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Bradley Horowitz: Lowering Barriers to Particpation

17. August 2006

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Bradley Horowitz, the VP Product Strategy for Yahoo, gave a great presentation on some of the latest technology implementations going on at Yahoo. While the topic was ‘Lowering Barriers to Participation’, I found the session more general. Good Take-Aways: Yahoo is doing Agile and they have their own variant called YAgile. Very cool and I heard [...]

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UX 2006 Day one

14. August 2006

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Day 1 of Adaptive Path User Experience week is underway and so far my ‘User Experience’ has been very good. The sessions have varied from very abstract to tangible items to take away. A lot of the folks that I’ve met are looking for tangible pieces to take back and implement.

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Functioning Form - Interface Design Skill-set Diagram

22. July 2006

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Great post that really resonates with me as a product manager. The only element that I don’t cover is the visual design but I think most folks would appreciate that. In my role it’s critical to understand the business case, technologies for implementations, information architecture, information design and how the users will interact with [...]

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What I’m Reading: Universal Principles of Design

25. June 2006

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I’ve started reading Universal Principles of Design and am thoroughly impressed. The book provides a great overview of design principles with application. For those of us in the web business who don’t have the traditional design background or missed the class, this is a great reference of concepts to consider when developing user interfaces [...]

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Good ALA Article: Planning Manpower on a Web Team

22. June 2006

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Interesting article on A List Apart on how to plan for a web team. While it peanut-butters the roles, it certainly is a good discussion starter A List Apart: Articles: How to Plan Manpower on a Web Team

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Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization - Boxes and Arrows

19. March 2006

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Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization - Boxes and Arrows

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Four Modes of Seeking Information and How to Design for Them - Boxes and Arrows

16. March 2006

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Interesting article about segmenting users into their search mode. Good food for thought as ’search’ is often a box that is just checked Four Modes of Seeking Information and How to Design for Them - Boxes and Arrows

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