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You can choose any of the international standardized tests and on average, American children will always be stuck in the middle, compared with their peers in other countries. Leading the pack in test scores are the students in Scandinavian countries, China, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with American students always trailing behind. And every time a new batch of test scores are published, you can hear the tapping of keyboards as various authorities opine about the dire state of the American education system. A Vision We all recognize a need for massive change in American education, but is our ultimate goal to outrank other countries in assessment tests and to beat the Chinese in math scores? We need to look at the world around us and consider what global problems modern society will need our children to solve.
Teaching Kids Design Thinking, So They Can Solve The World's Biggest Problems | Co.Design
Awesome Pure CSS3 frame boxes (no images)
Well, this is our first css resource freebie, inspired in the recently released useful photo frames. We have designed this set of high quality boxes without using images, pure CSS3 advanced techniques. :) These boxes works in webkit browsers only (chrome, safari) for now, we will work to release a cross browser version soon. Usage is pretty simple, just content here And that’s all!swissmiss | Communication Crisis
I have reached a personal communication crisis. Too many channels. Too many messages. Too much noise. Too much guilt.
User-Centered Design (the focus of this section) is a well-established process that is used by IBM and many other organizations to deliver products that meet users' expectations. This process has been supplemented by the Outside-In Design approach (see the book on this subject), which brings a focus on business value, and by the Agile approach to development, which is a set of best practices that can be used to support iterative development to improve time to market and stakeholder value. What is User-Centered Design?
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Increasing numbers of websites are developing new types of user interface design, taking advantage of users' increasing levels of Internet-sophistication and faster connections. These new interfaces often allow users to view and manipulate large quantities of data. The point of this article is not to promote any of these user interface designs, but rather to offer them for the purposes of interest and inspiration . Although we have yet to run any large-scale usability testing on them, we consider each to have the potential (if used in the appropriate circumstances) to offer interesting possibilities for supporting users in the performance of their tasks.
Innovative user interface design
Jerome Domurat took some awesome sketchnotes of SketchCamp. Thanks for sharing! Thanks to everyone who came out to SketchCamp!
SketchCamp | Sketching the Future of UX – May 28, 2011
Designing Style Guidelines For Brands And Websites - Smashing Magazine
A website is never done. Everyone has worked on a project that changed so much after it launched that they no longer wanted it in their portfolio. One way to help those who take over your projects is to produce a style guide.
Effectively, IA helps us to make sense of a world where data is being generated at an unprecedented rate. Our ability to make sense of all this data is heavily influenced by how it’s accessed, organised and delivered. The numbers, words and pictures have to manifest as something you can interpret, understand and act upon. This is what turns raw data into information.
Site search: five ways to improve your information architecture | Econsultancy
The Cooper Journal: Passive magic, design of delightful experience
Why is Google Maps on a mobile device so amazing and delightful? Why does Word Lens feel so mind-blowing? Why does a Prius feel so good when you get in and go?
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User interface design
user_experience
web design & code Tools
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The UX Alliance is the global leader in user experience and user research. Since our foundation in 2005, we have completed 250+ global projects and tested over 15,000 participants.
User Experience Alliance | Global research made easy
Remove onClick delay on webkit for iPhone
Developing on the webkit for iPhone I encountered a curious delay on onClick events. It seems that the click is triggered with about 300 milliseconds delay. While this is unnoticeable on a standard web page, it can be annoying on a web application. Fortunately the click event can be overridden thus eliminating the delay. I assume that 300ms is the time frame Apple guesses an user needed to perform gestures, but there are situations where this delay can be really annoying.iOS Dev Center - Apple Developer
This complete developer toolset for creating Mac, iPhone, and iPad apps includes the Xcode IDE, performance analysis tools, iOS Simulator, and the latest Mac OS X and iOS SDKs.Developers
Google TV brings the power of Android and Google Chrome to television. The average American watches five hours of TV per day. Give them the apps to update their status, listen to music, watch web videos, and more.Safari extensions let developers add features to and customize the Safari browser. Read this document to learn how to: Create controls by adding buttons to the Safari toolbar, adding contextual menu items, creating extension bars, or injecting controls into webpages.
Safari Developer Library
January 20, 2011 by Luke Wroblewski At the BAYCHI Interaction Design event tonight, Rachel Hinman (Nokia) talked about where and how to begin designing for mobile in her presentation on Mobile UX Essentials . Here's my notes from her talk. Mobile is an interesting space but how do you get involved in it?
Mobile UX Essentials
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