Feb23

Tools and Tips for HTML Integration

Tags: Internet, Proyectos, User Experience
One of our weak points usually is the design integration tasks, if you are lucky you can have a very skilled web designer that gives you a cool cross-browser compatible markup that fits perfectly in your application, but most of the times you’re lucky if the HTML works perfectly in the plain html file and almost never the designer will be able t... [Read More]

Apr25

First contact with IE8 web slices

Tags: Internet, User Experience
IE8 introduced a new element called webslices, it is a microformat that allows the visitor of a page to subscribe to a certain portion of the page. It’s different to an rss since there are no posts or xml involved, only “one time” html, but it shares the concept of “subscription”.
The way to implement that is the same as all the microforma... [Read More]

Apr08

Where does the value come from?

Tags: Egocentrismo, User Experience
It’s simple, but sometimes leads to frustration, the value comes from the user.
You can give the user the best technically possible, user friendly, powerful application, but it is him/her which gives the value to it. You must “sell” the application to the user, convince him to use it.
Many times the question is "are you building t... [Read More]

Jul06

Accesibilidad y usabilidad

Tags: User Experience
Estaba haciendo una especie de visión y alcance para un proyecto que básicamente es un formulario gigante con algunos informes, estamos planteando el cambio de la tecnología actual (Access) a un enfoque web que se ajusta mucho mas a las necesidades del proyecto.
Como el formulario en papel son unas 14 hojas (¿realmente querrán tanta inform... [Read More]