Search for writing tagged “usability”
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Simplifying TV
19 March 2010
The recent write up of Avner Ronan’s chat with Mark Cuban has pushed me to shine up and publish this article. I’m coming at it from the perspective of a frustrated user and ‘consumer’, but my focus is on the equipment used to view the TV & movies that I watch. Obviously there are huge infrastructure and international challenges in the way that TV is currently distributed and that is probably another article, this is more a device ‘wishing’ piece.More
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Design Fast Websites, Nicole Sullivan
25 May 2009
Nicole Sullivan is a Performance Engineer & International Evangelist at Yahoo, her work involves optimising and streamlining performance on large scale websites from a front-end perspective. Here’s another useful note session from an content-packed video.More
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When Websites Go Wrong, Flash
15 May 2009
Now I’ll freely admit that as a Web Standards based developer I’m meant to just hate flash. I don’t though. In talented hands it is an incredible tool for exploring human computer interaction and also delivery of rich content.More
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Some Textpattern .htaccess Goodness
4 May 2009
One of my key things for giving a site the best SEO I can is to reduce the number of URLs that point to the same content. Plus it also makes my mint stats much clearer.More
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When Websites Go Wrong, The Little Things
30 April 2009
I gave a talk at the April 2009 WebSG Meetup Singapore last night. A really great meetup, met lots of interesting people and heard a fascinating talk from Jon Petersen, a self styled location geek who’s new restaurant phone application buUuk seems to be a fascinating project.More
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Using Silverback To Screencast
15 October 2008
I’ve had a copy of Silverback sat on my hard disk for a while, but given I’m concentrating on my own project and a few very small design jobs for local companies with limited budgets, I haven’t really had cause to use it.More