Bluetooth ate my Credit Card
Why Mannesmann's Tele-Commerce Bank venture with Deutsche Bank makes complete sense!

Mannesmann has done exactly the right thing in its defense against the hostile takeover from Vodafone Airtouch. The question is whether the shareholders will have the understanding to see why the management are correct. Mannesmann management has shown tremendous vision and a boldness to admit that telecoms firms want to be the new banks. The new Tele-Commerce Bank is the shape of things to come.

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Site Redesign
Part 2: Content Analysis

It ought to be easy to do Analysis given that the most popular content at this site is a paper describing just that - User Interface Analysis. Well, yes that may be true. However, that paper is already more than 1 year old. Times have changed and so has the state-of-the-art in Interaction Design. Not wishing to detract from my own paper, its important to realise that it is not the only answer. My thinking has changed over the last 12 months and has been affected by newer publications. We will be using the material from my User Interface Analysis paper. However, first let's consider some more goal and task related material.

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Site Redesign Letters
and other readers mail

The new design caused quite a mail bag. read more...

Not everyone liked my Predictions for the 21st Century and Interaction with Machines. read more...

And some really positive feedback on why XML is the Content that ought to be preferred. read more...

WML or XML?
How do you supply content for the wireless market

Right now if you work at an eCommerce vendor, you are being pressurized to start producing your website output in WML format, so that it can be served up to wireless devices. You are probably getting perplexed by the number and variety of these devices and the number of versions of the WML that will be required. This initial trend for content providers to go WML is wrong and it will lead to long term Interaction problems. XML is the answer, content aggregators and service providers need to do the hard work and serve the WML to the devices. Why?

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Pushlets
Javascript Browser Notification for Web MVC

Just van den Broecke has been working on a complimentary technology to the Server-side MVC Engine that I have been presenting. Just has implemented a Notification mechanism using a minimal piece of Javascript in the client HTML page.

Its lightweight and will run on most browsers eliminating the need for heavy Java Applets. Just calls this technology "Pushlets" and has provided a demo implementation.

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21st Century Interaction
a brief history of the next 50 years

With the year clicking over a 00, lots of people have been tempted to make some futuristic, visionary predictions. Nothing really qualifies anyone to make these kinds of guesses unless they can lay claim to some additional senses and powers, that the rest of us just don't have. But future guessing is fun. So, here are my 12 predictions for interaction design over the next 50 years.

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Swing
Matt Robinson & Pavel Vorobiev

Site Redesign
Part 1 : Gathering Requirements

After one year of running UIDesign.net, I was aware that the original design though functional was looking tired. It was failing to meet the requirements and expectations of Users and Owner to a sufficient degree. I was also acutely aware that if you are going to preach or teach then you need to lead by example. You have to walk-the-walk as well as talk-the-talk.

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Browser Wars 2000
the battle for your pocket

You may not have noticed yet, but there is a new battle to control software infrastructure that will affect how you work, how you do business and you pay for things. In the past 20 years we've seen the battle for the personal computer hardware, then the battle for the operating system, then the battle for the Internet browser, now the battle has moved to your pocket. Its the battle of the micro-browser.

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Server-side MVC
Part 2 : a State and Event Engine

Assuming that you have modeled the implementation of your Presentation Layer Navigation using a Statechart, you can develop a genericised architecture which allows you to "soft" code the design of the system as a description in a database. This series of articles is about doing just that and now we are going to look at modeling an engine for the generic treatment and processing of events and state transitions.

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Are you a 21st Century Bureaucrat?
Interaction Design affecting our lives

Bad Interaction Design is nothing new! In fact, we have a term for it "red tape" or more accurately "bureaucracy". Every time we have to deal with authority there is a form to be filled. How often do we get frustrated and annoyed by badly designed forms and overly complex bureaucratic process? Bureaucracy isn't coming to the web, its here already! Are you just another 21st Century Bureaucrat?

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