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The Design is the Solution

WireframeHead 224x300 The Design is the Solution I just posted some thoughts on how the design is the solution over at Online Biz Outfitters.

I firmly believe this and tied it to what I have called the 10 Immutable Design Principles.

These are design principles everyone should keep in mind whenever they do any kind of design work.

I blended some thoughts from different sources because I felt that in all cases, the original focus was too narrow and left out something crucial.

We’ll see how this stands the test of time and subsequent ruminations.

Here’s a quote from the opening stanzas.Follow the link to get the rest of the story.

 

Every online business has a purpose; every web site has a purpose. The online business is essentially the web site and everything around it.

This means that your web site is the solution; the solution to how you the owner operator want to do business and to how you provide value to your customers.

But how did you get there? You started with nothing and evolved.

The evolution may or may not have followed a really firm plan or path, but you got there.

Along the way you made decisions: decisions about how things should look and feel, for instance

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The Parable of the Empty Cup

The Parable of the Empty Cup: Inspirational story revealing a simple yet effective productivity trick everyone should know. Helps you focus.

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Introducing Online Biz Outfitters – My New Personal Project

I have been remiss in keeping up with my blogging and tweeting of late. The reason is an exciting personal project that has been simmering on the back burner for quite some time. I have called it Online Biz Outfitters at onlinebizoutfitters.com I have been operating web sites since 1999…

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Still Stuck in the System After All These Years

I was skimming some information about EPM or Enterprise Performance Management for a client presentation when I came across a statement (no source attribution) about how 80% of all executives still get their information from Excel. This brought the association that Oh My God, it’s still stuck in the system…

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Multiple Slave Units in Multiple Groups

My wife was reading a camera manual at breakfast this morning and came across this little gem of a chapter: Multiple slave units in multiple groups. It gave me a curious cross-flash association. But first some background. We have a new camera and there’s a lot to learn. These units…

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Thoughts on the Mac scroll bar in Mountain Lion

Dave Winer over at Scripting News complained bitterly about the changes to the scroll bar functionality in Mountain Lion, Apple’s latest version of MAC OSX. At the time of appearance, I was still on 10.6 so couldn’t really comment from personal experience. Having gone through software upgrades for 40 years, I have become jaded…

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How to Permanently Turn off Notifications in MAC OSX 10.8

If you’re like me, you want some control over notification messages popping up in browsers or elsewhere while you’re working. I have enough distractions so I can’st stand these pop-ups. I don’t need to have a string of twitter or email messages thrown at me. When I want to look…

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The Internet Disrupts and Total Disintermediation is Near

I got my first Internet account in 1990, but abandoned it fairly soon as I found it mostly interesting to computer geeks and developers. Over the next five years things changed very quickly and in 1995 I got back on to a new world. It felt even at that time…

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The Power of the Other View

Dave Winer has piece out on his blog that struck a note with me. Essentially, the argument he makes is that if we lock ourselves into a narrow group of sources, we are at risk of missing something important. This made me think of focus vs. panorama, or simply, the…

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