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FAIL OFTEN: Ideas that challenge the status quo. Proposals. Brainstorms. Concepts that open doors.
FAIL FREQUENTLY: Prototypes. Spreadsheets. Sample ads and copy.
FAIL OCCASIONALLY: Working mockups. Playtesting sessions. Board meetings.
FAIL RARELY: Interactions with small groups of actual users and customers.
FAIL NEVER: Keeping promises to your constituents.
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When given an important assignment, there are some unspoken instructions. They are unspoken because of the assumption that they are so obvious, they need not be said. That is often a dangerous assumption. The unspoken instructions are:
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If you were looking for a message thread on Apple's support forums pointing to Consumer Reports' article 'not recommending' the iPhone 4, it's not there any more. Apple's support forum moderators deleted the thread. Bing cached it.
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Breaking news: The Guardian once again involved in committing a data awesome! As before, the UK newspaper graced developers with a really cool piece of information published on the web: all the World Cup 2010 statistics as an Excel Sheet.
Now, the easiest way to play with this data is to use YQL, so I simply took a copy of the information and shared it as a CSV document on Google Docs.
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The following demo was made using a variety of CSS techniques. Rounded corners, shadows, gradients, rgba, pseudo-elements, and transforms are just some of them. A lot of these were generated by helpful tools, such as westciv’s tools and Border Radius. By combining these techniques, you can create rich graphics with just a few lines of code. Here are a few examples.
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This is yet, another attempt at killing CAPTCHA, based on HTML, CSS and a little touch of JQuery magic.
What we're trying to pull here is an alternative to the current CAPTCHA solution, which is inherently inaccesible to people with disabilities, despite the best efforts put forth by initiatives such as the popular reCAPTCHA or the more recent nuCAPTCHA.
An article by @lukew titled "A Sliding Alternative to CAPTCHA?" published on July 1st, 2010 introduced the idea of the slider approach to replace CAPTCHA, which we thought was brilliant. We decided to push this idea further and try to come up with a solution that would be device-independent, cross-browser and more importantly, totally compatible with assistive technologies. The goal here being to make sure it would be accessible to people with disabilities using assistive software or to people using touch screen devices such as the iPhone or the iPad.
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Keith Richards at 65, Do you really think he gets up in the morning, looks in the mirror, and says “Keith, you marvelous looking rock star, don’t you ever die?” He might have already died, don’t you think?
Ringo Starr turns 70 today. Tell me he doesn’t look better now than he did in 1964. It might help that he reads my friend Dak’s hip MagnificentBastard website for looking and staying young.
In three years, there’s no chance that Ringo will look like my favorite Okie from Muskogee Merle “Yes I Am” Haggard, now 73.
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ast year, I looked into the way companies are using Enhanced Facebook Pages as a way to beef up the branding and interactivity available with Facebook’s default Page settings. On my company blog, I explored the enhanced Pages of big companies such as Starbucks and The Gap. And I also made a list of ten third-party applications that you could use to enhance Facebook Pages, based on what was available at the time. In that vein, below I’ve identified ten more third-party apps that can be easily plugged into your Facebook Page to offer a little extra functionality and interactivity.
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