Posted by Steve Martin on May 21, 2009 | 0 comments
Lest you question the importance/validity of user testing, listen to this: I was recently listening to the Boagworld podcast (great podcast, by the way) and they mentioned a conversation that one of the guys had with Jason Fried (of 37 Signals fame). 37 Signals has a whole range of online services, all of which have a “Free” option and/or a “xx Days Free Trial”...
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Posted by Steve Martin on Apr 7, 2009 | 0 comments
The other day one of my coder buddies and I were having a discussion about getting a site to look right in IE, and he says to me, “Semantics trumps presentation.”
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WHAT?!!
Maybe I’m missing something here, but when I go to a website, I’m looking at the PRESENTATION, not the code. Yeah yeah, good code is important, yadda yadda, but let’s take off our geekster...
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