Category Archives: User Interface Design

Open for comments

By take21 | Published: July 10, 2008

Comments throughout the blog are now open to guests. An email address is required, but not prior approval. This is an experiment to see if readers want a discussion space. Readers can also be participants. The blog is mainly intended for students attending the course but we have a wider readership, who have offered helpful […]

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Text to visual

By take21 | Published: July 9, 2008

As we move from written and spoken explanation to visual communication by showing, here is another way to look at the text of a lecture handout on the design process. It’s a data map generated from the lecture notes.  

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The Big Picture

By take21 | Published: July 7, 2008

News Stories in Photographs The Big Picture is a site from The Boston Globe which has attracted a lot of admiration from influential technology bloggers, but not because it does anything remarkable with the technology of web design. It does something outstanding, and very simple. It makes photographs the focus of the site. World class […]

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The Big Picture

By take21 | Published: July 6, 2008

News Stories in Photographs The Big Picture is a site from The Boston Globe which has attracted a lot of admiration from influential technology bloggers, but not because it does anything remarkable with the technology of web design. It does something outstanding, and very simple. It makes photographs the focus of the site. World class […]

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Things You Really Need to Learn

By take21 | Published: July 6, 2008

“[W]hat should you learn? Your school will try to teach you facts, which you’ll need to pass the test but which are otherwise useless. In passing you may learn some useful skills, like literacy, which you should cultivate. But […] schools won’t teach you the things you really need to learn in order to be […]

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Things You Really Need to Learn

By take21 | Published: July 6, 2008

“[W]hat should you learn? Your school will try to teach you facts, which you’ll need to pass the test but which are otherwise useless. In passing you may learn some useful skills, like literacy, which you should cultivate. But […] schools won’t teach you the things you really need to learn in order to be […]

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Time Management

By take21 | Published: July 6, 2008

Randy Pausch on time management. Lecture at University of Virginia November 2007. Video 1hour 16 mins. Why? Time management is vital to study, especially part-time study. What do I get for over an hour of my time? Enough tips to save hours a week of wasted time, for the rest of your life. Some important […]

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