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Duty Calls
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on February 19, 2008
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Kevin Fox of Gmail & FriendFeed on User Experience Design
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on June 01, 2008
From 2003 to January 2008, Kevin Fox worked as a user experience designer at Google, designing such products as Gmail, Google Calendar, and the second version of Google Reader. He’s currently working at FriendFeed. I met Kevin for a three-session instant messenger chat interview(edited for clarity, and both parties had the chance to make minor rewordings later on; see more about the...
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The Internet FAQ from 2085
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 19, 2008
What was the internet?The internet and the world web was a computing system to transfer human information. Scientists have based its beginning to the years 1920 to 1940.What was electromail?Electromail was another transport protocol to transfer human information, but it was quickly discontinued as it caused misunderstandings due to lack of correctly representing emotions.What were world web...
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Microsoft researchers make me cry
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble on February 13, 2008
It’s not often that I see software that really changes my world. It’s even rarer that I see software that I know will change the world my sons live in. I can count those times pretty easily. The first time I saw an Apple II in 1977. When Richard Cameron showed me Apple’s Hypercard. Microsoft’s Excel. Aldus’ Pagemaker. And something called Photoshop, all in his West Valley Community...
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Beautiful And Original Product Designs
via Smashing Magazine by Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz on May 25, 2008
Successful product design manages to reveal useful functionality beyond its appealing form. No matter how excellent a design looks like, most customers aren’t likely to spend money on something they won’t be able to use. On the other hand, most people are likely to buy something useful despite the design it has.Yet the key to a truly successful product design lies in designer’s ability to...
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Writing a Book in Google Docs
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on January 22, 2008
Currently, my editor Brian Jepson and I are collaboratively writing the book (tentatively titled) Google Office Hacks by O'Reilly using Google Docs. I wanted to outline the process we came up with, and maybe it's helpful for you too for certain needs.The outlineThe base document we're working on is the outline. It's a linked table of contents which helps us to organize the broad...
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J-walking with Reader
via Official Google Reader Blog by Mihai Parparita on February 06, 2008
Google Reader Keyboard (inspiration)Google Reader is well-known for its keyboard shortcuts. When going through thousands of blog posts, news items, photos, etc. a day, it's important to do this as efficiently as possible. Many users find that using the keyboard is one way of accomplishing that goal.The "j" key (which takes you to the next item) is perhaps the most well-known keyboard...
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