23rd
May
2005
“‘Verbatim memory is often a property of being a novice,’ said Sloutsky, who is also associate dean of research at the university’s College of Human Ecology . ‘As people become smarter, they start to put things into categories, and one of the costs they pay is lower memory accuracy for individual differences.’”
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23rd
May
2005
“James Melzer has developed an impressive roadmap (268Kb PDF) for Enterprise Content Management in Context. After your initial review you may be overwhelmed, as I was, but don’t worry: take a deeper look and you’ll find it quite useful.”
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23rd
May
2005
“When you have been working with CSS for so long it becomes difficult to tell people the best methods for learning it because your methods aren’t always what works best for everyone. I definitely encountered my bumps and bruises and still seem to be going through some growing pains in my learning process (although I know a hell of a whole lot). The thing with me and CSS is that no matter how much I seem to know, I always feel like there is a better way to code it, which is probably true.”
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23rd
May
2005
“The role of metaphor in interaction design has oft been maligned and usually misunderstood. Metaphor has been called ‘not only unhelpful, but harmful’ (Cooper, 1995) in design, and is typically thought of as being limiting, scaling poorly, and leading to faulty thinking about how products work.”
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