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Becoming a product manager is a logical move for many UX practitioners, as it requires many of the same skills, traits, and competencies involved in crafting a user experience. Additionally, product management is a common role within many organizations, m

This article introduces the basics of cognitive psychology around colour and patterns -- what you need to know, and how it affects Web design in a nutshell.

Some of the worst problems plaguing companies who attempt to enter the world of blogging.

The implications of having two camps for accessibility

My testing order, why I test in the browsers I do, and why I do it in that particular order.

"We can all agree that the realities of the web make it hard to build a standards-compliant site. Once the client’s CMS, outdated WYSIWYG editors, and third-party advertising code have finished with once-valid markup, things begin to look ever-so-ugly u

"One of the difficulties for a first-time project manager is that being a great project resource (i.e. team member) is what gets you the job as project manager, nine times out of ten. Unfortunately, the characteristics of a great project resource are not

OpenID is a simple piece of infrastructure on which smart applications can be built—applications that may not have been possible prior to the adoption of OpenID.

Provides an edit button for any edit box on any page

The aim of this course is to introduce you to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Priority 1 and Priority 2 checkpoints.

While CCNet was built for Windows, trac wasn't. This guide should be helpful to those trying to get this combination working in Windows.

"We thought now was a good time to step back and talk about media consumption drivers, and how to accurately assess adoption of our increasingly feed-powered Webosphere (we did NOT just say "webosphere")."

A set of helper classes for JQuery JavaScript library.This library allows you to easily integrate AJAX , Effects and other JQuery functionality into your PHP scripts.

What are the Pros and Cons of OpenID currently? Here's a crack at it (from the Radar Team)

So just what is a decorative image? It seems to me that one person’s eye candy is another person’s emotional link to a website.

Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design: "I'm calling these hypotheses instead of laws because they have yet to be proven out through rigrous scientific study and critique. I've developed them merely from anecdotes and examples."

Modern organisations are finally starting to define themselves by looking inwards, chasing authenticity instead of the latest fleeting trends [...] These seven principles are the creeds of a thoroughly modern approach to corporate communications.

Some of the web's most innovative developers might want to check the temperature when they arrive for the Future of Web Apps conference this week -- in tech circles, this city is getting hot again.

This is David's account of the second and final day of the Future Of Web Apps 2007 conference in London.

55 piece tool kit for mobile search

This is the README file for the OpenID extension for MediaWiki software.

Make claims and share cred

idproxy.net lets you use your Yahoo! account to sign in to sites that support the OpenID standard

A MyOpenID account lets you use any OpenID enabled website. That means no more boring registration, with only one password to remember.

This report tests the mobile-readiness of your site using industry best practices & standards

A research and development space run by Vodafone Group R&D. We aim to encourage collaboration in the area of mobile and internet communications.

"Released soon." Underwhelmed.

A beta release of the new GUI of the ContactOffice Virtual Office

Twingly screensaver is visualizing the global blog activity in real time.

Synchronizes your contacts between your mobile, pda, home pc, work pc, and third party applications.

"Enter your last.fm and upcoming.org usernames and we'll keep track of the artists you listen to and let you know if they're coming to your town." Shame it's broken.

The application allows you to quickly and easily upload images from your camera phone to Flickr. The photos uploaded can be automatically annotated with the location (usually based on cell tower) in which they were taken.

Amazon Web Services provides developers with direct access to Amazon's robust technology platform. Build on Amazon's suite of web services to enable and enhance your applications.

Let others view your office documents on the web without using Microsoft applications

ThinkFree Office is a Microsoft® Office compatible application suite comprised of word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics software-all usable online and off.

May have been the poor presentation but I'm having trouble getting excited about quotations.

BT Contact is in private beta and is currently limited to BT employees only. If you enter a non-BT.com email address you will be invited to join the public beta when it becomes available.

The Future Of Web Apps 2007 kicked off in London today with a host of speakers from various startups, bigcos, media outlets and associated businesses."

For quite some time the methodologies of how best to deal with acronyms and abbreviations on the web have been discussed by developers the world over. We seek the best practices and hope to serve all of our visitors with something of use.

Use BaseJumpr to export your Basecamp project data and files and host them on activeCollab, an open source project management solution similar to Basecamp.

allows you to select rectangular areas on <DIV> or <IMG> elements, calculate selection coordinates, display them or send them to the server.

This document will summarize the level of support for web standards and maturing technologies in popular web browsers. It covers the Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera web browsers, with focus on the HTML, CSS, DOM, and ECMAScript technologies.

"Report, view, or discuss local problems like graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs, or street lighting." Nicely done.

A smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use while still providing many features including support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, and more.

Visual decoration had to be kept to minimum. For me, this mean forgoing any heavy visual treatment of the header or inclusion of a mark or logo. [...] I would have to rely on typography, the grid, and whitespace to create an aesthetically pleasing experie