How ‘cool’ is cool?
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You either love ’em or you hate ‘em. You either love or you hate the Dallas Cowboys, the New York Yankees, the Toronto Maple Leafs, and companies like Starbucks, Microsoft and LuluLemon; there is no middle ground.
Ryan Talk: CSSS Grad Banquet
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Last Friday I had the honour of giving the keynote address to the College of Computer Science grad class at the University of Saskatchewan. Preparing this talk was actually a little bit stressful. I wanted to inspire and motivate the graduating class to move forward in life while remembering some of their lasting memories from their four years at school.
A Q&A with White Ninja Web Comics
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Don’t ask how much this cost, but I was able to coax the creators of White Ninja into an interview. For those of you who don’t enjoy humour, White Ninja Comics is the single most important piece of Canadian literature that you’ve likely never read. Local boys Scott Bevan and Kent Earl have been drawing our favorite phallic-shaped hero for over a decade, and have a produced a cult following all over the world. Here’s what I needed to know.
Points on usability: eliminate pagination
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Is pagination good usability? Obviously it depends on the use, but from a user experience view it’s generally not good usability. So why is it so common?
Navigation priority
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It’s a common practice to prioritize navigation into a primary navigation with essential functions and divert other information to less prominent navigation.
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