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More Fun with Users... from Digg

Here are two bits from the user registration process at Digg that makes them a little more human. and Posted to Design and tagged as digg , registration , ui , fun Similar Posts OCS 2007 - On Crowdsourcing Are You Ready for Smarter Spenders Bursting Your Bubble? Creating a New Breed of PMs at Telligent

Posted to Josh Ledgard (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-11-2008
Smile

I don't know why, but lately I'm a sucker for things like this... Posted to Design and tagged as ui , text Similar Posts Anti-Permission Marketing - Why I stopped using Windows Live Mail They advertise the hell out of scrabble What I'm Reading and Writing - Testing a WLW Plugin

Posted to Josh Ledgard (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-17-2008
The voice of your product or community

Something that's never really discussed in the visual age is the voice of your product or Community. Words are just as important as important as the visual design and layout. The language of your product educates, informs, and sets the tone of the environment for the user. If your software sounds...

Posted to Josh Ledgard (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-16-2008
Creating a New Breed of PMs at Telligent

Don't tell my dev team's but today is the first day I've felt like I could catch my breath since taking on the challenge of building up a Program Manager foundation at Telligent. That means that it's a good time to talk about what I've been working on as a way of looking back and...

Posted to Josh Ledgard (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-11-2008
Surreal HDR From 1 RAW Image

http://www.hdrsoft.com/support/faq_photomatix.html#raw I realized after reading the above FAQ that using a single RAW and converting it to a dng can be used inside of photomatix. Previously, I had tried creating different exposures from a single dng and...( read more )

Posted to Wyatt Preul (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-20-2008
Is your application "ready to rock"?

I love this touch of personality... especially considering this tool is made for something that's traditionally boring...

Posted to Josh Ledgard (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-09-2008
Defining user perception of social applications

I’ve been thinking about the differences between developing social and traditional applications. What’s the difference, for example, between developing Word and Facebook? The obvious difference is that one is social and one isn’t. But what does that really mean? It means is that the user experience in...

Posted to Josh Ledgard (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-01-2008
Goals Really Do Motivate People

I love little things like this. It seems silly, but goals have been proven to motivate people. They don't work alone, but when combined with other compelling expereinces goals can put your user's average time on site through the roof. A recent example of this is what you see in Linked in. I hate...

Posted to Josh Ledgard (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-31-2008
Portland Trip Pictures

My wife and I recently visited some friends of ours in Portland, OR. It was our first time to this city, and my first time as far west as we were. During this trip we did a lot of hiking, something Portlanders tend to do quite often. During our hikes...( read more )

Posted to Wyatt Preul (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-22-2008
Progression of Tonemapping and HDRI

So I wanted to see what it looks like to take a single image and change the exposure on it and then merge the resulting images as an HDR. Here is the original picture that I took sometime around Thanksgiving on 07' on the steps of the Philadelphia...( read more )

Posted to Wyatt Preul (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-02-2008

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