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Category: User Experience

  • Making DHTML Menus Suck Less

    Most DHTML menus are a band-aid for bad information architecture. If you must use one, at least make it less painful.

  • SharePoint 2010 and Folders

    SharePoint 2010 finally bridges the gap between folder and metadata camps with folder-level metadata, filtered views, and metadata navigation.

  • Counting Content Types

    When it comes to SharePoint content types, lean toward more granularity, not less. Under-architecting creates problems that are expensive to fix later.

  • SharePoint 2010 System Requirements and Browser Support

    SharePoint 2010 drops IE 6 support and targets standards-based browsers. Even Microsoft considers it a dead technology now.

  • Web Standards in an ASP.NET World

    A presentation on achieving web standards compliance in ASP.NET, with CSS-friendly adapters and practical techniques.

  • User Experience Presentation

    A screencast of my user experience presentation at the Cincinnati .NET User’s Group, complete with my first rough encounter with iMovie.

  • The Wireframe Audiences

    Wireframes serve designers, customers, and project managers differently. The case for keeping them static and staying in your lane as an information architect.

  • The Wikipedia Manual of Style: A Study in Governance

    Wikipedia’s Manual of Style is a masterclass in governance done right. The same principles apply whether you’re running a wiki or a SharePoint deployment.

  • Faking Exchange Support in OS X Leopard

    OS X Leopard has no native Exchange support, so I stitched together Entourage, IMAP, and Dock Dodger to make Mail.app and iCal work anyway.

  • The SharePoint Grade Card

    A candid report card on SharePoint’s major features. WSS earns an A, but Designer and the default interface barely pass.