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Thu Tran

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design - 2 views

  • visions matter. Visions give people a direction and inspire people to act, and a group of inspired people is the most powerful force in the world
  • The most important thing to realize about the future is that it's a choice. People choose which visions to pursue, people choose which research gets funded,
  • be inspired by the untapped potential of human capabilities. Don't just extrapolate yesterday's technology and then cram people into it.
Thu Tran

How To Become A Web Design Expert - Smashing Magazine - 2 views

  • being an expert is more than about getting people to listen. If that is all you can manage, then they will see through this shallow desire and not give you the status that you believe you deserve
  • design that lessons learned four years ago do not apply today. But I’m not convinced that is the case. In my experience, although technology changes, people do not. The majority of unexpected issues that arise when developing a website relates either to human error or to some element of user experience
  • Too many of the people I worked with coasted through the years with no passion for their work. Without passion, they had no desire to learn new things or push boundaries.
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  • I believe that an almost obsessive passion for Web design is required to be a true expert.
  • Succeeding in your chosen career and becoming a true expert requires that you fail not just once or twice, but again and again.
  • Being willing to fail is a sign of maturity, bravery and a desire to do better.
  • Those who are never seen to fail are either too timid
  • to try, for fear of public ridicule, or simply do not desire success enough to endure the sting of failure.
  • The first step to being recognized as an expert is to stop insisting that you are one
  • The truly great have little to prove,
  • Becoming an expert has to be about more than having an ego trip. Rather, it should always be about serving others. You become an expert so that you can do a better job for your clients, provide more value to your organization and help others establish best practice in your industry. Ultimately, if all you want is to be loved and respected, you will never achieve your aim. People can detect that kind of narcissism a mile away and will dismiss you as vain.
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    Some philosophical points on what it takes to be perceived as an expert
Jordan Wood

How Real People Will Use Windows 8 | .NET Zone - 1 views

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    A lot of people have voiced their concerns over Microsoft's use of "touch-based" UI with Windows 8. In an attempt to gauge how the "average" desktop user will engage and react to Windows 8's Metro design, lockergnome had his dad sit down and use Windows 8 without any previous instruction.
Chad Kipling

self improvement - What is the single most effective thing you did to improve your prog... - 0 views

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    A forum post asking on ways to improve coding skills.
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    Working with people far smarter than myself Always listening to what others have to say, regardless if they're junior, intermediate, senior or guru. job title doesn't mean anything. Learning other frameworks/languages, and seeing how they do things, and compare that to stuff that I already know Reading about patterns, best practices, and then examining my old stuff and applying those patterns where necessary Pair programming Add Sticky Note | Remove Deciding TO be a 'Jack-of-all-Trades' never stop learning. Read code written by different people. Write documentation for code written by other people.
Thu Tran

9 Tips for Emailing Important People - 2 views

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    Great tips on what to think about when sending an email
Thu Tran

Why Mobile Design Should Never Be an Afterthought - 3 views

  • by 2013, more people will access websites through mobile phones than through desktop computers.
  • mobile users are focused
  • . Smartphone users are transaction-oriented
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  • tablets. They’re focused on a broader experience
  • It’s more important to measure functionality than pageviews.
  • Tablets are leisure surfing devices people use while lounging at hom
  • Smartphone users don’t want to be overloaded by content. Usually they have an objective
  • tablets
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    Some design principles to keep in mind when designing for smartphone and tablets
Melissa Kendall

Swiss Govt: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal | TorrentFreak - 0 views

  • around a third of Swiss citizens over 15 years old download pirated music, movies and games from the Internet. However, these people don’t spend less money as a result because the budgets they reserve for entertainment are fairly constant.
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    Huge success for pirates =P
Thu Tran

15 Google Chrome Extensions for People Who Build Websites - 4 views

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    Useful Chrome plugins including an Eye Dropper!
Thu Tran

The Rise of Developeronomics - Forbes - 2 views

  • The one absolutely solid place to store your capital today — if you know how to do it –  is in software developers’ wallets.
  • people who can invest in developers, developers, and everybody else
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    Farshid posted this on Facebook, but in case anyone missed it, it's a good read on how Developers are going to rule the world
Trevor Sweetland

The Future Of Social TV Is Now - 2 views

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    New(-ish) website lets people "check-in" to the tv shows they're watching, get free stickers.
Matt Haines

Stylebot Addon - 2 views

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    A Chrome.. widget? Addon? thingy? A Chrome thingy that lets you quickly create and apply custom CSS to websites. You can also use http://stylebot.me to share your custom redesigns with the world (or in this case, other people who know about stylebot).
Thu Tran

Writing CSS For Others - Smashing Magazine - 2 views

  • always code like you’re working in a team, even when you’re not
  • Write comments like you’re talking to a rubber duck! Good comments take care of 99% of what you hand over and — more importantly —  take care of your documentation. Your code should be the documentation. Comments are also an excellent way to show off. Ever wanted to tell someone how awesome a bit of your code is but never found the chance? This is that chance! Explain how clever it is, and just wait for people to read it. Egos aside, though, comments do force you to write nicer code. I’ve found that writing extensive comments has made me a better developer. I write cleaner code, because writing comments reminds me that I’m intending for others to read the code
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    A discussion on how to write CSS for other developers and why it's important
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