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Can an Amazing User Experience Be Designed? User experience designers have a difficult job, and it's not finished at the beginning of a development project. The designer's input is needed throughout the entire lifecycle. But can a UX actually be designed? Some feel that this is impossible; others aren't so sure. |
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What Sets a Great UX Apart? The Little Details That Show You Care With so many advanced apps, programs, and devices on the market these days, it’s no longer enough for something to just function the way it’s supposed to. What makes a successful product is influenced by how nice an experience it provides for the user—and more often, that comes down to the details. |
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Google Public Alerts Shows Need for Open Data in Disaster Response Google Public Alerts provides emergency information during natural disasters. But government agencies often store information in closed formats, making it harder to share and analyze data. Google.org is promoting the adoption of international standards of web data to speed up response efforts. |
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Gesture Recognition Technology Begins to Eclipse Even Itself It wasn't long ago that we all marveled at being able to control things like video games and our computer cursors with only our hand movements—no touching required. Now we learn that we can complete the same tasks—and many others—without even being in the same room. |
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Is Minimalism the New Business Model for the Tech Industry? The tech business model used to be to provide comprehensive products with more features than your average consumer would use. But bigger is no longer better—with more individual and small-business clients, many just want basics. Is scaling back and offering service flexibility the new philosophy? |
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Should the CIO Know How to Code? The issue isn’t whether CIOs should actually do the coding but whether they should know enough to understand IT complexities and to represent IT to customers. With more senior IT leaders coming from other departments, it isn’t a trivial question. This story looks at both sides of the matter. |
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Fear Not, Google Reader Fans: A Coder Developed an Open-Source Clone On the news that Google Reader, the aggregator of choice for many people's RSS feeds, was retiring, one coder took matters into his own hands and created a veritable clone. He kept the UI basic, posted his code publicly, and invited anyone who'd like to run it to do so—in true open-source fashion. |
