May 2012
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Getting Simple with a CMS
GetSimple really is the simplest content management system (CMS) ever. After seeing so many people amazed by Kirby - a licensed file-based CMS - I started looking for something at least comparable but open-source, and here is GetSimple.
I’ve been atracted by its two first principles and its admin front-end:
XML Based We don’t use mySQL to store our information, but instead depend...
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UX in Spain
UX Spain - the first event about User Experience in our country - has been successfully celebrated this week with a pretty high number of attendees, almost 400.
We’ve had the opportunity to meet, know, share and discuss hot topics that concerns to our profession at every level and with a very varied kind of people.
Now that we’re back having our minds in the next #UXSP, we all seems...
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April 2012
3 posts
WatchWebstock ‘12: Jared Spool - The Anatomy of a Design Decision
Excellent talk, funny, revealing, with a large variety of examples, some healthcare industry samples between them.
What are the habits of highly effective design teams? The best designs come from not one, but hundreds of well-made decisions. The worst designs arise out of hundreds of poorly-made decisions. All that stands between...
Columnal CSS - A responsive CSS grid system →
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“The real thing with Agile is that never ends. From the moment of your first very...”
– Hugh Beyer – Getting Started with UX Inside Agile Development
March 2012
2 posts
“El buen diseño no sólo acabará con los manuales de usuario y las instrucciones...”
– good design is…
February 2012
4 posts
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WatchUsability and Electronic Health Records at User Centric
Mobile Best Practices (alpha) →
Strategy, User Experience, Visual Design, Development Resources for web mobile development
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WatchAre you about to create mobile experiences but you’re still looking for inspiration?
The Revolution will be Portable: Understanding the Tablet Opportunity
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[Book] User Experience Management - Skills for... →
Good reference book for checking from time to time as a guide for the most common management activities.
I want to remark the consideration about the difference between Leadership and Management that is described in different chapters. The attributes for leadership are expressed as follows:
Leadership
Leaders infect others with vision and generate enthusiasm.
Leaders communicate, and...
January 2012
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A UX Developer is...
A UX Developer is all of that – a front end developer with a sensitivity and talent for crafting a UI that is going to be better to use – but in addition to that they have a declared interest in understanding more about the User Experience work that goes ahead of the UI design.
via @leisa
… a must read post.
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An Important Time for Design (A List Apart) →
Reading this:
Design as partner
If we want to really show what design is and what it can do, we need to get design elevated to the partner level. Partners have major equity stakes, real decision-making power, and are involved in product development from the beginning. The design team must feel that it has both the authority to make product decisions and the responsibility for the outcome of...
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Fireworks wireframing kit →
Via @Wireframes
December 2011
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Is Microsoft Common User Interface ended? →
MSCUI provides User Interface Design Guidance and Toolkit controls that address a wide range of patient safety issues faced by healthcare organizations worldwide. However, in the last months we haven’t received any new a part from their Clinical Documentation Solution.
Does it mean it’s over? Despite the ambition of providing a definitive CUI, Microsoft has done an impressive work...
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[Links] 2011 - A year of UX and more
What we read from blogs we’re subscribed to it’s part of our every-day inspiration.
After a year, I’ve had opportunity to read and discover different posts with a special influence in me, anyhow. The year is ending now and this is the summary of the readings I recommend before 2012.
December
Getting started with Sass
Mobile, social, fun: Games for Health
November
100...
Anonymous asked: Hi Carmel, how can I get in touch with you? I am @IATV. Would you pls ping me? I came across you at the Design for Care forum. Thanx.
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New O’Reilly Book: Mobile Design Pattern Gallery →
November 2011
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“Puesto que el ser humano - a pesar de sus miserias - tiene una esencial vocación...”
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Since the human being - regardless of their misery - is an essential vocation of greatness, it is appropriate that we turn to that greatness to fight with our miseries.
J. A. Marina “Los secretos de la motivación” (The Secrets of Motivation).
Do you have a project? Wishes ⇒ Tasks ⇒...
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A great example of responsive layout →
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“you don’t come up with an iPod just by making a Walkman really easy to use”
– Remote Research by Nate Bolt and Tony Tulathimutte, Rosenfeld Media, 2010;
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[Book] Mobile First
Brief, direct and simple. The idea: address your business strategy thinking first in your mobile experience. Why? to force simplicity, to reduce complexity, to get our users focus on content, to understand your product as pills of functionality handable by any user. Which user? that one who is in “one eyeball and one thumb” mode. Appealing, isn’t it? Well, it is challenging.
A...
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Designing and developing HTML5+CSS3 webistes and...
In my previous post “CSS3 Tools“ we saw I few well-known websites which provides frameworks and tools to start with CSS3.
