Posts tagged tool

Card sorting app

I was trying explore different possibilities of CSS3 (next version of CSS) features targeted to beautification of presentation. I have build a little card sorting app(just basic stuffs) using jQuery and few CSS3 stuffs…
View App in Quesb Labs
NB: you have download the attached file, unzip it and open the file cards.html. Check in [...]

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Design Guides List

I often refer to design guides by well known companies to create design guides for the project I work on.
Here are the list of few very well know company design guides , which provides very rich information on how to write a successful guideline and very of course some very good resources about design best [...]

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Compress multiple CSS files to one

I found this small PHP script by Reinhold Weber which can quickly compress multiple CSS files to one compressed CSS file.
header(‘Content-type: text/css’);
 
ob_start(“compress”);
 
function compress($buffer) {
/* remove comments */
$buffer = preg_replace(‘!/\*[^*]*\*+([^/][^*]*\*+)*/!’, ”, $buffer);
/* remove tabs, spaces, newlines, etc. */
$buffer = str_replace(array(“\r\n”, [...]

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Some links for light reading …

W3C has launched new website – http://www.w3.org/
Usability Testing vs. Expert Reviews ( UXMatters article by Janet M Six)
New prototyping + wire framing + usability testing tool on the block – Pidoco

Review by 90percent of everything
Review by Steffen Zörnig

New UX Q&A site – http://uxexchange.com/. It runs the same software that powers Stack Overflow.
Interesting article by Jens [...]

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The Power of Personas

Brad Colbow created an interesting comic strip for ThinkVitamin explaining the use of personas and how it affects the design decision and data gathering techniques.

Some other interesting persona links
http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Personas
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/building-a-data
http://www.productpersonas.com/weblog/persona_examples/

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Coding for Mobile

I was experimenting for writing webpages for mobile sites. I was looking for some guideline and resources.I will try to document what I found.
First what found is for mobile doctype should be used for mobile site.
Two options found
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN”
“http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd”>
or
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.2//EN”
“http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd”>
No they are almost similar except [...]

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