The document provides tips for making websites user-friendly during the web development process. It recommends thinking about the intended audience and taking aspects from other appealing websites. Key steps include ensuring logical page connections and navigation cues, using templates for consistency, and testing pages before completion. Organization through a directory structure and promotion are also emphasized. Continually evaluating ways to improve the site over time is advised.
UX is way more than most people think. I believe that UX is a mindset that everyone should carry. This is how I approach UX, and think it's beneficial for everyone to know a process that works.
NOTE: This represents a talk I gave to some students embarking on a career in the UX field.
User Experience Design + Agile: The Good, The Bad, and the UglyJoshua Randall
There's a rumor going around that user experience design (UXD) and Agile don't play well together. In this talk, I'll explain that they do -- most of the time! Learn about the historical reasons for why these two disciplines sometimes butt heads, as well as the good/bad/ugly of various approaches to integrating design and development.
Imagine if designers conversed with you in a way that felt like object-oriented programming. Imagine if they handed off a design where, page after page, the objects you needed to code were edged in neon, so clearly defined they popped off the wireframe or comp. Imagine those objects were consistently presented; no one-off cases or guesswork required. Imagine you could take a design and almost create an ERD or rough out an API with it.
Well, good news. There’s no need to imagine it. It exists, and it’s called Object-Oriented UX (OOUX).
OOUX is a design methodology that helps us define usable, consistent products that naturally align with end users’ mental models. Similar to OOP, it asks us to define the objects in the real-world problem domain and design the information and relationships in each object before designing how the user might manipulate them. It's a powerful tool for any digital team, it's relatively easy to do, and it pays dividends fast.
Whether you are a developer, a designer, a content modeler, or someone who has influence over digital teams, OOUX offers a new and exciting option to add to your toolkit that will allow you to deliver better digital projects, quicker and more efficiently, and at a higher level of quality than ever before.
Presentation originally given at THAT Conference 2019
The Angry Birds Guide to Can’t Fail Social Business Adoption Mark Fidelman
Having Social Business Adoption Challenges? Check out this presentation on Adoption strategies using the best solutions and the best strategy as recommended by some of the biggest companies in the world.
NOTE: THIS IS THE NON-ANIMATED VERSION. Come see me live at SharePoint Fest in Wash DC on Aug 12, 2011 to see the fully animated version.
Web UI Design Patterns and best-practices guide from http://www.uxpin.com -- the best online wireframing, UX & product management suite available anywhere.
UX is way more than most people think. I believe that UX is a mindset that everyone should carry. This is how I approach UX, and think it's beneficial for everyone to know a process that works.
NOTE: This represents a talk I gave to some students embarking on a career in the UX field.
User Experience Design + Agile: The Good, The Bad, and the UglyJoshua Randall
There's a rumor going around that user experience design (UXD) and Agile don't play well together. In this talk, I'll explain that they do -- most of the time! Learn about the historical reasons for why these two disciplines sometimes butt heads, as well as the good/bad/ugly of various approaches to integrating design and development.
Imagine if designers conversed with you in a way that felt like object-oriented programming. Imagine if they handed off a design where, page after page, the objects you needed to code were edged in neon, so clearly defined they popped off the wireframe or comp. Imagine those objects were consistently presented; no one-off cases or guesswork required. Imagine you could take a design and almost create an ERD or rough out an API with it.
Well, good news. There’s no need to imagine it. It exists, and it’s called Object-Oriented UX (OOUX).
OOUX is a design methodology that helps us define usable, consistent products that naturally align with end users’ mental models. Similar to OOP, it asks us to define the objects in the real-world problem domain and design the information and relationships in each object before designing how the user might manipulate them. It's a powerful tool for any digital team, it's relatively easy to do, and it pays dividends fast.
Whether you are a developer, a designer, a content modeler, or someone who has influence over digital teams, OOUX offers a new and exciting option to add to your toolkit that will allow you to deliver better digital projects, quicker and more efficiently, and at a higher level of quality than ever before.
