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		<title>Debugging JavaScript grrr&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do I always feel like I&#8217;m fumbling around in the dark when it comes to Javascript debugging? Firebug and other tools have been making it a little easier but when you get an error like this:

It&#8217;s a little ridiculous don&#8217;t you think? I mean really, does IE think I have more than 130 million [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seanlandry.com/blog/2008/12/02/debugging-javascript-grrr/</link>
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		<title>Why UX designers should learn to prototype</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a User Experience designer I&#8217;m responsible for providing design specifications to engineers. Sometimes the design problems are easy but more often they are complex and difficult to visualize. As designers we&#8217;ve latched onto some tools to help us communicate our ideas to our stakeholders. We use wireframes, mock-ups, omnigraffle/visio UML diagrams, comics, Powerpoint and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seanlandry.com/blog/2008/11/14/why-ux-designers-should-learn-to-prototype/</link>
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		<title>Selecting a JavaScript Library</title>
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At work I was assigned the task of evaluating the major libraries and selecting one for our web applications. I spent some time reviewing the major players and decided to switch from script.aculo.us to Jquery for the following reasons:
1. CSS syntax - Jquery uses the same syntax as CSS to identify elements within the DOM
2. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seanlandry.com/blog/2008/11/10/selecting-a-javascript-library/</link>
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		<title>Why I attend conferences.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at the UIE 13 conference. It&#8217;s day 4 and I&#8217;m learning about &#8220;gallery pages&#8221;. I sat at lunch where the discussion was about why we each decided to attend this conference.
I&#8217;m not sure I get a tremendous amount of practical knowledge (except for the Ajax talk). It&#8217;s more important for me that I emerge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seanlandry.com/blog/2008/10/16/why-i-attend-go-to-conferences/</link>
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		<title>UIE 13 Day Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attending day two of the UIE. Spent the morning in Adaptive Path/ Luke Wroblewski. Both were excellent speakers. A little high level for my taste but overall pretty good stuff. They both provided good support for making a case for design in an organization. 
Jared Spool was entertaining as always. I was a bit disappointed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seanlandry.com/blog/2008/10/14/uie-13-day-two/</link>
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		<title>UIE 13 Day One - Wrap-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day one ended at 5:30. A great start to a conference. Learning how to use Ajax as a tool and progressive enhancement to ensure your product degrades gracefully was well worth the time. I may pick up Jeremy&#8217;s book today. Tomorrow is a full day of talks. I&#8217;m looking forward to Jeff Patton&#8217;s UCD/Agile talk.
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		<link>http://seanlandry.com/blog/2008/10/14/uie-13-day-one-wrap-up/</link>
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		<title>UIE 13 Day One - Morning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m here at the UIE 13 Conference here in Cambridge MA. Day one is all day sessions. I&#8217;ve chosen the Bulletproof Ajax: Designing Interactive and usable Ajax solutions by Jeremy Keith.
Jeremy went over the building blocks of Ajax and some of the history. I&#8217;m really enjoying the high level building block discussion. I always find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seanlandry.com/blog/2008/10/13/uie-13-day-one-morning/</link>
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		<title>Agile and User Centered Design (UCD)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Practicing UCD in an Agile development environment can be daunting, frustrating and scary for the traditional user experience designer. After all, we like to design, research, survey, ask questions and create informed designs which get passed to development. UCD naturally fits better in a waterfall methodology.
Here&#8217;s the problem: It&#8217;s too damn slow. All that work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seanlandry.com/blog/2008/10/09/agile-and-user-centered-design-ucd/</link>
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		<title>The ithermostat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m feeling a little left out of the iphone, ipod, idog phenomenon going on. So I decided to take a look at some common items and see if I can add &#8220;i&#8221; to it and see how they would look/interact. The first design is a simple thermostat. I&#8217;ll take a look at it&#8217;s UI and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seanlandry.com/blog/2008/09/17/the-ithermostat/</link>
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		<title>Google Chrome, FireFox 3, Safari or IE8</title>
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I have to admit I was completely surprised when I learned Google was launching a new browser. They kept the secret under lock and key kudos to them.
I&#8217;ve been test driving it for the last two days and it seems like a great new browser, it&#8217;s a little faster than FF3, Safari and IE8, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seanlandry.com/blog/2008/09/04/google-chrome-firefox-3-safari-or-ie8/</link>
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