Google recently launched their OpenSocial product, aiming to bring together APIs to build applications which are cross social network compatible. The idea seems great, I expected or hoped for the majority of social networks to follow suit, but Facebook have opened up their Platform Standards in competition. Perhaps Microsoft’s stake in the Platform has had [...]

Looks like Yahoo! Mail have made the effort to support email standards 100%. This is excellent news, having one of the top mail clients prove their support to The Email Standards Project shows the weight this standard initiative has behind it.
I wrote about the importance of the Email Standards Project a while back. It’s [...]

HTML vs text email is a debate that has been happening for as long as most can remember.
I came across a post on the Brightspark Blog last week linking to The Email Standards Project, something I was thrilled to hear about.

The Email Standards Project is about working with email client developers and the design [...]

The Irl-DeAN’s Design for All event went brilliantly last week. IBM’s Extreme Blue students showcased two projects. One, demonstrating an age friendly way of merging web and multimedia technologies so as to remove the fear of unfamiliar devices and complexities and replace them with peripherals comfortable and known to elderly users in particular.

When I was working in Belfast earlier this year, I picked up a copy of Jacob Nielson’s ‘Designing Web Usability’ for a pound in a small secondhand book shop. You can’t really go wrong for a quid. I vaguely remember lectures from a few years back discussing Nielson’s work, the main thing I remember though [...]

Microsoft held a web dev training seminar on the Expression Studio last week. The talk started with a run down on user experience and what great user experience means, namely reliability, usefulness, adaptability and desirability.

I was fortunate enough to pop up to Derry last week for a couple of days with two of my team mates from zerO.One. We were invited to speak at the N’Ireland Creative Industries conference, on in the Millenium forum in Derry City, about our experience in Dare to be digital this year.

Apart from the [...]