Presentation originally given at THAT Conference 2019
The Angry Birds Guide to Can’t Fail Social Business Adoption Mark Fidelman
Having Social Business Adoption Challenges? Check out this presentation on Adoption strategies using the best solutions and the best strategy as recommended by some of the biggest companies in the world.
NOTE: THIS IS THE NON-ANIMATED VERSION. Come see me live at SharePoint Fest in Wash DC on Aug 12, 2011 to see the fully animated version.
Web UI Design Patterns and best-practices guide from http://www.uxpin.com -- the best online wireframing, UX & product management suite available anywhere.
Optimizing for a faster user experience Pt 2: How-to.James Christie
From my presentation "I feel the need..the need for speed: Optimizing the User Experience", given at UXPA Boston 2014. This is the second half of the talk. The first half (are we slow? How slow? Why? And Why That's a Problem) used a ton of animation and rapid patter, and just doesn't make much sense on SlideShare without audio. I need to upload that to YouTube, someday.
UXPA 2021: Putting words in the mouths of chatbots: Designing cognitive intentsUXPA International
Presented by Jon Temple and Dabby Phipps. Chatbots have emerged as a powerful new technology in our daily lives. Sometimes they attempt to answer our questions or provide advice, while other times they ask screening questions before handing off to another human. Despite their ubiquity, the capabilities of chatbots are often misunderstood with many people believing the chatbot can generate unique answers or solve problems on its own. In reality, the answers chatbots provide are only as good as the human thought and writing that goes into creating the cognitive intents, which form the corpus of a chatbot’s knowledge base. In the following, we will describe the complex process of authoring cognitive intents, such as: what is an intent; how to select intents based on user feedback and metrics; how to improve confidence matching; and how UX research can iteratively improve intent performance. These concepts will be tied together in a chatbot demonstration.
User and Information Design Considerations for Effective Semantic SearchDesign for Context
Presented by Duane Degler, Design for Context, at the NFAIS 2019 Annual Conference in Alexandria, VA, on February 14, 2019.
Semantic search seeks to enhance the meaning in content, to more closely align the searcher and the available information resources. This means there is a strong user-centered aspect needed to unlock the benefits. What scenarios, needs, experiences, and mental models do our user bring to their search task? How does that inform our modeling of the “meaning” derived from the content? How do we avoid encoding rigidity of meaning by creating learning opportunities for both the users and the underlying search index and algorithms?
As we model content, we recognize that its character, structure, and context all matter. Alongside strategies for incorporating taxonomies and indexing the content itself, we will explore how you can prepare a knowledge graph that increases the potential for aligning meaning between your content and your users.
On the user experience side, we will introduce design approaches such as supporting iteration for exploratory search, modeling a language landscape, applying user context identification, creating feedback loops based on results selection and use, and using visual signposting for lightweight semantics in the user interface.
Hi' that's my personal portfolio of those late years (2015 to 2017).
I am working for Orange in Ivory Coast/Cote d'Ivoire for 2 years. My job as Lead UX designer is to help marketing team create and maintain great user satisfaction.
For exemple I worked on Apps, dealing with graphic and customer journey modifications. We worked in agile mode helping us in the delivery.
I've also done field searches using design methods (quanti & quali). The main objective was to ensure maket fit and if not imagine others solutions.
Feel free to get in touch with me,
I'm open to any ideas, opportunities and side projects (furthermore if it's for Africa) :)
Putting the "User" back in User ExperienceJeremy Johnson
If you ask a organization "Are you customer centric?" - of course they say "yes", but as you peel back the layers too many organizations have teams of people building products - and the user is nowhere in sight. This talk will go over a number of ways to include users in your product design process, from start to finish. It's time we truly live up to the term "User Experience".
Why Business Intelligence Projects Fail ?Exforsys Inc
Business intelligence projects are designed to allow organizations to make better long term strategic decisions. In theory, BI allows organizations to collect organize and use data in a manner that increases their market share. However, reality is often different from theory, and this is certainly true in the case of most business intelligence projects.
