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		<title>What separates bad design from good?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jared Spool&#8217;s post today on the UIE blog is titled &#8220;Nobody comes to work to make a bad design&#8221; suggests that the cause of crappy designs is that  &#8220;the folks creating bad designs are missing…good knowledge and skills.&#8221; But what constitutes &#8220;good knowledge and skills&#8221;? I think the missing link is strategy. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andreaop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=26669788&amp;post=47&amp;subd=andreaop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Challenging Assumptions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We tend to assume that work that&#8217;s guided by best practices will almost automatically be well received. The premises behind this assumption are: best practices have come about through empirical validation over time most people would intuitively recognize something &#8220;good&#8221;. Maybe it&#8217;s just me. In any case, my little bubble was burst today. Here are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andreaop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=26669788&amp;post=36&amp;subd=andreaop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Serendipity versus the Billable Hour</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just spent 20 minutes chatting with my project manager about client-related work, but it wasn&#039;t technically billable. Yet, during that unbillable time, I came up with an idea that I&#039;ll present to my client on a call tomorrow. Can I bill those 20 minutes to the project budget? When we opened our mouths to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andreaop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=26669788&amp;post=8&amp;subd=andreaop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shifting Baselines</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading my Twitter stream and the many blogs that are in my RSS reader, it&#039;s become painfully obvious that the general command and valuation of written English is on a downward spiral. This morning, I read this wonderfully concise and sarcastic post by Alicia Jay about why proofreading doesn&#039;t matter. While I agree with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andreaop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=26669788&amp;post=9&amp;subd=andreaop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Black Ink from Pixels</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More and more newspapers are finally starting to see the writing on the wall about their future survival in our brave new digital world. Some have even begun their struggle to re-define and re-invent themselves, for better and for worse. Rupert Murdoch seems hell bent on re-tracing the same unproductive, not to say destructive, path [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andreaop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=26669788&amp;post=10&amp;subd=andreaop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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