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Archive for July, 2008

I’m going on vacation

July 13th, 2008

I’m taking a break for the following three weeks and is going on vacation with my girlfriend. We are going to hike in the mountains in the north of Sweden for a week and then rent a car and drive up to Northcape, the northern tip of Europe. If the weather allows we’re going on [...]

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5 essential books on usability

July 10th, 2008

I’ve compiled a short list of book on usability and UX design that I’ve found both valuable and inspiring. All of these books have given me important insights and helped me to better understand the different aspects of the area. I’ve listed them in the order I think one should read them and I’ve also [...]

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I miss X-Ray

July 9th, 2008

I really hope that Stuart Robertsson, the maker of the ingenious Firefox Add-on X-Ray, updates it to work with Firefox 3 soon! I don’t think I’ve realized how much I’ve relied on this add-on in my daily work until now that it doesn’t work anymore.

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No undo? Redo!

July 4th, 2008

Why is it that web apps very often lack something that we take for granted in most window applications, namely the undo function? Is it because it’s not needed? Is it too hard to implement or is it simply just because it’s something that developers don’t think is needed? The most common solution to prevent [...]

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