The Net Promoter Score - What can NPS Tell you about your User ExperienceUXPA International
While it’s obvious to us UX practitioners that any products or applications should focus on the needs and wants of the users, this type of mindset is not automatic in most profit-driven private organizations. As a result, we sometimes struggle with proving the value of users’ voice as a business priority. In this session, we share our experience of creating an NPS program at a Fortune 20 company in the U.S.. While the Net Promoter Score is not a UX metric in the traditional sense, using it strategically as an indicator of user experience has helped us build a growingly more user-centric culture at our organization. We will talk about our journey, share our tips and recommendations, and mostly things we thought could help you based on our lessons learned.
Topics include:
Principles of user interface
UI design process
Design principles
Wireframe
Graphic icon, image and colour physiology
User experience and research
This is a quick overview of my design process which I can hardly call my own, because most of it is based on the work done by various experts in the field. I have compiled this to make it easier for anyone to get a quick overview of an end to end research to development lifecycle.
Nick will explore the best practices of user experience by reviewing some of the most popular and highly trafficked websites today such as eBay, Amazon, Toyota, Flickr, Twitter, Netflix and more. Nick will identify and explain both good an bad experiences on these sites on the merits of visual design, information architecture, interaction, and ease of use. If there is time we will open the floor for audience submissions and to provide quick feedback and areas of improvement.
Design to improve, empower, and fulfill (UX India 2017 keynote)Steve Fadden
Designers have incredible powers - from understanding diverse stakeholder needs, exploring new ways to solve problems, and implementing solutions to help people accomplish their goals like never before. But with these powers come great responsibilities, and we should go further than solving business problems, improving product usability, and increasing user satisfaction. We need to consider the larger contexts in which we design, and ensure that our work is effective for audiences we can’t immediately discern. By enabling people to achieve success without sacrificing their abilities, designers can better improve, empower, and fulfill.
Optimizing for a faster user experience Pt 2: How-to.James Christie
From my presentation "I feel the need..the need for speed: Optimizing the User Experience", given at UXPA Boston 2014. This is the second half of the talk. The first half (are we slow? How slow? Why? And Why That's a Problem) used a ton of animation and rapid patter, and just doesn't make much sense on SlideShare without audio. I need to upload that to YouTube, someday.
UXPA 2021: Putting words in the mouths of chatbots: Designing cognitive intentsUXPA International
Presented by Jon Temple and Dabby Phipps. Chatbots have emerged as a powerful new technology in our daily lives. Sometimes they attempt to answer our questions or provide advice, while other times they ask screening questions before handing off to another human. Despite their ubiquity, the capabilities of chatbots are often misunderstood with many people believing the chatbot can generate unique answers or solve problems on its own. In reality, the answers chatbots provide are only as good as the human thought and writing that goes into creating the cognitive intents, which form the corpus of a chatbot’s knowledge base. In the following, we will describe the complex process of authoring cognitive intents, such as: what is an intent; how to select intents based on user feedback and metrics; how to improve confidence matching; and how UX research can iteratively improve intent performance. These concepts will be tied together in a chatbot demonstration.
User and Information Design Considerations for Effective Semantic SearchDesign for Context
Presented by Duane Degler, Design for Context, at the NFAIS 2019 Annual Conference in Alexandria, VA, on February 14, 2019.
Semantic search seeks to enhance the meaning in content, to more closely align the searcher and the available information resources. This means there is a strong user-centered aspect needed to unlock the benefits. What scenarios, needs, experiences, and mental models do our user bring to their search task? How does that inform our modeling of the “meaning” derived from the content? How do we avoid encoding rigidity of meaning by creating learning opportunities for both the users and the underlying search index and algorithms?
As we model content, we recognize that its character, structure, and context all matter. Alongside strategies for incorporating taxonomies and indexing the content itself, we will explore how you can prepare a knowledge graph that increases the potential for aligning meaning between your content and your users.
