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	<description>You're reading Jeff Watkins' thoughts about Web application design and development with a little bit of technology ranting thrown in for free.</description>
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		<title>The Web Is An Ugly Place</title>
		<link>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2007/08/the-web-is-an-ugly-place</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found a link on Ajaxian today about a date picker widget that uses Prototype and Scriptaculous. But why does it have to look so ugly?



I recently finished writing a date picker for work. I&#8217;m not entirely pleased with it, but it seems to work OK.



Of course, my standards are a bit higher when it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Primary &amp; Secondary Actions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luke Wroblewski recently posted an interesting article on the design of Web Forms: Primary &#38; Secondary Actions in Web Forms. He analyses the eye tracking results from study participants as they filled out several forms with different button placements.

I find it interesting that the fastest completion results favour the option which could cause the greatest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ajaxy Goodness</title>
		<link>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2006/04/ajaxy-goodness</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back a million years ago, I wrote about using Ajax to allow visitors to search my site. When I ported the Web site from MovableType to WordPress, I had to give up this feature because I didn&#8217;t know PHP or WordPress well enough to make it work.

This weekend, I put the finishing touches on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Remind Me</title>
		<link>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2006/02/you-remind-me</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just yesterday I noticed something peculiar about Microsoft Outlook:


  When I&#8217;m creating a meeting to which multiple people are invited, I get to determine when they get reminded of the meeting.


That just seems wrong.



There ought to be a configuration somewhere that allows me to specify my default reminder settings. For example, I&#8217;m slow and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra is Clueless</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kathy Sierra is at it again: almost as if she&#8217;s tuned into my own ranting and raving. Her latest article is about &#8220;cluelessness&#8221;.


  Yes, I recognize that it&#8217;s ridiculous to equate &#8220;cluelessness&#8221; with &#8220;beginner&#8217;s mind&#8221;. Or is it? What if &#8220;clueless&#8221; is simply a label the glass-half-empty folks give the glass-half-full folks. If we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Word, Sounds Like</title>
		<link>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2006/02/one-word-sounds-like</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2006 02:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I was thwarted by a voicemail directory. I called the main phone number for a company with an automated PBX. However, I didn&#8217;t know how to spell the last name of the guy I was trying to call.

I&#8217;d heard his name several times over the phone, so I knew roughly how it was spelled, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SchrÃ¶dinger&#8217;s Poor Cat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve become a regular reader of Creating Passionate Users and the Kathy Sierra&#8217;s latest article SchrÃ¶dinger&#8217;s Product is another excellent instalment.

However, in today&#8217;s article Kathy trots out the standard SchrÃ¶dinger&#8217;s Cat thought experiment. Now I&#8217;ve been blessed with feline companions for 15 years, so I might know a thing or two about cat behaviour. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Users In Mind</title>
		<link>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2006/02/keeping-users-in-mind</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kathy Sierra has a really great article about designing for users rather than features. (Thanks Josh for linking to the Creating Passionate Users site.)

The closing paragraph really sums it all up:


  Most importantly, keep asking yourself, &#8220;How can I help my users kick ass?&#8221; And to answer that, you&#8217;ll have to know the context [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Designs These Things</title>
		<link>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2006/01/who-designs-these-things</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For Christmas I bought a Canon Selphy CP510 for Anna. It&#8217;s a really cool dye sublimation printer that will print up to 4&#215;6 photographs. The photos are water proof and basically every bit as good as those you&#8217;d get from CVS or Walgreens.

Except some idiot designed the physical unit.

The &#8220;front&#8221; of the device contains the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developing a Site for the Bean</title>
		<link>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2005/11/developing-a-site-for-the-bean</link>
		<comments>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2005/11/developing-a-site-for-the-bean#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 02:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may already know that in about a week&#8217;s time I will become a father for the first time. My wife has already registered the domain name weewatkins.com so I&#8217;d like to create a Web site for her to post photos and short thoughts.

Does anyone have any suggestions of sites I can look [...]]]></description>
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