During the workshop there was ample opportunity to observe how 80 people interact with the same piece of software.
About 80 people attending the workshop.
Of the 80 participants no more than 10 were from the university. While I was presenting my session I asked some technology owned questions and I found out that: Continue reading
Linked data is an effort to enhance applications and thereby lives with structured knowledge. This structure at its core is developed by human interaction. The challenge to consumers of linked data is to convince holders of unstructured data to structure it into actionable, manipulatable knowledge. Continue reading
I found this image which I think explains many of the kinds of things that Website builders need to think through. For some in the industry this is like.. Duh! but for others this kind of layout really helps us see the complexity and the parts we need to be thinking through to implement the website.
Many of the different kinds of things that website planners have to think through.
I have always wanted to be able to type the ⌘ symbol for various reasons, including writing tutorials, but I have not know how to access it through my keyboard. A few, general, related notes:
PopChar is a utility for helping users find the Characters they are looking for
OS X Character Viewer
Shift Key in Character Viewer
The Next two Links are more detailed but like the above.
Marginally relevant:
It is unicode point 2318 (the html hex code is ⌘ ) and so you can find it in the character palette under:
or you can go into
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Apple ⌘ symbol
On OS X, if you switch your keyboard to Unicode Hex Input, then holding down opt allows you to type the four digits for a unicode symbol and get the ⌘ (2318).
The Alt/Option Symbol has also been elusive. It can be fount at Unicode point 2325. U+2325.
Alt Key U+2325
Unicode and Hex Keyboard symbols
⌘ – ⌘ – ⌘ – the Command Key symbol
⌥ – ⌥ – ⌥ – the Option Key symbol
⇧ – ⇧ – ⇧ – the Shift Key (really just an outline up-arrow, not Mac-specific)
⇥ – ⇥ – ⇥ – the Tab Key symbol
⏎ – ⏎ – ⏎ – the Return Key symbol
⌫ – ⌫ – ⌫ – the Delete Key symbol
I found this great css messages code here (read about it for a fuller explanation):
/* CSS messages */
.alert { background: #fff6bf url('exclamation.png') 15px 50% no-repeat; padding: 5px 20px 5px 45px; border-top: 2px solid #ffd324; border-bottom: 2px solid #ffd324; }
.info { background: #f8fafc url('information.png') 15px 50% no-repeat; padding: 5px 20px 5px 45px; border-top: 2px solid #b5d4fe; border-bottom: 2px solid #b5d4fe; }
.download { background: #cfc url('download.png') 15px 50% no-repeat; padding: 5px 20px 5px 45px; border-top: 2px solid #3C6; border-bottom: 2px solid #3C6; }
.german { background: transparent url('de.png') 15px 50% no-repeat; padding: 5px 20px 5px 45px; }
.english { background: transparent url('gb.png') 15px 50% no-repeat; padding: 5px 20px 5px 45px; }
http://www.bioneural.net/wp-content/themes/k2bn/styles/bioneural/bioneural.css
Connecting resources and projects.
Academia.edu is a great UI. I wish the company I am working for designed something which could drive interaction with this site, or would create a site which would create interaction around our content and in the communities we interact with in a manner like this site does.
Here is the blog of the guy who did it: http://blog.07designs.com/about/.