Web 2.0 Design and Usability

June 2009 Usability Update

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:58:06 PDT

June 2009 Update: USEFUL TOOLS and Websites >>> Here's some new articles and Web 2.0 sites you may find useful: Web 2.0 Social Networks - Viral loops distilled Looking for...

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Enterprise Mashups and collaboration that works...

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Mon, 04 May 2009 09:27:10 PDT

I'll be speaking next week at a new conference here in the US. It's called Jboye and is focused on delivering practical enterprise solutions for collaboration and knowledge management in a vendor...

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Useful Web 2.0 Sites / Improving Form Usability

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:05:01 PDT

Here's a few tools and Web 2.0 sites you may find useful: Web 2.0 Travel site - Driven by User Generated Content: http://www.uptake.com Trying to create a cross-device Mobile Phone...

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Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:33:11 PST

A little New Year's humor on taking the one-click, one-button approach a bit too far.

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Danish Design, Corporate Wikis and Enterprise Usability

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:59:44 PST

I just returned from my third year of speaking on Usability at the Jboye08 conference in Aarhus Denmark. With each annual visit, I enjoy meeting up with old colleagues and getting a different...

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Google Chrome Browser Targets Key Web 2.0 Usability Issues

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:00:24 PDT

The release of the new Google Chrome browser may provide a big boost in usability for those embracing advanced Web application design. Our early take on the browser highlights a few key things...

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Has this GMAIL Outage Proven It Has Become An Essential Web Utility?

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:16:01 PDT

My Gmail account has been down this afternoon. We made the switch to use GMAIL web services as the primary funnel for all our emails due to the superior spam filters and improved AJAX (Desktop)...

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Making Complex Web Navigation a Usable Experience

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:06:03 PDT

Information and feature overload is reducing user productivity and effectiveness. Here's my latest article from our research at Classic System Solutions, Inc. I discuss the popular complex...

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Useful Tools To Help Improve Usability Of Software and Websites

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:33:51 PDT

Here's a few tools we find useful on projects to help promote and ensure usability: Color Challenged Developers? Here's a great tool to help your team select color a combination with aesthetic...

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New Ajax Charting Tools May Improve Web Usability

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:40:12 PDT

Here's an updated Ajax charting library to bring your static charts to life without causing excessive screen refresh issues. ComponentArt Charting Gallery Ever since Google Finance released their...

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How to Make Your AJAX Applications Accessible - 40 Tutorials and Articles

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:20:06 PST

ax Kiesler - How to Make Your AJAX Applications Accessible - 40 Tutorials and Articles

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Google's Innovative Yet Limited AJAX Environment: GWT @ AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Tue, 30 May 2006 01:52:41 PDT

http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/225045.htm

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134 Ajax Frameworks and Counting

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Wed, 10 May 2006 22:22:53 PDT

134 Ajax Frameworks and Counting: "Ajax, AjaxExperience, AjaxPatterns, Frameworks, Libraries, Patterns I’m here in SF for The Ajax..."

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Yahoo! Design Patterns Update

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:01:30 PDT

Yahoo! Design Patterns Update: "The Yahoo! Design Pattern Library was updated today with new patterns for creating visual transitions, invitations, and page grids. In addition, the team has provided...

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Leveraging Enterprise Applications with Web 2.0

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Fri, 26 May 2006 11:54:10 PDT

Delivering on the vision…. It all started a few years ago with the CIO vision… ‘We need a 360 degree view of the customer’. If your company is typical of most out there, you have spent the last few...

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If Web2.0 applied to cars

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 05:44:17 PST

If Web2.0 applied to cars: "If Web2.0 applied to cars… They would only be available in Lime Green, Orange, Hot Pink and Deep Blue. All of which also in gradients. Manufacturers..."

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How can ajaxWrite be free? The “Culture Of Use” War

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:47:10 PST

How can ajaxWrite be free? The “Culture Of Use” War: "Michael Robertson’s latest shtick is ajaxWrite. Michael is yet another ex- Don Norman / UCSD student, and is well known as the founder of...

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Why Mobile Ajax will replace J2ME and XHTML

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:43:50 PST

Why Mobile Ajax will replace J2ME and XHTML: "Ajit Jaokar has an opinion on platforms for mobile devices. He believes that the Ajax programming model will take on a large share of the dev mindshare...

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Ajax Resources

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:14:31 PST

Ajax Resources: "Alex Bosworth written a great article about the Ajax Mistakes often made by the web developers. read here And there is a wiki which says, what are the..."

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Learning to love Web 2. (BBC News)

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:10:33 PST

Learning to love Web 2. (BBC News): "I've been sceptical about Web 2.0, since although there are a lot of cool toys out there, the idea that you can solve the problems of distributed computing by...

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How Web 2.0 Killed Microsoft

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Fri, 26 May 2006 11:55:37 PDT

How Web 2.0 Killed Microsoft: "Operating Systems Hardly Matter Any More I believe, now more than ever, that the operating system running your computer is irrelevant to your success. Your operating...

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Ruby On Rails Goes 1.1

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:18:15 PST

Ruby On Rails Goes 1.1: "MrByte420 writes 'The Ruby On Rails team today released version 1.1 of the web framework. From the announcement: 'Rails 1.1 boasts more than 500 fixes, tweaks, and features...

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Round-up of 30 Ajax tutorials

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:08:26 PST

Round-up of 30 Ajax tutorials: "There are lots of people writing lots of tutorials about Ajax, apparently, and Max Kielser has created a list of 30 of them. The MDC’s short-but-sweet AJAX:Getting...

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Too Many Ajax Calendars

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:30:30 PST

Too Many Ajax Calendars: "On his blog, Joel Spolsky, has posted some of his opinions on the proliferation of Ajax-enabled calendering systems that have been coming out lately - and how none of them...

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Web Trends 2006 for Web Developers

jimh@classicsys.com (Classic System Solutions, Inc.) — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 18:00:18 PST

Web Trends 2006 for Web Developers: "2006 is just around the corner, and that means that it is time to bring some (vague) predictions for this web business we are in. The AJAX hype will go on - but...

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