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  • Agile: the next step

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    Agile: the next step

    Thoughtworks' Jim Highsmith reflects on 10 years of Agile development

    12 Dec 2011

    By Jim Highsmith on
    Jim Highsmith, one of the co-authors of the Agile manifesto, reflects on 10 years of Agile development and examines how it can keep moving forward as a movement
  • Is Flash dead?

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    Is Flash dead?

    Aral Balkan welcomes Adobe's change of its mobile strategey

    7 Dec 2011

    Designer and developer Aral Balkan welcomes the change of Adobe's mobile strategy but argues that it's too late and that it spells the beginning of the end of Flash on the web
  • Social user experience with the Facebook Phone

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    Social user experience with the Facebook Phone

    UX designer Sachendra Yadav responds to the Facebook Phone rumours

    28 Nov 2011

    By Sachendra Yadav on | 4 comments
    As numerous rumours have cropped up around a Facebook Phone, UX designer Sachendra Yadav explains how it could create a mobile user experience tailored towards social activities
  • Why we created humans.txt

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    Why we created humans.txt

    The H-Team on why it's important to credit the people behind websites

    23 Nov 2011

    By Maria Macias on
    A Spanish group of web developers, Carlos Mańas, Maria Macias, Abel Cabans, Abel Sutilo and Juanjo Bernabeu, decided to launch an initiative to credit the people behind websites. Here they explain why they created humans.txt
  • Big mouth: Bubbleicious

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    Big mouth: Bubbleicious

    Your favourite dotcom bubble is being reborn

    21 Nov 2011

    By Gary Marshall on
    Groupon has become the biggest internet floatation since Google. Your favourite band’s back and your favourite dotcom bubble is being reborn. Gary Marshall is getting déjà vu
  • The new UX skills

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    The new UX skills

    The role of the user experience designer is changing, says Lee Allen

    17 Nov 2011

    The role of the user experience designer is changing. It’s becoming less about ‘owning’ experience and actual design and more about facilitation and collaboration, says Lee Allen of TH_NK
  • Getting feedback is crucial

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    Getting feedback is crucial

    Nobody likes asking for comments on their work, but it's critical

    10 Nov 2011

    By Jonathan Smiley on | 2 comments
    Hardly anyone likes asking for comments on their work, but the process is critical to career development and good results, says Jonathan Smiley
  • Commercialising a community

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    Commercialising a community

    Jamie Rumbelow wonders why more commmunities don't make money

    7 Nov 2011

    By Jamie Rumbelow on | 2 comments
    Teenage developer Jamie Rumbelow is all for open source but argues that creating a side business surrounding a community can actually help it grow and flourish
  • Crafting web design education

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    Crafting web design education

    Teaching web design should integrate theory and practice

    31 Oct 2011

    By Nicklas Persson and Chris Murphy on | 4 comments
    Teaching web design should integrate theory and practice, say Nicklas Persson and Christopher Murphy of the University of Ulster, aka ‘The Standardistas’
  • Does every business need a Facebook fan page?

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    Does every business need a Facebook fan page?

    James Yorke asks whether fan pages are always appropriate

    27 Oct 2011

    Businesses are falling over themselves to create Facebook pages that promote their products. James Yorke considers why some succeed while others fail
  • Devs and creatives, it's time to collaborate!

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    Devs and creatives, it's time to collaborate!

    Ben Winter calls for a return to the credo, ‘form follows function’

    24 Oct 2011

    By Ben Winter on | 1 comment
    In this new mobile, multi-platform digital age, Ben Winter calls for an end to the old battles between creatives and developers and a return to the credo, ‘form follows function’
  • The death and rebirth of customer experience

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    The death and rebirth of customer experience

    Des Traynor stresses the importance of good customer communication

    20 Oct 2011

    Des Traynor, COO of Intercom, stresses the importance of good customer communication and explains how to connect to your customers to turn them from idle browsers into active, loyal and passionate visitors
  • Stop banning Lorem Ipsum: a rebuttal

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    Stop banning Lorem Ipsum: a rebuttal

    Robert Hoekman, Jr, argues that Lorem Ipsum still has value

    17 Oct 2011

    By Robert Hoekman Jr on | 8 comments
    User experience specialist Robert Hoekman Jr argues that Latin placeholder text aka Lorem Ipsum is a tool that still has value to the design process. It's up to you to know when and why to use it
  • Mobile apps must die!

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    Mobile apps must die!

    Scott Jenson explains why the native apps model is holding us back

    10 Oct 2011

    Frog's creative director Scott Jenson argues that mobile apps must die. He explains why the overall model of native apps is holding us back and that they shouldn't be the default approach
  • Responsive web design is boring!

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    Responsive web design is boring!

    Jonathan Longnecker argues that most responsive sites are boring

    3 Oct 2011

    By Jonathan Longnecker on | 24 comments
    Jonathan Longnecker, co-founder of web and graphic design agency FortySeven Media, argues that most responsive sites are boring and comes up with a few starting points to help us create designs that break the mould
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