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UX Creator Tip: Fear the surrogate user.

UX Creator Tip: Fear the surrogate user.

Ever sat on a project and heard someone give their account as to why the user base won’t like xyz feature or UI change? Ever sat in a cubicle and listen to someone rail against the idea of change for fear it would upset the user base to the point where the helpdesk would [...]

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Project Salvaging is Microsprinting

Project Salvaging is Microsprinting

Situation is simple, you’re someone who has been brought into a project at its last witching hour, there are not a lot of project management fundamentals in the room and everyone is constantly emphasizing the “we have to get this done, no time” analogies and metaphors at you. What do you do? How do [...]

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Silverlight Installation / Preloader Experience – BarnesStyle.

Silverlight Installation / Preloader Experience – BarnesStyle.

When I was in the Silverlight Product team, I had many visions of where I wanted to take the product beyond where some of my co-team mates were comfortable with (slow painful incremental growth in terms of change).
One of the main focal areas I wanted to fix, was the overall Installation and Preloading Experiences for [...]

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Context and Experience Matters.

Context and Experience Matters.

Hold your hats folks, I’m about to praise Adobe and yes I’m now a confused UX soul as a result of it.
What has got me all hot and bothered in the right way about Adobe, is the Adobe.TV site, as for me it just brought something to life in which I was often quite vocal [...]

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Controlling your Silverlight Installation Experience.

Controlling your Silverlight Installation Experience.

I’ve been doing plug-in development & design for many years, and often I’ve seen many a battle around this space. It typically starts with ubiquity, once that is overcome it then settles down at abandonment rates and from there the curse of the dreaded plug-in ends.
The reality however, no matter what plug-in you choose is [...]

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