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Lean Software Development Video Mary Poppendieck

~4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
Here are some great examples i jotted down when watching Mary Poppendieck’s presentation at Google: “Competing on the basis of speed“...

Dilemma — Updated Numbers or Long Response Times

~4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
Paypal showed me this splash screen when logging in: I think this is a useful design pattern that can be valuable to most of our clients dealing with time-sensitive...

Rails Localization Plugin Release Version 0.9

~4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
Just a quick note to tell that I released version 0.9 of the L10n-simplified plugin. It has been a year since last release, but I had nohurry since the...

Bad Usability Calendar 2008

~4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
My Norwegian friend Eidar just wrote to inform me that their company (Netlife Research) has finally released Bad Usability Calendar 2008. Last year, the...

Sharepoint 2007, Accessibility, and Impossible UI Customization

~4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
Emil Stenström’s recent “Sharepoint 2007 from an interface developer’s view” is definitely worth reading if you care about webstandards...

Interaction Design: Send To a Friend

~4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
For a work project I had to make a “send email to a friend”, and looked for inspiration the following places. I’m not commenting it here...

Selling Ruby, Rails, and Agile Project Management

~4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
My colleague Mads and myself made an internal “sales show” for the way we use Ruby on Rails to deliver web projects that are fast, small, agile prototypes...

Data Visualisation

~4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
What a treasury of old and new maps, images, graphs — all you can imagine.  http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/milestone/ (found via wikipedia: information...

Design Guide or HTML Markup Guide

~4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
At a recent project, there was a requirement to describe the CSS used on a site, as a documentation, other developers could use. We decided to go a bit...

3 Simple Usability Tips For Developers

almost 4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
It takes a lifetime to become an expert on the usability field. Many developers may be interested in creating usable, successful applications. But the entry...