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Any design patterns for customising RSS subscriptions?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Piero Ardizone Jul 29, 2011.

Re-skin old web-apps: Yes or no?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Rajat Bhardwaj Jun 21, 2011.

 

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Piero Ardizone replied to Jerome Ryckborst's discussion Any design patterns for customising RSS subscriptions?
"I've seen one version that pops open a mega-menu listing various feeds when the rss icon is clicked, but it's only so scalable.   Alternately, you could display a large scrollable modal to provide more real estate and…"
Jul 29, 2011
Shawn M. Capizzi replied to Jerome Ryckborst's discussion Any design patterns for customising RSS subscriptions?
"Hello Jerome, interesting problem. Give me a ring/email I'd love to discuss. Best - Shawn  "
Jul 28, 2011
Jerome Ryckborst posted a discussion

Any design patterns for customising RSS subscriptions?

Our large government website has tons of info getting published on it. We'd like to provide a way for users to choose what they subscribe to.Is there a successful (usable) model out there for users to customise their RSS feed from our site? Any design patterns? Or is the only way to simply provide a long list of choices? -=- JeromeSee More
Jul 22, 2011
Jerome Ryckborst replied to Guy Harvey's discussion Do you work in government?
"I work in municipal government.   1. What is the most pressing UX need that [our city] government has for this coming year? A: Coming up with an IT vision that informs the planning and proejct prioritisation for IT and UX, for several…"
Jul 20, 2011
Rajat Bhardwaj replied to Jerome Ryckborst's discussion Re-skin old web-apps: Yes or no?
"Hi Jerome, These kind of decisions are generally made by business keeping in view the budget constraints for the project. When team has to redesign the whole layout in phase 2, reskining the old application might not be a good idea and would demand…"
Jun 21, 2011
Jerome Ryckborst replied to Trupti Patil's discussion Should the radio button have a default value selected
"I agree: what are the consequences of providing a default? Alan Cooper, in his book About Face, talks about how we shouldn't treat data as holy when fixing the data—capturing perfect data—is at the user's expense. He…"
Jun 13, 2011
Jerome Ryckborst posted a discussion

Re-skin old web-apps: Yes or no?

During Phase 1 of our current web project—a site with thousands of pages and 38 legacy web applications for several groups of users—we're focusing on content strategy and implementing a CMS. The web applications are "usability-inelegant" and they also don't share data between them (though they should). They are slated to be fixed in Phase 2. A simple example is illustrated (attached).For Phase 1, one suggestion is to reskin the web-applications to match the look of the new site—no text changes,…See More
Jun 13, 2011

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