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My name is Jeroen Coumans, I'm a freelance web designer, front-end developer and Drupal ninja from the Netherlands. I love to create beautiful, usable and accessible websites. On this website, you can find my portfolio as well as my personal weblog. Interested in hiring me? I'd love to hear from you.
After completing my BA in Arts and Culture I'm now doing a MA in Communication and Multimedia Design. More …
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This article echoes my current thinking on design: "So, IDP (Information Design Prioritisation). Take the elements that are required on a page then decide what takes priority and score the different elements depending on how essential they really are to the user experience. If you’re redesigning a site and using the same information; use Analytics results to see where users are clicking the most and eye-tracking tests to decipher their routes and the hot spots on the page." It's too bad that this article provides the why, but doesn't provide the how.
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(dutch). Een alarmerende kijk op neuromarketing, een nieuwe manier om reclame te maken door transparante beeldmerken met de video te vermengen.
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Some preliminary lessons on Design by Community, by lead designer Mark Boulton. Interestingly, the first prototypes were not at all what I expected (honestly, I thought they sucked), but by putting them out in the open as soon as possible, and watching trends in feedback, further iterations (especially the last one) are really good. Lets hope this can serve as an inspiration for further Open Source design methodology (and beat Wordpress in creating a kick-ass administrative interface through an open process).
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Nice comparison, which raises the obvious question: should web apps look, feel and behave like web sites (a la Gmail) or should they look, feel and behave like desktop apps (a la Mobile Me)? It's too bad that by looking at two extremes, the article can't reach the more obvious conclusion, which is: it depends (on the context, goals, users, brand etc).
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Some examples really are beautiful
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"nterpersonal Divide, which won the Clifford G. Christians Award for research in media ethics, documents how long-standing theories—including ones by Marshall McLuhan—no longer hold in the wake of new media and technology. Rather than extending the human senses, as McLuhan believed, Bugeja documents how media and technology split consciousness and diminish the senses, placing users in virtual environments at odds with physical ones. " Via @nielshendriks.
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Combining Apache's Virtual Hosts and installing a DNS server to simplify website development.
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A great post detailing how to make use of this: "Along the way I’ll share three different segments that you must have in your web analytics tool. Regardless of why your website exists or what tool you use, Google Analytics or an alternative. I’ll close with a approach you can use to get answers to your ad-hoc questions / queries faster, in mere minutes rather than days."
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Still waiting to try them out, localized versions always lag behind.
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"…we were able to leverage other work we’ve done with Mapnik and Drupal to quickly create maps that show off this global participation in an intuitive and eye-catching manner on StandAgainstPoverty.org for the United Nations Millennium Campaign."
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Ik zie niet wat je bij Flickr bedoelt, die footer vind ik nogal traditioneel. Amazon is duidelijker en gedeeltelijk een en/en verhaal (en boven en onder) …
Wens: bovenin een link naar het menu beneden! Bij Gene is het namelijk nogal ver scrollen naar het ‘menu’. Bij Powazek is het al duidelijk(er en) beter. Pfff, Asterisk is weer flink scrollen. En Joe vind ik en scrollen en minder overzichtelijk.
‘Nieuw’ idee: Zorg dat de hoofdnavigatie net onderin beeld van de browser staat en de ‘submenu’s’ daaronder, net buiten beeld. In zekere zin zoals bij Powazek. Resumé: Midden in de pagina en net in beeld.
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