Adobe has recently released its much talked about Apollo software, which is billed as “a development environment for developing cross-platform RIAs for the desktop.” This sounds REALLY interesting to me. I am also REALLY not a developer. So if one of you supersmart designer/developer types wants to try it out, I would LOVE to hear [...]
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Axure v4 was released this week. You can download a 30-day free trial copy at http://axure.com/downloads.aspx.
There are some great new features:
Interactions: You can make prototypes respond to MouseOn and MouseOut events
Dynamic Panels: Widgets for which you can define multiple states, triggered by interactions
Masters on masters: [...]
One of the ideas that have been floating around in my head lately is that customer experience is becoming a primary differentiator in the desirability of a product. And now science says that’s right!
According to an article in Reuters, a Dutch scientist found that half of all product returns are because customers can’t figure out [...]
I’ve been reading this great blog lately called Looks Good Works Well, written by Bill Scott. You should definitely check it out. This is my second post here in response to something on this blog.
In his most recent post, Scott talks about his experience with a workshop at the eTech conference called “Creating Passionate Users,” [...]
Continuing the Web 2.0 theme that’s started here lately (though in a less sarcastic vein, heh), here’s a discussion of the recent release of the AJAX/DHTML library that Yahoo uses, along with a corresponding Design Pattern library:
 http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com/2006/02/yahoo-libraries-released-ajax-patterns.html
It’s full of useful links for you coder and pattern-user types.
These libraries have all been released under the Creative [...]
I recently crawled out from under a rather large rock, career-wise, and before I did so I made like the cool kids and got myself a Gmail account.
Oh, behold the glory that is Gmail.
Anyway…
Reading through a discussion on CHI-WEB or sigia-l (I don’t remember which), I noticed a nifty little text ad on the right [...]