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Psychology of Social Design Talk | Bokardo
Slides and resources from Joshua Porter’s talk at UX Week 2007.
(tags: social psychology design)

bbPress
bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress (and it can integrate with WordPress too).
(tags: wordpress forum application)

OJR’s “five guide” to do-it-yourself website usability testing

Online Journalism Reviews offers steps and forms to test how readers will react to a new multimedia project or website design.

Video: Wikis in Plain English | Common Craft

We made this video because wiki web sites are easy to use, but hard to describe.

Video: RSS in Plain English | Common Craft

We made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven’t yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader… if you know someone who would love RSS and hasn’t yet tried it, point them here for 3.5 minutes of RSS in Plain English.

Line short numerical and mathematical expressions with hard spaces

From The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web. Use a non-breaking space to maintain association between number-word pairings like dimensions or chapter numbers. A regular expression in the CMS could effect this automatically.

• PebblePAD
  [A]n innovative ePortfolio system designed to support any learner… allows users to build a diverse collection of items related to their studies, personal development, continuing professional development or any event of personal significance.
  (tags: e-learning education social)

Latest article from Mike Cherim, our spiritual leader at Accessites.org: Confirming a web site’s accessibility.

…and it was OK. I think this is more a reflection on my third-time veteran status and general knowledge level than anything else though. Whilst I didn’t learn a whole bunch of new stuff - it wasn’t very technical this year was it? - there was plenty of inspiration from the presentations and after-conference chatting to be had. The food once again was great and I was very surprised how long that bar tab lasted Thursday - a pity about the music volume again and the fact that we couldn’t drink outside.