http://mediaprojects.biz This blog is about running startups, web development, system administration, testing procedures, software usability, psychology, etc., etc. what makes life and work easier or more profitable. Sun, 18 May 2008 13:29:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am sure you will find useful an article Sign Up Forms Must Die written by folks from of A List Apart. Luke Wroblewski talks about making user registration process on the website more smooth and, thus, more user-friendly. First, the user should try your web service to figure out ... http://mediaprojects.biz/2008/05/18/make-user-registration-process-more-smooth/ There isn’t a conversation in our studio that doesn’t take place using a whiteboard. While the reasons for that are fodder for another post, or perhaps a group therapy session, this new interactive whiteboard concept certainly caught my eye. Johnny Chung Lee, an HCI Researcher at Carnegie Mellon, recently posted some ... http://mediaprojects.biz/2008/03/23/multi-point-interactive-whiteboard-using-the-wiimote/ Blog Comment Form Design Showcase Comment Design Showcase Typography for Headlines http://mediaprojects.biz/2008/03/18/headlines-and-comments-showcase/ Yesterday I had a 1-day introductory course to TRIZ and Systematic Innovation for Business & Management leaded by Valeri Souchkov, a Dutch expert in TRIZ. Translating from Russian, TRIZ (Teoriya Resheniya Izobretatelskikh Zadatch) means Theory of Resolving (or Solving) Inventor's Tasks. I would recommend TRIZ, and especially xTRIZ, to every professional, ... http://mediaprojects.biz/2008/03/15/triz-and-systematic-innovation-for-business-management/ http://mediaprojects.biz/2008/02/01/troika-cloud-digital-sculpture-for-british-airways/ Bill Scott clued me in to this interesting first post from Theresa Neil on two design paradigms for handling large amounts of data: The Seek Paradigm: Have the user ask for what they want. The Show Paradigm: Display everything up front, and let the user explore and organize it. “The first is ... http://mediaprojects.biz/2008/02/01/seek-or-show-two-design-paradigms-for-lots-of-data/ Some important news if you send to a lot of mobile subscribers, or view emails on your own Blackberry. While existing Blackberry devices and software only support plain text email rendering, RIM has announced that an upcoming software update will add HTML and rich text support to the platform. HTML and ... http://mediaprojects.biz/2008/01/29/html-email-coming-soon-on-the-blackberry/ The purpose of this page is to demonstrate how we measure the audience of a web 2.0 site. As a reminder, a web 2.0 site has one of the following two following characteristics: visitors share information the content of a page is refreshed piece by piece (Ajax technologies) This page has both characteristics. http://mediaprojects.biz/2008/01/29/web-20-audience-measurement-demonstration/ There’s a really interesting thread on sla.ckers.org talking about bypassing some fairly rigid anti-XSS vectors that allow nothing that looks like HTML. Specifically it doesn’t allow <[A-Za-z] which does limit the vectors pretty substantially. In the process of working through the attack vector Hong mentioned that an attack could surface ... http://mediaprojects.biz/2008/01/28/httphackersorgblogcategorywebappseccaptcha/ British Airways is planning to launch its new US-EU subsidiary airline "OpenSkies" with daily flights from New York to Brussels and Paris. The airline will launch in June 2008 with one Boeing 757 aircraft that will operate from New York to either Brussels or Paris Charles de Gaulle airports. A ... http://mediaprojects.biz/2008/01/27/ba-launched-a-blog/