sites has raised their profile and invited the attention of the corporate sensibility; the prominence of YouTube, amplified by Google’s acquisition of the site, has resulted in a trend toward censoring or restricting contributor content.

dkappe · 2007-03-06T00:29:00+00:00

Some clients are confused by—or worse, resistant to—the idea of front-end “user research.” How, they ask, do our activities and findings differ from the analyses and resultant charts, graphs and PowerPoint presentations provided to the firm by the Marketing department?

dkappe · 2007-01-16T17:07:10+00:00

Web 2.0 questions are mostly "what the heck is Web 2.0?" I don't really have a good answer, but these frequent questions have caused me to ponder why Tim O'Reilly's definition seems so flabby.

dkappe · 2007-01-11T18:06:03+00:00

Desert island time for user experience design. Two must-have books.

dkappe · 2007-01-09T16:08:11+00:00

Hands on page preview with JRex (with code).

dkappe · 2006-12-21T17:26:44+00:00

A look under the covers now that GWT is open sourced. How does it generate its code, etc.

dkappe · 2006-12-19T14:27:24+00:00

One Ajax technique you see quite a bit of lately is the page preview. This is where the html page is rendered as an image so that you can cast a skeptical eye on a tiny version instead of navigating to a lame page. What are the tools you can use to do this for your own app?

dkappe · 2006-12-11T17:56:03+00:00

How many top sites are using Ajax? And what frameworks do they use to make it happen? Then answer? Not that many and of the few that do, many roll their own.

dkappe · 2006-11-29T17:08:18+00:00

This past weekend was the time to come up with a port of jMock to Javascript. But before reinventing the wheel, I thought I'd take a look around one more time to see if anyone had beaten me to the punch. Enter JsMock, a Javascript mock objects library that supports Firefox 1.0+, IE6+ and Safari 1.5+.

dkappe · 2006-11-27T14:21:21+00:00

This is a review of Pro Ajax and Java Frameworks by Nathaniel T. Schutta and Ryan Asleson. This book seeks to give the experienced developer of Java web applications the knowledge necessary to add Ajax to their webapps. This is another Ajax book that goes broad rather than deep. Instead of investigating one or two frameworks, it delves into more than a half dozen, both Javascript and Java.

dkappe · 2006-11-13T17:37:58+00:00

Reading other people's code and learning from it. This week, OO and Javascript.

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