Spec Work — Now 100% More Responsive
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Spec work has been around for a long time and it's not a secret that a lot of agencies or freelancers do accept this kind of work. A recent occasion brought a new kind of attention to this problem…
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Notes from "Redesigning Businesses" by Timothy Loo at UXHK 2013
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Many businesses are routinely failing to create meaningful experiences. The Experience Gap: How well does your organization connect? Common theories: Business is evil Business only cares about…
Notes from "Design Management And Continuous Design" by Josh Seiden at UXHK 2013
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The old reality was about delivering print products, getting them off to the printer and you're job was done. Not so with Software. Managing production: old reality Requirements Deadlines You need a…
Notes from "Lean UX Agility Through Cross-fund Collaboration" by Jeff Gothelf at UXHK 2013
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A tale of two cities and two teams in New York and Vancouver, sharing sketches via Skype. Both teams had ownership since they all participated Aligning corporate strategy with a UX focus There was no…
State of The Internet Report – Q3 2012
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Based on data collected by Ericsson, the volume of mobile data traffic doubled from the third quarter of 2011 to the third quarter of 2012, and grew 16% between the second and third quarter of 2012.…
Responsive Performance Benchmark Comparison
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Over the last year responsive web design has been going strong, many new ideas and tools have been popping up and there were (and still are) many lessons to be learned. One of the big challenges with…
Mobile Sign Up Forms Must Die!
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There's a lot of talk on how to improve mobile sign up forms, user experience, onboarding etc. These two articles are great reads when it comes to create better mobile sign up experiences and…
LTE Tethering on ThreeHK
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Last week it was finally time to upgrade my mobile plan to LTE after I've been using an iPhone 5 for about a month now. LTE is pretty fast and I was thinking about cancelling my home internet line,…
To An Awesome 2013
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A happy new year and to an awesome 2013, dear reader. The last year has been an interesting one. 2012 has been filled with a lot of good things, but it also hasn't been the smoothest year of them…
The Evolution of The Web
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I just came across one of my favourite websites again and it always impresses me, how much the web and its technologies have grown, especially over the last few years. Rather old, but rather good:…
Slides from My Talk "Open Device Labs for A Better User Experience' at The Hive in Hong Kong
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StartupsHK's first Mobilliance event was a big success and I was invited to be part of the kickoff event, speaking about the Open Device Lab Hong Kong. Here are the slides from a rather brief talk…
The Mobile Factbook 2012
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While doing some research on mobile statistics, I found this free Mobile Factbook. This pocket book provides you with a brief snapshot of the worldwide mobile industry at the start of 2012, written…
The Web We Lost
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This is an awesome, must-read article about the evolution of the web and what has gone missing over the last years. If you have been on the web for more than 10 years, you can remember and relate to…
jQuery Performance Issues With Show/Hide
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The other day I had to work on an order form which I needed to hide and show groups of rows depending on group selection. The first approach was to just use jQuery's show/hide functions. The table…
Notes On My Talk "Responsive Web Design & Workflows for Today's Web' At The Hive In Hong Kong
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Last night I spoke at the first event of The UX-Men event series – the new Startup Mondays – organised by IXDA HK and StartupsHK, held at a fantastic co-working space for those in creative industries…