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RDF For The Rest Of Us
07/30/07 - Developed by Keith Alexander
We're rapidly getting to the point where most web developers have a decent grasp of what it means to use semantic markup, but how many of us really grasp the implications of the Semantic Web? Keith Alexander walks us through the theory and practice of RDF on the web.

Defeated By a Dialog Box
07/23/07 - Developed by Jakob Nielsen
Interaction techniques that deviate from common GUI standards can create usability catastrophes that make applications impossible to use.

Colorblindness - A Usability Guide for Commercial Applications, Part 1
03/06/07 - Developed by Anthony Mitchell
Ten percent of men but less than one percent of women are estimated to have some form of colourblindness. Identifying opportunities to make products usable by as many people as possible, is not always well understood or practiced.

The Problem with Rapid E-Learning
02/14/07 - Developed by Joe Fournier
An exploration of some of the pitfalls of rapid e-learning and how to overcome them.