On the user experience side, we will introduce design approaches such as supporting iteration for exploratory search, modeling a language landscape, applying user context identification, creating feedback loops based on results selection and use, and using visual signposting for lightweight semantics in the user interface.
Hi' that's my personal portfolio of those late years (2015 to 2017).
I am working for Orange in Ivory Coast/Cote d'Ivoire for 2 years. My job as Lead UX designer is to help marketing team create and maintain great user satisfaction.
For exemple I worked on Apps, dealing with graphic and customer journey modifications. We worked in agile mode helping us in the delivery.
I've also done field searches using design methods (quanti & quali). The main objective was to ensure maket fit and if not imagine others solutions.
Feel free to get in touch with me,
I'm open to any ideas, opportunities and side projects (furthermore if it's for Africa) :)
Putting the "User" back in User ExperienceJeremy Johnson
If you ask a organization "Are you customer centric?" - of course they say "yes", but as you peel back the layers too many organizations have teams of people building products - and the user is nowhere in sight. This talk will go over a number of ways to include users in your product design process, from start to finish. It's time we truly live up to the term "User Experience".
Why Business Intelligence Projects Fail ?Exforsys Inc
Business intelligence projects are designed to allow organizations to make better long term strategic decisions. In theory, BI allows organizations to collect organize and use data in a manner that increases their market share. However, reality is often different from theory, and this is certainly true in the case of most business intelligence projects.
The Net Promoter Score - What can NPS Tell you about your User ExperienceUXPA International
While it’s obvious to us UX practitioners that any products or applications should focus on the needs and wants of the users, this type of mindset is not automatic in most profit-driven private organizations. As a result, we sometimes struggle with proving the value of users’ voice as a business priority. In this session, we share our experience of creating an NPS program at a Fortune 20 company in the U.S.. While the Net Promoter Score is not a UX metric in the traditional sense, using it strategically as an indicator of user experience has helped us build a growingly more user-centric culture at our organization. We will talk about our journey, share our tips and recommendations, and mostly things we thought could help you based on our lessons learned.
Topics include:
Principles of user interface
UI design process
Design principles
Wireframe
Graphic icon, image and colour physiology
User experience and research
This is a quick overview of my design process which I can hardly call my own, because most of it is based on the work done by various experts in the field. I have compiled this to make it easier for anyone to get a quick overview of an end to end research to development lifecycle.
Nick will explore the best practices of user experience by reviewing some of the most popular and highly trafficked websites today such as eBay, Amazon, Toyota, Flickr, Twitter, Netflix and more. Nick will identify and explain both good an bad experiences on these sites on the merits of visual design, information architecture, interaction, and ease of use. If there is time we will open the floor for audience submissions and to provide quick feedback and areas of improvement.
Design to improve, empower, and fulfill (UX India 2017 keynote)Steve Fadden
Designers have incredible powers - from understanding diverse stakeholder needs, exploring new ways to solve problems, and implementing solutions to help people accomplish their goals like never before. But with these powers come great responsibilities, and we should go further than solving business problems, improving product usability, and increasing user satisfaction. We need to consider the larger contexts in which we design, and ensure that our work is effective for audiences we can’t immediately discern. By enabling people to achieve success without sacrificing their abilities, designers can better improve, empower, and fulfill.
Usability testing (or user testing) involves measuring the ease with which users can complete common tasks on your website. The results of the analysis are a huge eye-opener and their implementation often leads to:
Increased sales and task completion and a high rate of return site visitors
A greatly improved understanding of your customers’ needs
A significant reduction in call centre enquiries
A much more user-focused in-house development team Source: http://www.wbcsoftwarelab.com/wbcblog/read-basics-of-usability-testing
This presentation is part of a Citrix Labs workshop introducing the concepts of rapid prototyping for developers. It focuses on the creation of early samples, models, or releases of a product built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from.
