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Do web designers require an understanding of a software language to produce successful work? I don't think so, but what is important is that they understand the process of interaction a user of a web site goes through. And, even more importantly, that the software designers also understand that process. In a Venn diagram of understanding in a software development team, designers and coders should occupy the shared area.
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Read the entirety of Jeff Jarvis' What Would Google Do? online at the Harper Collins website.
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"There’s the stuff you want to do, and there’s the stuff you have to do before you can do what you want to do." Why apps should save your work, even if you haven't saved the document.
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The first graph here is actually a good example of how NOT to make an infographic. THe diagram offered does nothing to make the onformation easier to understand, and in fact muddies the water by using an ambiguous colour scheme and omitting a key, and also needlessly overlapping elements to fit into the given space. A simple spreadsheet would have done a better job here. The second part is much better — a standard graph of pending over time,
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Tenori-on style app for iPhone.
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More Tenori-on wackiness. I love a) Their name badges b) the podium dancers c) Paul O'Grady getting excited about having 'a rave'
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The Tenori-on, a wacky (what else?) Japanese musical gadget, makes everyone who uses it end up sounding like KT Tunstall gone a bit bonkers. And she did it all with an old-school effects pedal.
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Coxie reviews French film 'The Class'. Includes the phrase "hoist by his own confabulatory petard".
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Frankly stunning pictures of waves (although some of them are actually pictures of a man taking frankly stunning pictures of waves)
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Using the web browser, specifically its JavaScript engine, as a distributed system. Dunno about you, but the idea of anything 'opening a background tab to help you crunch a dataset or two' fills me with dread — my browser performance is bad enough as it is. And by 'my browser', I mean whatever browser I happen to be using at any given moment: they're all pretty inefficient, RAM-hungry and unpredictable.
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"To me, the question about companies like Twitter is: Do they fundamentally evolve as sort of a note phenomenon, or do they fundamentally evolve to have storage, revocation, identity, and all the other aspects that traditional email systems have? Or do email systems themselves broaden what they do to take on some of that characteristic?"
links for 2009-03-04 at paulcarvill.com, the home of Paul Carvill on the web
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Hi, I'm Paul Carvill and I'm a web developer. I am Head of Interface Development at LBi, Europe's largest digital agency.
I also like walking, cooking, Bollywood and rock 'n' roll.