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These are my bookmarked pages from February 23rd to February 24th:

• ChristianLindholm.com: Mobile Experiences – The new paradigm
  After seeing the Palm Pre I realised something I kind of knew for sometime, but could not really express in words, now I think I can. The iPhone introduced a new paradigm in mobile user experiences, multi-touch and gestural navigation. This is obvious somehow, but I always had a small problem with the iPhone UI in that the control of it was quite basic, a sort of forward-back-up-down-in-out UI. I have referred to it as a pretty mess, it works but does not scale very far.
• Ethnographic Research: A Key to Strategy – HBR.org
  Corporate ethnography isn’t just for innovation anymore. It’s central to gaining a full understanding of your customers and the business itself. The ethnographic work at my company, Intel, and other firms now informs functions such as strategy and long-range planning.
• Cooper Journal: Beyond the touch screen
  Since Apple's introduction of the iPhone, it seems like everyone is excited at the possibility of implementing a touch screen, and why not? There are a lot of benefits to touch-screen interfaces: Extreme flexibility in visual and interaction design allows products and applications to be tailored for specific needs and audiences to target markets; less reliance on hardware controls means significant savings in mechanical cost; larger screens allow more opportunities for richness in states and animations; greater flexibility also means the possibility to reduce waste in the creation of longer-lasting devices with upgradable OS's and software.
• » Proper Use of ALT and TITLE Attributes » fadtastic – a multi-author web design trends journal
  The World Wide Web Consortium requires all images and links in a webpage to have an ALT attribute and TITLE attribute respectively. Making web pages Accessible and usable is an important part of the creation process. Overall, using ALT and TITLE attributes on everything eliminates almost all accessibility problems on many web pages. ALT and TITLE attributes also improve user experience and help assistive technology translate content for users with physical and sensory disabilities.
• Reverse Engineering. Taking Apart a Behavior, Building an Insight at Experience Matters
  Progressive marketers are far beyond the point of realizing their foothold in the space of consumer communication is slipping. Every day, the role of creating, distributing, and learning falls more under the control of the consumer, which also means the tools for which they choose to take these actions are being created to cater to them, and not to us (marketers

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