Information architecture for websites and intranetsContent Formula
A quick introduction to the art and science of information architecture and how we apply it at Content Formula to build effective websites and intranets
Creating great websites and applications is hard work. There are so many aspects to juggle; so much complexity to control. You have to understand the needs of your users, get buy-in from stakeholders, organize lots of content and create an intuitive interface. This is no small order.
Fortunately, nForm has created a simple resource to pass on a little of what we’ve learned about planning for great design. Our User Experience Cards feature tried-and-true methods for designing better interactive products of all kinds--from online stores to corporate intranets to mobile apps.
Learn about why these methods are needed, how they can help you achieve success, and how you can use the User Experience Cards to plan your own projects.
Designing Better Applications, Website and IntranetsDennis Breen
Creating great websites and applications is hard work. There are so many aspects to juggle; so much complexity to control. You have to understand the needs of your users, get buy-in from stakeholders, organize lots of content and create an intuitive interface. This is no small order.
Fortunately, nForm has created a simple resource to pass on a little of what we’ve learned about planning for great design. Our User Experience Cards feature tried-and-true methods for designing better interactive products of all kinds--from online stores to corporate intranets to mobile apps.
Learn about why these methods are needed, how they can help you achieve success, and how you can use the User Experience Cards to plan your own projects.
There are key things that will give you a much better chance at success. While these are well documented in numerous books, articles, and videos - there are still many stakeholders that don't subscribe to some basic truths, like: product decisions should be based on evidence, or having dedicated UX Designers on product teams.
Jeremy will go over his top ten questions to ask any team to see if they're heading toward launching a great product experience.
This presentation was originally given @ Refresh Dallas on 2/12/15
UX BASIS is a process and a set of tools to help your organization engage with your users through the online products that you develop. By building an experience around the user, it will enable you to answer their needs whilst ensuring the needs of your business are also fulfilled.
Evidence based design creates a greater value for your business and also encourages collaboration between your teams and results in knowledge sharing between individuals.
This talk was given at a meeting of web project managers (organised by J.Boye) in May 2010.
If we keep the conventional wisdom aside, coding is not the most important part of the website development life cycle. Actually, it is secondary. What is more important is the planning and strategizing the entire process and ensuring that it meets the client’s need.
"A scenario is a description of a person’s interaction with a system.
Scenarios help focus design efforts on the user’s requirements, which are distinct from technical or business requirements.
Scenarios may be related to ‘use cases’, which describe interactions at a technical level. Unlike use cases, however, scenarios can be understood by people who do not have any technical background. They are therefore suitable for use during participatory design activities." http://infodesign.com.au/usabilityresources/scenarios/
Get hands-on advice for rapid Agile prototyping in a product team.
You'll learn:
- How to determine the right depth and breadth for MVP prototypes.
- How to prioritize use cases for prototyping.
- How to elicit the right stakeholder and user feedback.
- How to correctly annotate prototypes for dev and QA.
Design Document written partially for an assignment as a graduate student at the University of Southern California for the Techniques in Data Visualization course I took with wireframes used in the creation for an actual web application.
MInistry 2 Pensacola: A User-Centered Approach to Web DesignMatt Carlisle
It is our responsibility as Christians to harness the power of the Web to spread Christ’s message throughout the world. While the Great Commission makes clear our marching orders, it is Christ’s example that nudges us to the edge of the pier and encourages each of us to cast a broad net.
During this workshop, Matt will share with you his user-centered approach to church website design — a process that you can easily implement when designing, redesigning or simply managing your website.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
FIDO Alliance Osaka Seminar: The WebAuthn API and Discoverable Credentials.pdf
Create free website
1. Create free website : Part I
Using "Titles" With Your Web Links & Images
Using "Title Tags" for your web links & images is an arsenal many companies fail to utilize. These tags
will help search engines to navigate through your information.
In the last topic we talked about Meta Tags within your web site source code. We also discussed how
important it is to use the same words in your content that you included within your meta tags.
Another tip for your to complete your web page optimization is to include title tags for your relevant
images.
Title Tags For Your Images:
It's well known that more and more people are now searching "Goggles Image Search Engine" People
love to find images, why not help them find the images related to your business?
