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3oheme — Just some random stuff from a webdev

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Please, have fun with your camera

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Top IT software companies using carousels

Very interesting.

I think that the point is not about usability, or people not reaching the content, or any kind of UX issue. Is a business issue.

As someone said in ux.stackexchange.com:

"Carousels are effective at being able to tell people in Marketing/Senior Management that their latest idea is now on the Home Page"

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Using 6 thinking hats technique for retro

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Flying with Monarch — things to remember

Why have I not received my tickets? — Monarch are a ticket-less airline. All you need to check in is your booking reference along with your passport or a valid EU national identity card (supported by any other relevant documentation such as visas).

Online checking — If you don't want to pay for a pre-allocated seat, you can still check-in for free at the airport and you will be allocated a seat at random.

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Is this the future we want?

First, see this great post of Jack Morgan, showing a beautiful UI design concept extending Google Glass.

And after that, have a look at Sight, a futuristic short film.

How do you feel?

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Amy Jo Kim approach to the player type model #gamification

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RTOTD — random retweet of the day

@xenophin: "arguing with an engineer is a lot like wrestling in the mud with a pig. after a few hours, you realize that he likes it" #devslovebacon

link to tweet

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The seven stages of action — The Design of Everyday Things, Donald A. Norman, 1988

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Mary Poppins was ahead her time

Moved to 3oheme — Mary Poppins and gamification

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I've got the coolest retrogame mug ever! n_n

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Empezar una carrera IT en el Reino Unido

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let's put it bigger:

The problem is not the scroll parallax, not the CSS3 or HTML5 video or PNG24 or whatever, the problem is not that the website is responsive or it should not use jQuery.

Let’s not blame the tools.

85MB and 464 requests.

85MB for a website :-(

Have a look for yourself — oakley airbrake MX

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My 8 personal tricks to improve productivity

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Random idea of the day

Creating a Northern Quarter version of coffitivity.com, featuring places like Takk, Home Sweet Home, North Tea Power, Nexus and so on :-)

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The Old Sun Inn — Buxton

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Is UX the new SEO?

Do you remember those 'good' old times, when SEO was the big boom?

You could start your own business and earn lots of money just with those three magic letters. Those were crazy times, with hundreds of SEO experts and gurus empowering meta tags, link farms, buzzwords and other stuff.

Just saying "If don't have a good SEO strategy no one will visit your website" and everyone was scary enough to give you god-like powers :-P

Obviously there were also good SEO, content-focused, w3c compliant and no-flash, but hey, it was hard to find one on that kind!

Now let's fast forward 10 years to the present and here comes UX, the next big thing.

I'm afraid — very afraid! — that UX is going to held the next war between good and bad professionals :-( mostly because I can see some similarities between SEO and UX:

Both try to understand something no one really knows: human brain and Google PageRank are a black box impossible to understand.

Both are a must in your company — not having a UX/SEO will make no one will use/find your website, you will lose money and god will kill a cat

Both involve a lot of common-sense.

Also, both have their own language, easy to mix with bullshit

What do you think? Am I wrong or should we start creating an Ethical Code right now?

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Use open source software in preference to proprietary or closed source alternatives, in particular for operating systems, networking software, Web servers, databases and programming languages.

United Kingdom Government Guidelines https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/making-software/open-source.html