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We all want beautiful things. A beautiful graphic user interface is no exception. But how do you define beauty? Pretty colors? Balanced composition? Elegant typography? Appealing trimmings? Grid fidelity?
Without diminishing those things, my feeling is that, when it comes to GUIs, the most beautiful are the ones you don't notice. The beautiful GUI is so useful, so understandable, so usable that...
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Hollywood on the run.
Hollywood is worried, although they have not yet had a full-blown panic attack. Their bedrock market - the one they have always taken for granted - is eroding beneath their feet. Generation X, is growing up and their tastes have changed. The once captive audience that grew up on the "Star Wars" movies that their parents took them to is finding that their own children are not...
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Laura spoke to the concept of interactivity.
The gating step is how much data can be delivered how fast over what system to the destination.
I look back ten years ago and Netscape was the rage. My customers changed markedly from 1990 to 1996. In 1990, they were mostly software oriented people who could pop the top of a computer and fix stuff as fast as Gyro Gearloose, could.
Ten years before that...
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This may sound kind of like a sales pitch, but it seems that many people do not understand the difference between a static website (aka "brochureware") and a dynamic website. So I thought I'd explore the question: When is a brochure more than a brochure? I think vlado put it quite simply:
"If you have more features, you'll pay far more"
Well, Laura seems to favour exactly the opposite - quote the...
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Shigeru Miyagawa, Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, discusses "Personal Media" on 17 minute streaming video [link updated] in part one of a series entitled "Media, Education, and the Marketplace." Professor Miyagawa's insights are fascinating and dovetail with the role that the founders of pingV have envisioned.
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Perhaps the biggest thing that every web designer has to grapple with is the fact that each website visitor might have any combination of web browser, browser window size and screen resolution. In other words, ten different people visiting the site might might have ten different website experiences. Site A viewed on Firefox for Windows on a screen with 1600x1200 resolution will look much...
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