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Social Media is here to stay. It blew in like that whirl wind romance that you still can’t quite understand. It is becoming so overwhelming and encompassing that you literally can’t go anywhere without hearing or seeing references to it. You’ll be in the middle of eating, working or sleeping and that great memory will [...]

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Is it too soon to state that the art of conversation has ended? Or are we embarking on a new tangent of communication mediated through our far reaching networks and ever capable devices.

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A successful business starts by discovering what clients, customers or users want and need and then figures out how to deliver them in a way that works for the business. Competitive advantage is a lot closer to being realized when companies also figure out a way to differentiate themselves from others that share their space. [...]

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User research has been conducted and analyzed, user goals and tasks have been defined and user-centric wireframes have been designed. There should be no reason for a website to be a failure. Unless visual design does not support usability but rather impedes on the user’s web experience.
Here are five critical tips to ensure visual designs [...]

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Everybody loves their iPhone… except when it’s -30°C and you’re risking frostbite by exposing your poor fingers to the unforgiving winter wind. So how then do we fight back against Mother Nature this season to keep our fingers happily skating over our touchscreens? Well, there are a multitude of gizmos and gadgets readily available for [...]

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People have been interacting with computers for well over 50 years. In the early 1950s researchers from Stanford Research Lab, Xerox PARC and MIT paved the waved the way for what would be a burgeoning ecosystem of pointing devices. The original mouse, created by Douglas Engelbart, was to be an inexpensive alternative to the light [...]

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Day and night, the streets of Korea are generally fairly busy. Especially, in the streets of the Gangnam district in southern Seoul, which are filled with shops, cafés and restaurants. Along the sidewalk of the road, there are twenty one vertical metal poles that are 12 meters tall with video screens all the way to [...]

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Think of a cellphone.  Think of buying a cellphone.  Think of using a cellphone.  Think of loving your cellphone, so much, the next time an upgraded version comes out – you don’t think – you just get it and adore it.  Why?  Because you’ve fallen in love with the experience your cellphone provides.
Now, think [...]

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Software design has traditionally been conducted in somewhat of a vacuum – Business Analysts gather requirements from talking to users and then the BA communicates the requirements to Systems Analysts usually in the form of a dense Business Requirements Document. What gets lost in translation from End User to BA to SA are the nuances [...]

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the biggest driver behind the shift to RIA is the growing expectation on the part of users in terms of what they can do at a website.