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Design for the Novice, Configure for the Pro

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web 2.0, You can always hide complexity into configuration screens rather than the out-of-the-box features.

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Interview with Edward Park, Insteegram

socalTECH

Users of the Instagram mobile application--which runs on iPhone and Android--are familiar with how that app has become one of the key ways people socialize and share their life with others, all via the service's photo sharing and comments. Edward Park: My background is screen printing and production. What is Insteegram about?

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

Initially the computer did basic functions like “screen validation” (making sure that you didn’t enter non-sensical data into fields, for example) and could take over functions like compiling your software code so you could check for errors before submitting it to the mainframe. .” He’s right about this.

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Interview with Sunil Rajaraman, Scripped

socalTECH

Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 Zak had an idea for a screen writing magazine, and was trying to make it as a screenwriter, and found out there was a lack of good resources for people trying to scrap and get to the top. That's a revenue generating service, and it's been up for a couple of months.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

He started targeting the ad by location and interest, and the number of potential people he was reaching began decreasing on screen (Facebook tells you dynamically). Last week I was having coffee with an ex engineering student of mine now on his second startup (and for a change it wasn’t a Web 2.0 they released a new 2.0

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