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A Broken Experience: when progressive thinking runs amok

by Dirk September 12, 2007

Product by product, Yahoo! is slowly losing my business. Ever since the so-called “Ajax” phenomenon, Yahoo! has been a leader in the software industry of trying to weave JavaScript magic. Leveraging their legions of talented software professionals, the company redesigns one product after another, in most cases heavily using JavaScript and various fancy tools and [...]

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Deconstructing the Mobile Web

by Dirk May 8, 2006

Originally published at UXmatters The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that the mobile Web is largely overplayed hype—the clumsy extrapolation of the behavior and use of a basic set of interfaces from one environment to another incompatible one. As a result of this broken mental model of mobile computing, we [...]

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Preparing for Web 2.0: a software design reading list

by Dirk January 1, 2006

Originally published at gotoreport The notion of Web 2.0 has turned people’s heads: they are paying attention, and are hungry for information in a way they have not been about the web in a long time. And one of the notable results of this is a fast focus on the underlying technologies more than the [...]

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Re-thinking Application Design

by Dirk November 7, 2005

Originally published at Digital Web Magazine I’ve learned a lot about application design during my career. I started out working in medium-sized agencies in the Midwest, primarily servicing large corporate clients. From that experience, I developed a conceptual model of how to accomplish Web design based on my observations of both the structure of my [...]

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Data: the essence of a digital lifestyle

by Dirk November 3, 2005

Originally published at UXmatters I’ve been thinking a lot about metadata recently, but not from the standpoint of XML or programming or helping to organize and index data. My interest is in the future of content ownership, delivery, and value. I see a future for media that looks very different from the media of today. [...]

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Fixing an Old-School Site Controlled by a “Webmaster”

by Dirk July 22, 2005

From research and scoping to implementation and management, the components of successful interface design span many specialties and practitioners. But often the most challenging problems are not about the design, they are about organizational management and people. Here is one scenario and potential solution, to assist in your implementation of successful interface design. The Lowdown: [...]

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Three Ways to Improve Financial Services Websites

by Dirk July 18, 2005

Originally published at AIGA Recent trends in online business practices are changing our expectations of corporate websites and online services. 1. Developing nations are a rapidly rising force in business and technology. 2. The market is aggressively demanding innovative products. 3. Corporate website development teams more frequently adopt user-centered design practices. 4. Digital products have [...]

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Rich Internet Applications: when to take the leap

by Dirk July 14, 2005

Originally published at Flashability Last November, in my column “Innovating the Web Experience” on Digital Web, I wrote about “The End of Usability Culture.” where I identified the trends that presaged the rise and popularity of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). A few months later, Jesse James Garrett published his essay on AJAX , and RIAs [...]

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Completely Rethinking the Web

by Dirk May 18, 2005

Originally published at Digital Web Magazine It’s Spring 2005. April showers, May flowers. The hope of a new year bursting forth all around us. It’s a time for optimism and new beginnings and hope. But, despite more than 10 years of development, of spring after spring bearing promise, we are left to accept one incontrovertible [...]

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Web Design for All the Senses

by Dirk January 12, 2005

Originally published at Digital Web Magazine My friend, Nathan Shedroff, provides many foundations and definitions for the discipline of experience design in his book experience design 1: “Most technological experiences—including digital and, especially, online experiences—have paled in comparison to real-world experiences and have been relatively unsuccessful as a result. What these solutions require is for [...]

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