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Top 15 music APIs to power your next mashup

Music and the web have a long history, from Napster through the iTunes Store to the MP3 blogs of today. For Web 2.0 hackers, however, the availability of public APIs proves pretty hit or miss...

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Agile User Experience: If you have a silo, knock it down

Human Factors & UX

In many development processes, team members are organized by functional group. A project might have a team of developers building the code, and then down the hall or across the globe, a separate team of designers working on the visual...

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Agile UX: If You Don't Have A User, Invent One

Human Factors & UX

Following up on [Brian's point][brian]... A customer proxy of one kind or another is also important in integrating Agile practices with User Eexperience Design. One of the long standing issues in combine Agile development with User Experience Design is just...

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Agile R&D: If you don't have a client, invent one

I'm working on an internal project at Pathfinder: a cool little Rails app originally developed by one team and now being dusted off and extended by another team. Because this is an R&D project, specifications are a little vague. My...

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Stock Ticker Entry Fields and Usability

Interface design is about balance and accommodation. One of the most important balancing acts an interface must play is in accommodating the diverging expectations of the novice and the expert user. The expert knows what he wants to do, and...

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Usability review: Amtrak.com checkout process

Human Factors & UX

Many large ecommerce sites work beautifully as long as users do what they're supposed to. The minute users make mistakes, however, the UxD falls apart completely. Case in point: Amtrak's online checkout process, in which poor choices about error handling...

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Get in the Flow (Task Flow that is)

Human Factors & UX

Call them what you like (task flows, work flows, process flows), flow diagrams are an important part of any software project. As a developer, you may be more familiar with sequence diagrams, a nifty way to visualize an exchange of...

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Pair Programming with VNC

A little Agile to go with the Ajax... My four commandments of Agile Development are: Short iterations Pair programming Test driven development Continuous improvement (sprint reviews, etc.) I have strong opinions about continuous integration and related agile practices, but those...

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What is UxD?

Human Factors & UX

A couple of weeks ago a sales presentation was being prepared in our New York office; it was primarily focussed on the problem at hand, but the presenter wanted to include a single slide as a cue to talk about...

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A Sequence Diagram for Scriptaculous

In reverse engineering the Scriptaculous into GWTaculous, I've done a bit of spelunking and produced a few artifacts to explain Scriptaculous to myself. I thought I'd share one of them -- a sequence diagram for Effects -- in the hopes...

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Writing Technical Requirements: The First Commandment

Business Analysts seem to come from two areas: Developers who want to be Writers Writers who want to be Developers Coming from the second group myself, I've often been asked to help neophyte writers improve their skills. Trading writing tips...

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36 GWT Tutorials

While the excellent GWT in Action was released last month, there are lots of people that want to get their feet wet before plunking down $50 for a book. To that end, I've pulled together all of the...

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