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Design Specification Roadmap
There is always something nice about creating milestones and to-do lists in Basecamp, when you're not quite sure what to do next with the incoming design specifications. In truth, of course, defining...
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Get Fed
Its sometimes the small additions to a web design framework that make a difference. Well, to me they do. As I went through the weekly process of trying out the latest feed readers the other day, just...
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MySQL on sun.com
Although he refers to his 'cage' rather often, this vodcast/podcast from the senior engineering director for sun.com, Will Snow, is a great insight into the way MySQL is working on sun.com today, and...
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PicLens for flickr
I was pointed to this by one of my excellent flickr contacts. If you've ever struggled through multiple pages of photo pools or even your own photostream looking for that particular image, or just to...
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Unified Web Feedback
If you really want to let us know what you think, there's any number of ways you can let us know, but these days, we should expect you to chose the web as your primary channel. In other words, we...
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Sun.com Works of Art
Not my words. Those good folks at siteIQ conducted a regular, in-depth, web site best practice review of sun.com towards the end of last year, and there were some great highlights. There were plenty of...
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Creative Suite: Au Revoir, Bonjour
As all good designers know these, you need lots and lots and lots and lots of hardware and software to do your job properly. I first started using Adobe Photoshop professionally at version 2.5, which I...
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Sun.com for SMBs
We've got a new place for Small and Medium Businesses on sun.com. Take a look. It's called "Sun's Place for Small and Medium Businesses". And guess what. It's full of stuff for Small and Medium...
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IETab for XHTML Traps
You'd think I would check. First rule of web design and all that. I mean, we extensively test our web design components against all the platform and browser combinations out there, and Andrew and Greg...
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The IA Has Landed
Its been a good long while since Martin left us to ramp up the customer experience over at Cisco, and then our über information architect, Jennifer, jumped ship for a measly directorship. Since then,...
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Project Overlap
I know you just love it when you find out your project overlaps with about 4 other projects doing kind of the same thing, but from a different place. That just happens in large-scale organizations,...
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Web Prototyping with NetBeans
For the best Ajax-ready environment to support rapid development, its got to be NetBeans 6.0. I think. I mean, I've not actually used it yet, but I do have a need to build some prototypes for dynamic...
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You Know, Like CNET
Before you even get to the point where you ask 'what is your content?', there's an apparent understanding that you need to work out how it surfaces all over your site. Since the very early days of...
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The Return of the Design Comic
They've never really been away, but there's a number of places I've been recently where they'd tell the story just perfectly, so I recently dug out all the old slides I had, and got any stuff I was...
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Ad Server Finger Drumming
It is quite possibly a consequence of my patience becoming inversely proportional to my age, but recently, waiting for ad servers to respond in order to complete loading a page is really ticking me...
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Content Channels
First of all, full marks for getting high page rankings and integrating all sorts of lovely flash advertising and web 2.0 features like the google user pop-in, user comments and article sharing, plus...
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Bring Me A Taxonomy
Praise be for the sight of our erstwhile über data architect, pontificating on the nature of content engineering strategies and all things modelled. It's been far too long since Kristen has regailed us...
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Second Life Emptiness
I had made a mental, not physical, note to myself to attend the online knees-up that was yesterday's Sun employee event in Second Life. Of course, I was extraordinarily busy doing web prototype updates...
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We Sell Servers
You know that, of course, but how do you buy our servers? For as long as I can remember, and in line with how we structure our organization, we've presented our product lines on the web by the product...
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Sharing Your Opinion
I just had a call with Ben, Mr Usability, regarding some work we need to collaborate on as part of our web feedback program. We've been looking into the user experience across our feedback systems on...
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itv.com
Watching TV on a computer is a bit like playing World of Warcraft on a phone - you probably can, but it's a bit rubbish. There are some rather nice players out there right now, like the BBC iPlayer,...
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Got Server Content?
You do? Where shall we put that then? No, I mean where shall we put it so people can actually see it?There's a ton of great stuff out there about Sun products, and it changes all the time. The trouble...
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Faces to Voices
Its been a long time since I've been out to Colorado to get together with the rest of the web experience design team, so its a great pleasure to be attending our all-hands event this week. There's a...
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Finding Storage
Sounds like it should be a film with Tom Hanks and an emotionally challenged Tupperware box. It is, in fact, the long-awaited solution to one of our common web problems. Whether you call it filtered...
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ihavea Player
Following the rampant success of the BBC iPlayer, ITV has done what it does best, and nicked it. Ok, so the implementation is different, as are the system requirements, oh, and the reach, ah, and the...
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use it, or not
Hang on, is this still active? Oh dear.It occurred to me while reading Paul Boag's 10 things a web designer would never tell you, that there are a number of things I've never told you. They were mainly...
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Articulating Prudence
You know that nagging feeling you have in the back of your mind that you feel you haven't quite explained to those you care for that the internet is, in fact, a omnipresent blood-sucking privacy leech...
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Awevangelizing
When you've got something you really want to say, but really want to say well, what is your best method for getting that message across, so that it plants a wow seed in the minds of your audience? You...
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Finding Servers
Hot, well, warm on the heels of our storage finder, we have recently deployed the new server finder, which replaced a previous incantation of finding functionality which was held together by hello...
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