[Paper Prototyping] How To Move a TV with One Finger

First, I’ll tell you about Paper Prototyping: Paper prototyping is a widely used method in the user-centered design process, a process that helps developers to create software that meets the user’s expectations and needs – in this case, especially for designing and testing user interfaces. It is throwaway prototyping and involves creating rough, even-hand sketched, drawings of...

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Why SEO Will Die

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in the traditional sense will die soon. Why? Because Google is now implementing the “DIGG-style” functionality on it’s search results. What’s that? Well just look at the following image: You’ll see on a result page, you can choose move a search result to the top by clicking on the up-arrow corresponding result, which will be marked...

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Bullsh*t Gang: How Sleight of Hand Works

Now for your entertainment, Penn and Teller of the show Bullsh*t teaches you how Sleight of Hand Works: The Seven Principles of Sleight of Hand are: 1. Palm – To hold an object in an apparently empty hand. 2. Ditch – To secretly dispose of an unneeded object. 3. Steal – To secretly obtain a needed object. 4. Load – To secretly move an object to where it is...

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One Simple Way to Help Improve Your User’s Password Strength

If you start into web development, here’s a simple yet elegant way to improve your user’s password strength. I’ve seen this applied to Gator Hosting WHM system. Basically have a bar that fills up from red (weak password) to green (very strong password). This simple feedback mechanism works for me. It hints the user to improve their passwords yet doesn’t take up too much...

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How Not To Design An Email Marketing Letter

Received this email today: All my eyes could say were “OUCH!” Please whoever you guys are. GET A DESIGNER! Even worse is this: There is such a thing as ‘test’ sending. I think today is BAD EMAIL...

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