On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:10, Jamie Bresner wrote:
> What should I take into account when considering adding "Get Adobe
> Acrobat" next to a PDF link on a web page. Is this necessary?
First question that comes to my mind: is the PDF download itself
really THIS necessary, actually? If the content
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:16, Francis Norton wrote:
> We often have to provide the Terms and Conditions of financial products as a
> PDF for compliance. Anybody know a better way of them to the user with
> controlled content and format?
What degree of control do you need beyond what's offered by
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:20, James Page wrote:
> "of those 9,199 visitors, and only 2,572 had "Acrobat", 9,856 had
>> Javascript, 8,135 had Flash
>
>
> Sorry slip of finger. It was 8,856 had Javascript.
>
> But it would be interesting to see if others have similar low numbers for
> Reader. On o
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:12, Francis Norton wrote:
> "Well, your honour, I've no idea how it happened, but using *my* stylesheets
> the paragraph about having to pay a pound of flesh for each day the loan was
> overdue was displayed in light grey on dirty white, using these funny
> wingdings cha
Dear anonymous,
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:35, wrote:
> My favored behavior is to remove commands which are not available.
> (...)
> But in some cases i think it would be better to deactivating the
> commands which are not available or mixed the both bevaviors.
It depends. If the actual context
Maybe a little bit off-topic: May I ask what are your main reasons to
settle exclusively on Drupal? I recently talked with a friend of mine
who had his main business site (a large German music platform &
community) recently relaunched based on Drupal. Which turned out to be
significantly harder and
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 06:01, rohitkulthia wrote:
> Hi, I need to design a portfolio page very fast.the page should show
> that we work close to apple standards as well as the portfolio
> products need to be highlighted. http://www.cadile.com/portfolio.html
> heres the link...Looking forward for
Brian,
you might have already hinted yourself at an IMHO highly possible
source of your troubles by labeling your process as 'supposedly agile'
etc. Apart from the regular potential pitfalls of agile processes[1]:
an 'agile' process that isn't will consequently in most cases inherit
the type of pr
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 21:41, Cian OConnor wrote:
> If the situation is one in which the user has simply lost interest in
> the original task, then what they'll be looking for is a route back to
> whatever they were doing previously. In which case "cancel" is confusing
> and meaningless (what will
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 16:54, Kim Bieler wrote:
> I've noticed that if you click on an external link in Facebook or LinkedIn
> (and other sites) it sometimes loads the new site in a frame below a header
> bar that's branded for the originating site.
>
> What I'm wondering is:
>
> 1. Is there a nam
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 18:39, Jordan, Courtney wrote:
> Does anyone else have ideas on how to make that accessible for color-blind
> users?
Maybe well distinguishable patterns instead of or combined with colours.
- S.
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Hi Jack,
I'd like to throw in (rather rough and unordered):
* Designing for sustainability (one could argue that good design has
always considered & done this)
* Design as an agent for economic, political, and social change (see
Marc's reply, as well)
* Design Thinking (also already hinted at b
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:59, Ali Naqvi wrote:
> Time and time again I am being told that a user centered design
> development process isn't needed in our company since we do not make
> consumer products.
This is an obvious strawman’s argument (one may call it even simply
bullshit). Apart from ‘u
BTW: why the two different search boxes?
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the heated nit-picking discussion developing after the quite innocent
original post comes slightly as a surprise to me. And a rather
annoying one, that is.
For crying out loud:
We're here to solve problems with/add value to products, services, etc.
In other, mo
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 14:36, Kristen wrote:
> What is your favourite font and why?
Kristen, choosing a font should *not* be a matter of whatever one
personally prefers, but of what one wants to *communicate*. And to
whom.
> Do you think small changes in a font will affect perception of a
> brand
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 14:58, pauric wrote:
> "Do you think small changes in a font will affect perception of a
> brand in one way or another?"
>
> Depends on your target audience. The only people who notice such
> things are the people who notice such things
I heavily disagree. People might not
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 23:32, Paul Trumble wrote:
> Actually we did an a/b test with an auto-complete feature, with disastrous
> results. Personally I think the lack of an agreed upon vocabulary killed
> it. While you know what your high school is called, there might be 25 ways
> to name your job
> sensible/ business issues here.)
Oops, false friend… s/sensible/sensitive/
I hope, they're sensible, nonetheless ;-)
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 16:17, Juan Lanus wrote:
> What I did was to make my autocompleter search not only the displayed item
> descriptions but also related keywords associated with the "official" names,
> that were not displayed.
That's what I meant by ‘search within semantic fields’ ;-)
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