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Instructional Text in the User Interface: Some Counterintuitive Implications of User Behaviors :: UXmatters

Instructional Text in the User Interface: Some Counterintuitive Implications of User Behaviors :: UXmatters The dynamics of how users interact with interactive elements within a user interface change how we must approach instruction that we deliver within user interfaces. Users skip static elements, such as instructional text, because they focus immediately on downstream actionable objects. ...

Sakai UI Issues

Sakai User Support Issues – Colin from the FLUID project is working to compile a list of outstanding UI/UE issues with Sakai, to target as FLUID gears itself up. Interesting list, though there’s a big project up ahead. Emerging themes seem to deal a lot with consistency and integration — not surprising considering Sakai’s architectural ...

ongoing · OpenID at Work

ongoing · OpenID at Work – This caused a GIGANTIC thread on the identity-gang list that got back to the question of implicit authorization off of an authentication source. I know when I was looking at Rutgers IdM infrastructure, assumptions about what having a credential meant was a serious barrier to then expanding issuing of ...

I finally get REST. Wow.

I finally get REST. Wow. It’s depressing to think that SOAP started just about 10 years ago and that now that everything is said and done, we built RPC again. I know SOAP is really an XML messaging protocol, you can do oneway async stuff, etc, etc, but let’s face it. The tools make the ...

Map of Online Communitites

Map of Online Communitites
Via Jesse – Map of online communities. I wonder if it’s missing an important Balkanized zones of all the institutional silos for Universities, company intranets, etc. Getting back into the whole identity track — how do you go about breaking down all the silos. OpenID seems like it could be part of it, building bridges ...