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Agile Development and Testing: Unit or Montecarlo?

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. I’ve had a running debate with my colleague John McCaffrey on the question of testing. He is a big fan of unit testing and testing in general that examines the smallest possible units to be […]

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Spending time with Mozilla prototypes: Weave and Prism

I've spent a bunch of time testing two nascent Mozilla Labs projects recently and thought I'd share my experiences, one awful and one awesome. Failure: Mozilla Weave After casting aspersions on Mozilla's progress in the mobile space yesterday, I thought...

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Use a Task Flow to Show “How do I ___?”

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Although task flow diagrams (sometimes referred to as interaction flows, process flows or work flows) are a standard in most IA’s toolkits, it can be confusing for those unfamiliar with this particular tool to know when to start diagramming. When...

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jQuery Form and jQuery UI Tabs Works Well Together

I spent last week holed up writing part 4 of Ajax Overhaul, my series of articles for IBM developerWorks. Aimed squarely at Ajax beginners, the series shows how to progressively enhance Web 1.0 sites with jQuery and Ajax. Each installment...

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Use Case Diagrams

Human Factors & UX

Projects start off at the 60,000 foot level -- the client wants a widget that allows their users to do X, Y & Z -- and need to be brought down to a level of detail where coding can begin....

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Put on Your X-Ray Specs: Converting Web 1.0 to 2.0

I've blogged in the past about converting Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. There were and still are three options: The Christmas Tree Approach - decorate your existing Web 1.0 application with lots of snazzy Ajax widgets. It's quick, but it's...

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Radiant CMS: Some tradeoffs, but they're worth it

We're continuing to iterate on our redesign of the Pathfinder website using Radiant CMS, which I posted about last month. Now that we actually have IA and design artifacts and content for the new site, I'm getting more intimately acquainted...

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Top 15 music APIs to power your next mashup

Music and the web have a long history, from Napster through the iTunes Store to the MP3 blogs of today. For Web 2.0 hackers, however, the availability of public APIs proves pretty hit or miss...

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Agile User Experience: If you have a silo, knock it down

Human Factors & UX

In many development processes, team members are organized by functional group. A project might have a team of developers building the code, and then down the hall or across the globe, a separate team of designers working on the visual...

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Agile UX: If You Don't Have A User, Invent One

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Following up on [Brian's point][brian]... A customer proxy of one kind or another is also important in integrating Agile practices with User Eexperience Design. One of the long standing issues in combine Agile development with User Experience Design is just...

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Agile R&D: If you don't have a client, invent one

I'm working on an internal project at Pathfinder: a cool little Rails app originally developed by one team and now being dusted off and extended by another team. Because this is an R&D project, specifications are a little vague. My...

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Stock Ticker Entry Fields and Usability

Interface design is about balance and accommodation. One of the most important balancing acts an interface must play is in accommodating the diverging expectations of the novice and the expert user. The expert knows what he wants to do, and...

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