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”But you don’t have to have an M.B.A. to understand that refusing to compromise on design, for any reason, can lead to fantastic commercial success. Look at Apple, Google, Sonos, R.I.M. (makers of the BlackBerry), or (in its glory days) Palm.”

Assistive or adaptive technology can bring back the individual’s employability at an acceptable evel. Unfortunately most people in the third world countries are not aware that assistive technology may become their real friend in assisting them in everyday

An excellent demonstration on how sensing technologies afford real time feedback on behavior, specifically one’s social network.

Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää, millä tavalla mobiililaitteilla voidaan tukea yhteisöllistä oppimista ja tiedonrakentamista avoimessa oppimisympäristössä, sekä kehittää mobiilisti tuettua yhteisöllisen oppimisen pedagogista mallia.

Online lies about location, context, intent, identity are all possible, sometimes even required. Provocative question: are ICTs and applications and services succeeding in part because they facilitate our lying ways?

You never guess who sent me this link. :-)

Mozilla Firefox’s average visit share in Europe, after a stabilization phase, grows again in December 2007 in order to reach 28%.

Let’s play a game: what if we were given the chance to see what the world (or at least the internet) would be like without design, usability, or SEO?

kiwanja.net provides free consultancy, workshops and advice to all grassroots non-profits interested in exploring the social and environmental potential of mobile in their work.

Navigation is often a key output of IA, but it is just the tip of the iceberg. IA starts much earlier and goes much deeper than this. Attempting to design the navigation without going through the whole process is like working in a vacuum.

A vast amount of links to how-to articles, worksheets, and samples that assist you in performing the various tasks in the process of designing and developing information.

”Responsible mobile use is the key to better social relations. We need to look carefully at our current use of mobile phones and find ways of being more considerate of others at work as well as at home, the coffee shop, the movies and theatre.”

At the moment, phone manufacturers give us little idea of what to expect. But people still read a lot of information into signal bars. It’s not unusual to hear people boast ”I’ve got five bars” when a friend struggles to connect.

The Berlin International Design Center, certification institution TUV Nord and the German Design Council have developed a quality label for universal design.

Backgrounds, t-shirts, stuff for web nerds.

”This should be more like Google.” I certainly have heard that one before.

This breakdown of users very useful when considering what sorts of social computing tools you may need to deliver. It will not only help with identifying functional requirements, but also help with creating your marketing strategy for their delivery.

”Gmail has proved a delight in every respect. A couple of junk emails get through. For some reason, these are usually for a lottery.”

An in-depth study of the design processes used in eleven global brands gives real insights into the way design operates in these firms, and delivers usable lessons for all designers and managers.

Puoluepoliittisesti en välttämättä ole samaa mieltä, mutta muutenhan tämä on täyttä asiaa.

When confronted with a business structure and terminology only relevant to the organisation’s staff, users are often left quite lost. Sometimes this is deliberate, but more often, this is accidental.

With its 133 pages, this is probably the longest newsletter I’ve even seen. And it is published every month! Loads of stuff about accessibility for you to read.

Good communication technique might not completely eliminate the low-level conflict that can dominate some virtual projects, but it can help minimize the pain. Here, then, are some strategies for dealing with conflict on virtual teams.

Brands introduce themselves to people much in the same way that people introduce themselves to people. This is especially true for Web sites: the brand online is the same as a “self,” and must manage its impression just as people do.

Where do old cell phones and mobile devices go when you recycle them? Why should you recycle them?

As the Flickr grumbling demonstrates, Microsoft’s own image as the guy who sucks all the life out of the party is going to continue to hurt it as the online world gets more and more social.

”By not only listing different ways of solving common design problems, but also rationalizing about how, when, and why such solutions should be used, it is the goal to create a tool that will help end feature debates.”

It is estimated that just one in five people with phones that are able to connect to the net actually do. But the iPhone, however, is having a profound effect on the willingness of its users to go online.

Vuoden tärkeitä suuntauksia ovat isot värinäytöt, animaatiot sekä hauskat, kauniit ja humoristiset toiminnot. Ja niin edelleen.

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LeMill is a web community for finding, authoring and sharing learning resources. It is not LMS. LeMill is a web site engine to author and share learning resources. All content in LeMill server are free/libre/open for all web users.

”Expect the adoption of social networking solutions for business to accelerate dramatically in 2008 with many firms looking for internal social networking solutions,” predicts the research firm.