Jahr: 2012

Tony Byrne at the Real Story Group – Beware user experience overreach in your website overhaul: “In lieu of shelfware, you can end up with shelfscreens: planned user experiences that you never roll out. […] 1. Here’s the operational maturity and ongoing staff education you’ll require […] 3. Here’s the metadata savvy (and consistency!) you’ll…

Dianne Kennedy – Finally — an XML Markup Solution for Design-Based Publishers: Introducing the PRISM Source Vocabulary: “Until the tablet-publishing tsunami hit, design-based publications were able to justify their labor-intensive design-based publication process. […] We have come to believe the Source is the Solution. We must capture and store platform-agnostic content as early as possible.…

Jon Moore – Using HTML as the Media Type for your API: “There are actually a variety of reasons I prefer using HTML: rich semantics hypermedia support already standardized tooling support” Update: See my post on HTML Hypermedia API resources.

Enterprise Search – Want search ‚just like Google‘?: “One reason Google on the public web is so good is that it has a huge data set to work with. But – and this is what most enterprise search owners don’t get – Google also has armies of engineers and bots looking at search activity every…

Dave Winer – A message from developers to users: “So the process is: 1. Users do something. 2. Users do other things. 3. They do more of some things than others. 4. Patterns emerge. 5. You see which way to go. 6. You make that way easy.”

Jakub Holý – Programming Like Kent Beck: “Complexity can often arise from excess flexibility, but if that flexibility is not needed then it is waste. The best kind of flexibility comes from simplicity coupled with extensive tests.”

Chris Hartjes – Why Don’t You Trust Your Developers?: “For most of my career, the reality has been that developers sit there in an open concept office with music being piped into their ears so that people won’t distract them so they can get some fucking work done. Every meeting, every random conversation, every interruption…

Sarah Saunders – Find the Rights – IPTC Conference 2012: “People need easy access to images they can legally license or use. For this, we need identifiable icons on thumbnails and easy click through to source web sites. (see PicScout Image Exchange)” PicScout looks interesting, but I’d still prefer open, “semantic web” based image search…

Gerry McGovern at CMSWire – Web Experience: Designing for the Obvious, the Boring, the „Of Course“: “Often, making it easy for the customer means doing lots of boring, behind the scenes work. For example, you can make your search work much better by deleting old content. But that’s the type of work nobody really wants…

Matthew Heusser at CIO.com – How to Advance Lean Software Development (Beyond the ‚Toyota Way‘): “Lean manufacturing focuses on delivering one part, end-to-end. This is sometimes called one-piece flow. […] To get to one-piece flow, we’ll eliminate multi-tasking. […] Instead of „pushing“ work to the next step in the chain, we pull it. This means…