Here, I’d like to complete and extend that list with more useful frameworks, libraries and other assets to play with the new version of the html markup.
Applications
Visual Web Developer 2010 Express
Dreamweaver CS5.5 (Dreamweaver Mobile Center)
Adobe...
October 2011
9 posts
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“And one of the biggest misconceptions, or one of the questions I hear...”
– Read/Listen the podcast of Jeff Patton – Story Mapping for UX Practitioners: Tying Agile and UX Together
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CSS3 Tools
Digging into web and gathering recommendations, I’ve created this post with a set of tools for CSS themer who wants to develop with the latest version of cascade style sheets CSS3.
Hope you find them useful, too.
Modernizr
Open-source JavaScript library that helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites.
Selectivzr
JavaScript utility that emulates CSS3...
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MSCUI Clinical Documentation Solution →
A great tool as clinical documentation solution where we can see how the UI follows the real artifact with accelerators to help filling the form out.
What I liked from the video sample:
The form looks like a document (since it is a document indeed)
It is supported by a summary of the form on the right to aid users to understand the final status of the information (completed or uncompleted...
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Usability Toolkit →
Templates, forms, and checklists ready to use for conducting usability tests, and user interviews.
“It takes almost as much creativity to understand a good idea, as to have it in...”
– Alan Kay
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[Book] Sketching User Experiences
This is a book about process and design. Divided into two parts, Bill Buxton engage you (designers, product managers, business executives, etc.) in a analysis about methods, processes and business careers from a historical point of view.
It brings other fields of the industry into the emerging User Experience with Sketching as the starting point of new ideas and as a way to lead the new product...
“Design is compromise”
– Bill Buxton, Sketching User Experiences - getting the design right and the right design
September 2011
17 posts
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Framework Theme for Drupal →
I have few time for discovering new stuff, but this is one project that could be worthwhile, does anyone try it?
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Should the Software Industry learn from other...
I’ll share with you an interesting reflection found in the book “Prototyping” by Todd Zaki Warfel regarding why we don’t expect prototyping as stage in the process in software development, regardeless the myth of the “return of investment”:
I think the first reason is that in software development, the emphasis is often placed on the development process and not...
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Design progressively
Sometimes it gets very difficult to make the right design decision, just because it’s a matter of time, because you can test that it is not working properly, and you think it’s better to change it.
If you, as me, are in that point, you will face a hard-to-face situation: re-design is needed.
Re-design doesn’t imply necessarily to change it all over again, sometimes it may...
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HTML5 & CSS3 for designers
“Start now”, with this statement Dan Cederholm, the author of “CSS3 for Web Desginers” book, encourages us to work with the evolution of web markup style. And his not alone, with the same spirit, Jeremy Keith show us the history and the ‘whys’ of the new version of HTML.
But, is it now the right time? Even if we don’t believe in the consensus, and the...
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ux heroes →
New toolkit for prototyping, diagramming and testing? I want to try it out
una mala idea →
what would happen if I would write again? leave it, that’s a bad idea, it’s better not to think
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Personas’ Remote Research
To build a persona can be tricky; you can just look how actors need months to put in the shoes of a their new characters. In UI design, personas’ creation is part of the analysis stage: they will be used to define requirements, to prepare user tests, to support decisions and to establish a meeting points between designers, developers, and stakeholders.
What is a persona?
Personas are fictitious...
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Pompitas de Málaga with Drupal
List of modules
Below you can see the list of the main modules used in combination with the Ubercart distribution provided by Drupal.
Ad
Administration menu
Content (CCK)
Content Permissions (CCK)
Node reference (CCK)
Chaos Tools (CTools)
Blog
Contact
Menu
Path
Ping
Profiles
Statistics
Taxonomy
Upload
Date API
Devel
Facebook social
Imagecache
Nodewords (Metatags)
Open graph...
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[istartup] books of interest
Some reading before starting up a business:
Drupal E-Commerce with Ubercart 2.x
Buylogy: Truth and Lies about why we buy
Lovely Package ideas blog
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[istartup] links of interest
Collection of links that we assessed to help us in the new store:
Ubercart Point of Sale
It is made with Ubercart by Drupal, thinking about the possibility of an integrated solution? I rejected the idea because I rather having two separate accounts and an non-conected cash register in the physical store.
Registered Cash: Olivetti
It is the most followed option for small stores, but again,...
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[istartup] the beginning
Months ago, my couple and me started up a new business in Málaga called Pompitas de Málaga Jabonería, since for us it was the best choice to run far far away from the unemployment evil.
Nowadays, the natural soap store continues its activity online, while I’m still working in my current company. For us, it is being an exciting experience taking into account the big dificulties we have to...
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Non-Violence conceptual map →
Non-violence conceptual map of the spanish social movement 15M