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Giant’s Causeway
Sometimes it doesn’t matter what you’ve planned, life gets in the way. Last Christmas I was at home for two weeks. Two long weeks in which I was going to make the most of Northern Ireland’s beautiful landscape, two weeks in which I had access to car. Two weeks was going to be plenty of [...]
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Tags: northernireland, photography
The Black Version
As you may already know the iPlayer Facebook application is now gone, for two reasons: It was broken horribly by the launch of iPlayer 2.0 More importantly, it couldn’t compete with the new iPlayer as a user proposition That second one is the main reason. It was easy to compete with iPlayer 1. I know [...]
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Tags: bbc, facebook, iplayer, userexperience
Mashed
It been a long week at work after Mashed at the weekend. Things were a bit less chaotic in Alexandra Palace this year and from a personal perspective they almost couldn’t have been more different. In a complete turn around from last year, when I built something to give my employer a kick, this year [...]
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Tags: bbc, mashed08, pips, programmes
links for 2008-04-03
Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms “To sum up, if you have limited resources, add more data rather than fine-tuning the weights on your fancy machine-learning algorithm.” (tags: code data development learning programming semanticweb statistics recommendation) Traces of Inspiration >> Blog Archive >> URL as UI Another call for hackable URLs with examples from [...]
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I stumbled across a BBC press release on the plans for the new News and Sport sites: Notice the bold, orange text that stands out and looks a lot like a link. There are five of these in the press release, all of which are the name of a site on bbc.co.uk. None of them [...]
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Tags: bbc, web
links for 2008-03-31
BBC Internet Blog – BBC UX 2.0 “Suffice to say that if we relied solely on blog comments on this page to do our market, audience, usability and accessibility research we would truly not be doing our jobs.” Too true. (tags: bbc design redesign ui usability userexperience) GNM hires Yahoo developer | Media | guardian.co.uk [...]
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
I’ve just finished reading Nineteen Eighty-Four and it’s easily the most disturbing book I’ve ever read. It’s taken me a couple of months to get through it as I found it quite a difficult read. I sped up towards the end, but in the earlier sections I had to take hings a little bit more [...]
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Tags: book, fiction, freedom, privacy, reality
links for 2008-03-23
BBC – Programmes – Developers The new release of BBC Programmes adds a developers section, along with a fantastic new design. The guys over in Audio & Music Interactive have done an incredible job with this one. (tags: bbc programmes web web2.0 semanticweb design)
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links for 2008-03-20
Tech Beat Apple’s design process – BusinessWeek “After describing Apple’s process of delivering consumers with a succession of presents, he asked the question many have asked in their time: “How the f*ck do you do that?”” (tags: apple business culture design development product management usability userexperience emotion process prototyping)
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links for 2008-03-19
HTTP/1.1 (DELETE, GET, HEAD, PUT, POST) : Alan Dean Activity diagram describing HTTP response status codes. (tags: http diagram web rest documentation reference development programming visualization webservices webstandards) The Origin Of The iChat UI – Thought Palace Jens Alfke’s 1997 UI mockup that became iChat. Drawn in ClarisWorks! (tags: apple design history inspiration mac software [...]
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