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4th August 2000

Accommodating Color Blindness

“An estimated nine to twelve percent of the male population suffers from some form of color vision deficiency, commonly called ‘color blindness.’ It is important for computer interface designers to take into account and eliminate, if possible, any potential confusions that can arise because of color vision deficiencies.”

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4th August 2000

Design in Motion

“Design in Motion’s mission is to facilitate the professional activities of Designers by providing information resources, editorial and news updated daily on the art, technology and business of motion design for television and media-rich Web applications.”

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4th August 2000

Design in Motion

“Design in Motion’s mission is to facilitate the professional activities of Designers by providing information resources, editorial and news updated daily on the art, technology and business of motion design for television and media-rich Web applications.”

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4th August 2000

How user testing saves money

“Iterative design, with its repeating cycle of design and testing, is the only validated methodology in existence that will consistently produce successful results. If you don’t have user-testing as an integral part of your design process you are going to throw buckets of money down the drain.”

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4th August 2000

Learning mathematics and design in a digital studio

“Visual Representations as a Successful Problem Solving Strategy: Use of visual representations for word problems after the workshop was correlated with success in problem solving during post interview problems (r=0.83). Some students solved problems without using visual representations, and some students used representations but failed to solve problems; however, no student solved more problems overall than the total number of problems they attempted using visual representations.”

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4th August 2000

Sorting out XML messaging protocols

“This article looks at major transport-level options and compares how they accomplish transferring XML between parties reliably. You’ll find an overview of the approaches of XML-RPC, SOAP, WDDX, ebXML, and JMS as they apply to XML transport, with simple example code.”

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