Anyone for a Game of Cards?

Posted on May 29, 2008 10:08:26 PM

Everyone loves a game of cards.

I was raised playing Whist for pennies and matches. Whatever the stakes, we ten-year-olds would play for hours, peering over at our opponents while trying to make sense of the random hand we had been dealt. And in exactly the same way, card sorting is appealing to users. As humans, our minds prefer to absorb information in chunks, and we subconsciously look for and remember links, groups, and Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Anyone, Cards, Game

The Rise of Flash Video, Part 2

Posted on May 29, 2008 06:00:56 AM

This will happen to you: Your client calls and informs you that she is seeing a lot of video on the web these days and, that she just happens to have a few she would like to put up on her site as well. There was a time when this request would have struck fear into the hearts of most web developers, but today’s web is a different place; the ubiquity of the Flash player in the marketplace has made this task possible. As I pointed out in Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Flash, Part, Rise, Video