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Pair Programming with VNC

A little Agile to go with the Ajax... My four commandments of Agile Development are: Short iterations Pair programming Test driven development Continuous improvement (sprint reviews, etc.) I have strong opinions about continuous integration and related agile practices, but those...

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What is UxD?

Human Factors & UX

A couple of weeks ago a sales presentation was being prepared in our New York office; it was primarily focussed on the problem at hand, but the presenter wanted to include a single slide as a cue to talk about...

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A Sequence Diagram for Scriptaculous

In reverse engineering the Scriptaculous into GWTaculous, I've done a bit of spelunking and produced a few artifacts to explain Scriptaculous to myself. I thought I'd share one of them -- a sequence diagram for Effects -- in the hopes...

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Writing Technical Requirements: The First Commandment

Business Analysts seem to come from two areas: Developers who want to be Writers Writers who want to be Developers Coming from the second group myself, I've often been asked to help neophyte writers improve their skills. Trading writing tips...

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36 GWT Tutorials

While the excellent GWT in Action was released last month, there are lots of people that want to get their feet wet before plunking down $50 for a book. To that end, I've pulled together all of the...

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Usability Testing Techniques

Too often, usability testing is judged to be a “nice-to-have,” but dispensable within the time and budget constraints of a full design and development project. This activity is often incorrectly perceived as being solely a formalized study that is time...

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Why User Research Matters

What if you brought in users to test your application and the final result was one big collective yawn. It’s not that the product wasn’t usable -- oh, maybe some minor tweaks to the presentation layer could improve things, but...

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The Zeigarnik Effect in GUI Design

Human Factors & UX

The Zeigarnik effect suggests people remember incomplete or interrupted things better than completed things. It’s human nature to want to complete a task or hear the end of a story ...

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