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Just a Prototype Away from Fame and Fortune: ProtoHack brings a shellfish delivery app to life

June 17, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

I’ve had millions of ideas in my day. Most of them are terrible, but I’ve always lived with the frustration of not being able to realize them beyond mere conception. Sure, I could tell them to people, put that’s just air. I could write them down or try sketching them out, but that’s just chicken-scratch. I want something tangible to hold in my hands; something that functions; something aesthetically pleasing; something I can let others interact with. I am not a coder, developer, or hacker. I don’t know much about business plans or startups. I consider myself an above average user of Microsoft Word, but I don’t think I’ve ever been able to connect to a printer without major …

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Just a Prototype Away from Fame and Fortune: ProtoHack brings a shellfish delivery app to life

Nothing to fear in MAPI over HTTP

June 17, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Microsoft’s decision to move away from the time-honoured RPC interprocess connection mechanism and replace it with a new approach where Outlook clients can use a new protocol called MAPI over HTTP to connect to Exchange 2013 SP1 has caused a bit of fuss and bother. On reflection, this is a pretty normal situation in the technical sphere where, even though technologists might like to think of themselves as being open to change, transitions of this nature are sometimes unwelcome because of the fear, doubt, and uncertainty that the unknown generates. It wasn’t for nothing that IBM was famous for the ability of their salesforce to use FUD to influence customer discussions for years; so much so that buying the nice safe choice became a well-…

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Nothing to fear in MAPI over HTTP

Microsoft Brings Penny Arcade Artist To An Engineering Team To Work Out Surface Pro 3 Issues

June 17, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Microsoft is gearing up to begin shipping its Surface Pro 3 tablet, and many have already had a chance to test out the latest in tablet/laptop hybrids. One early tester is Penny Arcade’s Mike Krahulik (aka Gabe) who was a huge fan of the Surface Pro 2, because with the stylus, it was an awesome digital artist tool for hand-drawn creations. Gabe wasn’t so impressed with the Surface Pro 3. He said it introduced some lag into the equation for menu navigation and drawing (I’ve tried it myself and I found the same thing), and which put the home button in a new, much more inconvenient location. Microsoft took this feedback to heart, so much so that they brought Gabe in to provide feedback …

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Microsoft Brings Penny Arcade Artist To An Engineering Team To Work Out Surface Pro 3 Issues

Are Hollow Icons Really Harder to Recognize Than Solid Icons? A Research Study

June 17, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Last summer software designer Aubrey Johnson published a post on Medium with a specific critique of Apple’s brand new mobile operating system, iOS7. Johnson suggested that Apple’s new “hollow” icons, being more visually complex than “solid” icons, create cognitive fatigue for users that will eventually lead them to tire of the interface and stop using it. The timely, bite-sized post was shared and discussed widely, with some designers affirming it as sensible advice and others criticizing it as overblown, oversimplified, and lacking valid evidence. An example of solid and hollow icons in the tab bar of an app in Appleâ€™s iOS7. The selected icon, Top Charts, uses a filled-in “solid” style. The unselected icons use an outlined “hollow” style. As …

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Are Hollow Icons Really Harder to Recognize Than Solid Icons? A Research Study

How Peak Design Recovers 12% of Abandoned Carts With Email Remarketing

June 17, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Close your eyes. Take a second and imagine yourself shopping on your favorite e-commerce website. You’ve got a cart that’s full of merchandise and you’re about to check out. You take your credit card out and begin completing the checkout form. First Name, Last Name, Email Address, Payment Info. The phone rings, your boss walks in, those TPS reports are due. Panic. You quickly Xed out of the window. You’ve just abandoned your cart. There are hundreds of reasons why people abandon online transactions and it happens almost 67% of the time on e-commerce websites according to the Baymard Institute. It’s not all bad news, however. Let’s think about your transaction from the e-commerce companies’ perspective. Compared …

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How Peak Design Recovers 12% of Abandoned Carts With Email Remarketing