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Creative & Technical Development

• The Romeo & Juliet Effect by 90 Percent Of Everything
• The Myth Of The Page Fold by CX Partners
• Adding Design To An Agile Development Process by Andrew Chen
• Product Design Debt Versus Technical Debt by Andrew Chen

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Nov 23 – Nov 29, 2009 »

Amazon Web Service’s Flexible Payments Service (FPS) allows you to accept payments on your website. It supports the processing of payments using credit cards, bank accounts and Amazon Payments account balances.

Read more about Will Amazon Flexible Payments ever reach Europe? »

Creative & Technical Development

• 6 Things Video Games Can Teach Us About Web Usability by Atlantic BT
• First Do No Harm by UX Matters
• Untangling Brand & Customer Experience by Adaptive Path
• 3 Ways To Use Content To Engage Your Audience by ClickZ Experts
• Usability Testing On A Budget by UX Matters
• CSS Box Model by W3C Recommendations
• Super-Light HTML Prototyping by Konigi
• The Ideal CMS by Digital Media Buzz

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Nov 16 – Nov 22, 2009 »

The truth is some hosting providers are great, and some are downright awful.

We primarily use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for our hosting. Even though AWS works for us, it isn’t a suitable option for everyone. So we often have to deal with other hosting providers on behalf of our clients.

Whenever I have to deal with a hosting providers’ sales reps’ it dawns on me how hard it must be for people with limited technical experience to get their money’s worth.

I recently reviewed a client’s hosting set-up. Their requirements were straightforward and would have been fulfilled by a decent Virtual Private Server (VPS) costing around £50-60 per month.

Read more about Are you getting value for money from your hosting provider? »

Creative & Technical Development

• User Stories: A Strategic Design Tool by Johnny Holland Magazine
• Matt Webb: Design Is In Your Hands by UX Week 2009
• The Content Delusion by Ideas On Ideas
• The Internet Is Killing Storytelling by Times Online
• Content Strategy For The Web by ThinkVitamin
• Ultimate Guide To Grid-Based Web Design: Techniques & Tools by Noupe
• How To Cultivate Or Dissolve A Community by UX Booth
• Review Of UserTesting.com by UX Booth

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Nov 7 – Nov 15, 2009 »

Creative & Technical Development

• Agile User Experience by Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox
• How To Recover From Project Failures by Adaptive Path
• What The Hell Have We Done To Design? by DMI
• The Future Of Interface Design by UX Booth
• Optimising Internal Knowledge Sharing by UX Matters
• Smart.fm Developing A Great Experience by Adaptive Path
• Steve Smith On HTML 5 & CSS 3 by Think Vitamin
• Sketchy Axure Widget Library by Ascentium

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Nov 2 – Nov 6, 2009 »

Creative & Technical Development

• A Plea To All Creatives: Stop Going To Work by Fast Company
• Introducing User Centred Web Design by Computer World
• User Experience: What It Is And How To Get Some by Computer World
• User Experience In Action by Computer World
• On Authenticity by Interactions Magazine
• When Security Gets In The Way by Interactions Magazine
• The Authenticity Problem by Interactions Magazine
• Dan Rubin On Web Typography by Think Vitamin
• 10 UX Blogs You Should Be reading by UX Booth

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2009 »