Let's say you sell cars, wouldn't it be nice to have all your cars listed online found within that "Goggles
Image Search Engine"? This feature will allow more people to find your web site.
Tip #1 When Utilizing Titles On Your Images:
Creating titles or utilizing the "Alt" command as we say will let a search engine know what the image is
about.
Like mentioned before, search engines are nothing more than robots going through your web site. They
don't stop to look at your images, they only see the code.
Providing a title or Alt command for your image will allow the search engine to know what the image is
all about which will increase your web sites content relevancy.
2. Tip #2 When Considering Image Links:
When using an image for a web link to another page, give your image a name that is meaning full to
your service or product.
Ex. Well use this image below that will link to this page!
Using Title Tags
1. I've linked the image button to this page called "Using Title Tags"
2. I've named the image button "using_title_tags.gif"
3. The title of the image is: "Using Title Tags"
All of these steps will let the search engines know exactly what the image is about! Yes, I agree all these
steps seem like a lot of work but in the end, when your sales are up, you won't be thinking about how
much work it took but how successful you have become.
Notice how all these steps have given 3 "Key Phrases" for search engines to look at to determine the
meaning of the image.
1. ( a href= ) - The web link command to another page
2. ( img src= ) - Where to find the image and what it's called
3. ( alt= ) - The title of the image
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Let's recap what you've learned so far...
3. - Search Engines are robots that look for "Meta Tags" & "Web Page Content"
- Meta Tags include: 1) Title, 2) Description, 3) Create free websites
- Make sure your Meta Tags describe your web page content
- Add a relevant Title to your web links
- Add a relevant "Alt Title" to your images for more visitors
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thousand bucks. But you can do the whole thing yourself and make it drag and drop simple for mere
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Create free website : End of Part I
User-centered design (UCD) - 6 methods
User-centered design (UCD) is a project approach that puts the intended users of a site at the centre of
its design and development. It does this by talking directly to the user at key points in the project to
make sure the site will deliver upon their requirements.
The stages are carried out in an iterative fashion, with the cycle being repeated until the project's
usability objectives have been attained. This makes it critical that the participants in these methods
accurately reflect the profile of your actual users.
Focus groups
What are they?
4. A focus group involves encouraging an invited group of intended/actual users of a site (i.e. participants)
to share their thoughts, feelings, attitudes and ideas on a certain subject.
Organising focus groups within an organisation can also be very useful in getting buy-in to a project from
within that company.
When to use
Focus groups are most often used as an input to design. They generally produce non-statistical data and
are a good means of getting information about a domain (e.g. what peoples' tasks involve).
Issues
It's necessary to have an experienced moderator and analyst for a focus group to be effective.
Usability testing
What is it?
Usability testing sessions evaluate a site by collecting data from people as they use it. A person is invited
to attend a session in which they'll be asked to perform a series of tasks while a moderator takes note of
any difficulties they encounter.
Users can be asked to follow the think-aloud protocol which asks them to verbalise what they're doing
and why they're doing it.
You can also time users to see how long it takes them to complete tasks, which is a good measure of
efficiency (although you should bear in mind that using the 'think aloud' protocol will slow users down
considerably).
Two specialists' time is normally required per session - one to moderate, one to note problems.
5. When to use
Usability testing can be used as an input to design or at the end of a project. It represents an excellent
way finding out what the most likely usability problems with a site are likely to be.
Usability testing can be used generate non-statistical or statistical data.
Issues
Usability testing requires some form of design to be available to test - even if it's only on paper. Testing
works best if it focuses either on gathering non-statistical feedback on a design through 'talk aloud' or
statistical measures.
Card sorting
What is it?
Card sorting is a method for suggesting intuitive structures/categories. A participant is presented with
an unsorted pack of index cards. Each card has a statement written on it that relates to a page of the
site.
The participant is asked to sort these cards into groups and then to name these groups. The results of
multiple individual sorts are then combined and analysed statistically.
