July 2007
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User-focussed Design Works!
Proof, if more proof were needed that keeping the user in mind when designing a product, document or website really does work. Renewing a support contract with a client, I was asking them if the website had been beneficial and if there was anything about it that had worked well. The response wasn’t quite what…
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Find a blog
Right you lot, let’s shake some of those summer holiday cobwebs out of our systems! Yes, I think it’s about time we all put a little more effort into our blogs, and spent less time faffing about in real life doing interesting things. I don’t want to hear about your holiday, I don’t want to…
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Weekender
Friday night. Games night at work, with a Wiimbledon tournament running on one wall (using the overhead projector) and a Pro Evolution Soccer tournament running on one of the small LCD tvs.. a third TV had an XBox hooked up for various games, and a second Wii was chopping and changing another set of games.…
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My Mother is an idiot
First things first, she’s not really, but I’ll get to that… This is a post in two parts although it wasn’t planned that way. Considering the title of this post (which was hard to type, believe me) I thought it prudent to pre-warn Mumsy less the shock prove to much and send her to the…
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Content Audits
The basic premise behind auditing your content is to better understand both the structure and the content itself. Conceptually the idea seems simple enough, but in reality performing a content audit can be fairly boring. However, whether you are conducting the audit as part of a single source conversion project, or if you have recently…
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A good society
I love you guys. Seriously, you continue to inspire and provoke and without YOU (yes, even YOU) then this blog would have died a long time ago. Specifically looking at the comments left yesterday, I’m dead chuffed that you took my somewhat hastily written post and turned it into a discussion about the current decline…