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		<title>treen: the woodsman&#8217;s miscellaneous category</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a classification geek, married to a tree geek I was delighted to discover treen which Wikipedia says is &#8220;a generic name for small handmade functional household objects made of wood&#8221;. I may start collecting miscellaneous categories from different domains&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>wireframing with Google Drawing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been experimenting with wireframing using Google Drawing. And not entirely because I like making my life hard. (and yes, I&#8217;ve been doing lots and lots of sketching too, so there&#8217;s no need for the sketching mafia to scold me) I’ve started off at the Guardian with a PC but we were a bit uncertain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iaplay.com/2011/05/27/wireframing-with-google-drawing/</link>
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		<title>ux themes in &#8216;Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marty Cagan ran a product management workshop for us yesterday and I spent some of this morning reading Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love. The workshop was based around his top product mistakes. My background has often blurred the line between product manager and UX person, and I was interested to hear some tension(?) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iaplay.com/2011/03/30/ux-themes-in-inspired-how-to-create-products-customers-love/</link>
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		<title>back to the Guardian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian was my first job out of university.  I&#8217;m back 10 years later and the office is a whole lot shinier and is also closer to my house. So far, so good. I&#8217;ve been surprised at how pleased I am to be getting back to the media.  I think it&#8217;s the culture of trying new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iaplay.com/2011/02/21/back-to-the-guardian/</link>
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		<title>working with constraints</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Constraints was another topic of conversation in the coffee breaks between The Story sessions. I&#8217;m not sure how much it was inspired by the presentations or was just the direction the discussions went in. At the BBC, our attitude to constraints and their role in design was one of the sources of friction we identified [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iaplay.com/2011/02/20/working-with-constraints/</link>
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		<title>the obsession of The Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Story was a satisfying and intriguing day out. Chatting to @lynsey_s in a break, we reflected that it felt different to the usual speaking events we get to go to. (although I&#8217;ve not been to much in recent years&#8230;my charity days have been focused on very tangible tactical events on topics like RFID and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iaplay.com/2011/02/19/the-obsession-of-the-story/</link>
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		<title>leaving RNIB</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Web Strategy Programme of work that I&#8217;ve been working on at RNIB has been completed and in the current climate there&#8217;s not likely to be big new web projects coming up. So it&#8217;s time for something new. It&#8217;s tough times in the sector and it looks like I won&#8217;t be replaced with another IA. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iaplay.com/2011/02/18/leaving-rnib/</link>
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		<title>long view planning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of goal setting articles include the assertation that &#8220;you overestimate what you can do in a day but underestimate what you can do in a year&#8221;. A similar quote is attributed to Bill Gates: &#8220;We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iaplay.com/2011/02/17/long-view-planning/</link>
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		<title>Navigation isn&#8217;t a (good) promotional tool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of classic IA arguments is about why New Service X shouldn&#8217;t be added to the primary site navigation. Users aren&#8217;t *generally* just wandering around the internet going &#8220;ooh, what&#8217;s that? I have no idea, why don&#8217;t I click it and see&#8221;. If you just add random new stuff to the primary navigation, the main [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iaplay.com/2011/02/04/navigation-isnt-a-good-promotional-tool/</link>
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		<title>Giving the user choice over &#8220;Did you mean?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Be really really wary of expanding the users queries without telling them. Don&#8217;t just give them results for aubergine and results for eggplant, when they only searched for Aubergine. You think you are being clever and helpful. If you&#8217;re wrong about the expansion then you are just being extremely irritating. Either: a) Suggest the expansion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iaplay.com/2011/02/03/giving-the-user-choice-over-did-you-mean/</link>
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