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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Coats aren’t miscellaneous, and the future of online store personalization
In Everything is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger’s thesis is that digital objects aren’t stuck with one type of organization. Instead of an item being on one particular shelf in a given store, items can be found by many different characteristics. Last … Continue reading
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Pay-what-you-want and a 4% conversion rate
There are advantages to being famous. Not many bands can challenge the whole worldview of the music industry with one act. Radiohead is releasing their new album in a rather unusual way: as a digital download for which fans can … Continue reading
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AEAChicago2007 – “Dealing With the Both of You” by Jim Coudal
Back to main AEAChicago2007 post located a mile and a half directly east of here colocated with 37Signals create names and identities, ad campaigns, short files, tv commercials, package design for their own businesses and for others many people have … Continue reading
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AEAChicago2007 – “Selling Design” by Jeffrey Zeldman
Back to main AEAChicago2007 post This presentation was otherwise known as “how fast can you type?” was in advertising for 15 years before got into the web (musician, filmmaker, etc.) got into the web so he could work in his … Continue reading
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AEAChicago2007 – “The State of CSS in an IE7 World” by Eric Meyer
Back to main AEAChicago2007 post the 800 pound gorilla is awake again! (King Kong pic) IE was dead, rolled into the operating system, but now it’s back “if it steps on me, I’m going to be a small raspberry stain.” … Continue reading
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AEAChicago2007 – “Accessibility: Lost in Translation” by Derek Featherstone
Back to main AEAChicago2007 post Derek Featherstone’s post about his presentation ironfeathers.ca (just did triathlon, Ironman) icanhaz.com/accessibility (new tinyurl competitor) developers actually creating the site from its design often have checklist syndrome “here’s what you need to do to make … Continue reading
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AEAChicago2007 – “Best Practices for Form Design” by Luke Wroblewski
Back to main AEAChicago2007 post Luke Wroblewski’s post about his presentation designs web applications – eleven years of designing a lot of forms online shopping experience is browsing until you find what you want, then a form so forms stand … Continue reading
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AEAChicago2007 – “Be Pure. Be Vigilant. Behave.” by Jeremy Keith
Back to main AEAChicago2007 post how to approach adding behavior to your site will give copies of his book, Bulletproof AJAX, away to good questions be pure: separation between HTML, CSS, JavaScript so progressive enhancement, beginning with a solid structure … Continue reading
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AEAChicago2007 – “Interface Design Juggling” by Dan Cederholm
Back to main AEAChicago2007 post International Jugglers Association was in next room to Webvisions 2006 color, typography, iconography, microformats, flexibility start by keeping one object in the air, then two, then…. special announcement: has a new site, toupeepal.com (Wig 2.0) … Continue reading
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AEAChicago2007 – “The Seven Lies of Information Architecture” by Liz Danzico
Back to main AEAChicago2007 post Liz Danzico’s post about her presentation Definitely the most controversial presentation. abriefmessage.com – with Khoi Vinh edits many people but project with Adobe was first time she’d been edited in a while Adobe’s design center … Continue reading
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