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Archive for January, 2009

How Spotify have changed the way I listen to music

January 30th, 2009

A while I go I wrote an article called Spotify is right on the spot where I described a service called Spotify that let’s you listen to music over the Internet. I was impressed of how well it worked and of how good the music player was. I’ve been using Spotify for about four months [...]

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Different approaches to communicate uX design

January 29th, 2009

Peter Morville at Semantic Studios has compiled an extensive list of ways to create deliverables to communicate uX designs. He writes about this in User Experience Deliverables. The article contains a list of 20 techniques with links to further reading on each. To make it easier to find suitable techniques he also made a Treasure [...]

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The Design of Future Things [Book review]

January 24th, 2009

I’ve read a few books by Don Norman before and they have all been a great source of inspiration and full of “Aha” moments. This book doesn’t quite reach that same level, but I still find it an interesting read. The book is basically about how to design intelligent things. Some call it ambient computing [...]

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Handling Large Amounts of Markers in Google Maps

January 13th, 2009

To use markers in Google Maps is fairly trivial, at least when you have a reasonable amount of them. But once you have more than a few hundred of them, performance quickly starts to degrade. In this article I will show you a few approaches to speed up performance. I’ve also put together a test [...]

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Most popular articles of 2008

January 7th, 2009

2008 was the first year of this blog. It has been really interesting and it’s encouraging to see that the number of readers is steadily increasing. Thanks to all of you who has read and commented on my articles. A big reason for me running this blog is to learn more about the stuff I [...]

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