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Over the past year, I’ve evaluated the search experiences on a number of popular content sites. With the help of author and interface designer Darcy DiNucci , I picked a...

There are three main aspects: the player, the file format, and the authoring tool/IDE. Flash games can be developed for websites, interactive TV, as well as handheld devices. T...

Whew! According to Computer Gaming World, there are 80 gazillion free Flash games sites in the cyber world. Popular sites are: ? www.games.yahoo.com -- this has card g...

It's really no secret that search giant, Google.com , wants to own the gateway to all media online. They operate the Web's most popular search engine, largest free bloggin...

Over 40% of all emails within your marketing campaign are not being delivered. You may not even be aware of this, as many ISPs will not send back a bounce message. In fact if y...

TCO (Total Cost Ownership) is the buzzword in today?s business world. This metric helps enterprise managers assess direct and indirect costs and benefits derived from their inv...

Virtual IT: How It Can Benefit Your Business Most successful small business computer consultants position their companies as virtual IT departments? Why? Because providing v...

A friend and I were having a discussion recently. I asked him what he thought the next method of distribution for films and music would be. My thoughts were that we would have ...

Voice Over Internet Protocol ? A Few Things You Need To Know First Unless you have had your head in the sand lately you will have heard of VOIP. Everyone seems to be talking...

10. If you have employees, you need a point of sale system. If you have employees you are open to theft, sweet-hearting and careless mistakes. You need a point of sale syste...

The lifeblood of the spammer is email. They need to be able to send lots of it on an ongoing basis to stay in "business". High profile spammers can send 80 million pieces of ju...

Microsoft Business Solutions stakes on Microsoft Great Plains as main Accounting/ERP application for US market. At the same time it seems to be staking on Navision in Europe a...

Around the time Google announced ?Big Daddy,? there was a new Googlebot roaming the web. Since then I?ve heard stories from clients of websites and servers going down and prev...

For years now, the “ROI of User Experience” has been sought as a means to justify larger corporate investments in web design. Although ROI methodology can be a usef...

Five years ago, Robert Reimann wrote a seminal article for the Cooper Newsletter called “So You Want To Be an Interaction Designer.” Like many people, I read ...

(...)You get object-oriented languages like Java and Smalltalk, and function-oriented languages like PHP. Well that was the theory, until PHP introduced its objects model in PH...

The proliferation of usability labs is a sign of success for the field of user-centered design. Whether it’s a low-rent lab comprised of a couple adjacent conference room...

As part of our New Ventures program, Adaptive Path worked with Sphere, a San Francisco-based startup, to develop and refine their weblog search engine. Project lead Ryan Frei...

"Learn when and how to implement this new technology". This article focuses on usability and issues concerning implementing AJAX in web UIs. It suggests how it should and how i...

Contrary to all the books, articles, Web sites, and workshops that suggest otherwise, the biggest problem in user experience design today is not one of practice. Any competent ...

Web developers now face problems of similar difficulty in dealing with decent-size desktop application projects. Project support and continuous evolution involves lots of effor...