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		<title>Building a Webapp Around User-Workflow &#8211; Stack Overflow</title>
		<link>http://lb.viks.org/2010/08/12/building-a-webapp-around-user-workflow-stack-overflow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think your right on that solid and engaging workflows are the key to successful user applications. As an example, consider this site (stackoverflow) which has an engaging and simple workflow around questions. It&#8217;s a great example. I have been thinking a lot about this as well. Let me point you to a couple resources. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think your right on that solid and engaging workflows are the key to successful user applications. As an example, consider this site (stackoverflow) which has an engaging and simple workflow around questions. It&#8217;s a great example. I have been thinking a lot about this as well. Let me point you to a couple resources. One is a fantastic article by Bret Victor, now of Apple. http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/. It is about software design as information design. This is a different idea than workflow but I think it boils down to the same thing, giving users meaning information graphics that they can act upon easily and answers their top questions. Read that article, it might change your perspective of software, it did mine. Second, is the concept of flow (work flow right?) that is used in game programming. Consider these core ideas from http://www.jenovachen.com/flowingames/flowtheory.htm:</p>
<p>We are up to the activity. </p>
<p>We are able to concentrate on the activity.</p>
<p>The activity has clear goals. </p>
<p>The activity has direct feedback. </p>
<p>We feel that we control the activity.</p>
<p>Our worries and concerns disappear.</p>
<p>Our subjective experience of time is altered.</p>
<p>These sound like ingredients of a great workflow to me. </p>
<p>Also you might read the IPhone UI docs and study Apple apps in general, they are generally the best in the world at building UIs with solid workflow.</p>
<p>[From: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/256952/building-a-webapp-around-user-workflow">Building a Webapp Around User-Workflow - Stack Overflow</a>]</p>
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		<title>The Incredible Em &amp; Elastic Layouts with CSS — Jon Tan ?</title>
		<link>http://lb.viks.org/2009/11/03/the-incredible-em-elastic-layouts-with-css-%e2%80%94-jon-tan-%e9%99%b3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Incredible Em &#038; Elastic Layouts with CSS — Jon Tan ?.]]></description>
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		<title>40 most recent links from @davewiner</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[40 most recent links from @davewiner.]]></description>
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		<title>Five Founders</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five Founders.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://paulgraham.com/5founders.html'>Five Founders</a>.</p>
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		<title>Anomalous Anomaly » Blog Archive » Triple Booting Your Mac</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Data Visualization: Modern Approaches &#124; Graphics &#124; Smashing Magazine</title>
		<link>http://lb.viks.org/2008/10/23/data-visualization-modern-approaches-graphics-smashing-magazine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data Visualization: Modern Approaches &#124; Graphics &#124; Smashing Magazine Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data &#8211; tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/">Data Visualization: Modern Approaches | Graphics | Smashing Magazine</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data &#8211; tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your readers effectively, sometimes you need more than just a simple pie chart of your results. In fact, there are much better, profound, creative and absolutely fascinating ways to visualize data. Many of them might become ubiquitous in the next few years.<br />
So what can we expect? Which innovative ideas are already being used? And what are the most creative approaches to present data in ways we’ve never thought before?<br />
Let’s take a look at the most interesting modern approaches to data visualization as well as related articles, resources and tools.</p></blockquote>
<p>[From: Data Visualization: Modern Approaches | Graphics | Smashing Magazine] </p>
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		<title>Top 10 CSS Table Designs &#124; CSS, Events &#124; Smashing Magazine</title>
		<link>http://lb.viks.org/2008/08/14/top-10-css-table-designs-css-events-smashing-magazine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>v</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top 10 CSS Table Designs &#124; CSS, Events &#124; Smashing Magazine Tables got to be one of the most difficult objects to style in the Web, thanks to the cryptic markup, amount of detail we have to look over to, and lack of browser compatibility. A lot of time could be wasted on a single [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/13/top-10-css-table-designs">Top 10 CSS Table Designs | CSS, Events | Smashing Magazine</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Tables got to be one of the most difficult objects to style in the Web, thanks to the cryptic markup, amount of detail we have to look over to, and lack of browser compatibility. A lot of time could be wasted on a single table although it’s just a simple one. This is where this article comes in handy. It will show you ten most easily implemented CSS table designs so you can style your tables in a zap!</p></blockquote>
<p>[From: Top 10 CSS Table Designs | CSS, Events | Smashing Magazine] </p>
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		<title>Kick Windows Explorer to the curb with AccelMan File Manager &#8211; Download Squad</title>
		<link>http://lb.viks.org/2008/07/20/kick-windows-explorer-to-the-curb-with-accelman-file-manager-download-squad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>v</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kick Windows Explorer to the curb with AccelMan File Manager &#8211; Download Squad Windows Explorer keeps getting a tiny bit better with each new Windows release. But for some reason Microsoft refuses to offer one thing that many other file managers have had for years: a two-pane window. If you want to copy files from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/20/kick-windows-explorer-to-the-curb-with-accelman-file-manager/">Kick Windows Explorer to the curb with AccelMan File Manager &#8211; Download Squad</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Windows Explorer keeps getting a tiny bit better with each new Windows release. But for some reason Microsoft refuses to offer one thing that many other file managers have had for years: a two-pane window. If you want to copy files from one folder to another, you need to open two separate Explorer windows. </p>
<p>There are a whole slew of free replacements for Windows Explorer. But one of the new kids on the freeware block is AccelMan, a utility that you used to have to pay for, but which was recently set free. Make sure to download and install the registry key from the download page or you&#8217;ll just get a 30 day free trial.</p></blockquote>
<p>[From: Kick Windows Explorer to the curb with AccelMan File Manager - Download Squad] </p>
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		<title>Handling Flash Crowds from your Garage</title>
		<link>http://lb.viks.org/2008/07/08/handling-flash-crowds-from-your-garage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix08/tech/full_papers/elson/elson_html/index.html">Handling Flash Crowds from your Garage</a></p>
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		<title>Cookies are for Closers: Oren Hurvitzâ€™s Blog Â» LinkedIn Architecture</title>
		<link>http://lb.viks.org/2008/07/08/cookies-are-for-closers-oren-hurvitz%e2%80%99s-blog-%c2%bb-linkedin-architecture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://hurvitz.org/blog/2008/06/linkedin-architecture">Cookies are for Closers: Oren Hurvitzâ€™s Blog Â» LinkedIn Architecture</a></p>
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