When to use
Card sorting is usually used as an input to design. It's an excellent way of suggesting good categories for
a site's content and deriving its information architecture.
Card sorting can be used generate statistical data.
6. Issues
Providing participants with a trial run on some easy cards (e.g. sports, animals, etc.) can reassure about
what they are expected to do and result in a more productive session.
Participatory design
What is it?
Participatory design does not just ask users opinions on design issues, but actively involves them in the
design and decision-making processes.
When to use
Participatory design is usually used within a mini-project to generate prototypes that feed into an overall
project's design process.
An example would be a participatory design workshop in which developers, designers and users work
together to design an initial prototype. This initial prototype would then feed into a more traditional
design process.
Projects which only utilise participatory design are very rare.
Issues
Participatory design sessions can be very fluid and require an experienced moderator with thorough
knowledge of the domain to guide them.
Questionnaires
7. What are they?
Questionnaires are a means of asking users for their responses to a pre-defined set of questions and are
a good way of generating statistical data.
When to use
Questionnaires are usually employed when a design team:
Can only gain remote access to users of a site
Is seeking a larger sample size than can be realistically achieved through direct contact
It is for this reason that questionnaires are usually administered through post or electronic means.
Issues
Questionnaires allow statistical analysis of results, which can increase a study's credibility through its
scientific appearance. This makes it all the more important that the questionnaire is well-designed and
asks non-biased questions.
Interviews
What are they?
An interview usually involves one interviewer speaking to one participant at a time.
The advantages of an interview are that a participant's unique point of view can be explored in detail. It
is also the case that any misunderstandings between the interviewer and the participant are likely to be
quickly identified and addressed.
8. The output of an interview is almost exclusively non-statistical - it's critical that reports of interviews are
carefully analysed by experienced practitioners.
When to use
Interviews are usually employed early in the design process in order to gain a more detailed
understanding of a domain/area of activity or specific requirements.
Issues
Interviewing places a high premium on the experience and skill of the interviewer and analyst.
Conclusion
This has been an introduction to the major user-centered design methods. It's vital to remember that
although each can be extremely valuable, using them in the right way, for the right reasons and at the
right time is critical.
Exactly which method to use, and when and how to use it will differ from project to project.
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Create free website : End of Part II
User Friendly Web Development
9. It’s not very difficult to create a web development that is user friendly. It only takes some thinking
ahead. When initiating web development the first thing to think about is the audience. The content and
style should cater the audience preferences. A web designer should take a look at the sites that they
commonly visit and take note the qualities that are most appealing. What makes this website so
appealing? Is it the graphics that are offered? Does the text seem to flow logically? Piecing together
positive aspects of different websites will aid in the basic concept of the desired web design.
These aspects that have been taken from other websites can be pieced together to form the desired
web design. However, in a web development plan always think about the user. A website is designed for
a person to come on and use. If the website is not user friendly then usage will be low. There for keep in
mind the visitor when creating a web design. In web development think like the average web surfer that
is visiting the website for the first time. Make sure that the pages connect logically for the user. Don’t
forget to provide them with information and navigation cues. Having a way for them to be able to
navigate between pages efficiently will aid so much. Never underestimate the use of the back cue on a
website.
A good knowledge in HTML in web development should not be forgotten. It is valuable in the
implementation of the website. Templates will help keep consistency in the development of the
website. If at all possible test the web page before it is finished. This will make sure that the web
development that was implemented had the desired effect and is indeed user friendly. Another aspect
to include that will keep the development plan user friendly is to create an extendable directory and a
basic file structure. Organization is the key.
Once everything has come to fruition it does not necessarily mean that the web development is
complete. Continuously think of new ways to make things better. Web development never finishes. It
continues to change and get better over time with the addition of new forms of technology and better
ways to help visitors to the website use it. Once the web development is successful in its
implementation promote it in every venue possible. Don’t keep a good thing hidden. Link the website
with others and do not underestimate the power of word of mouth. Taking into account all of these
things in web development will create a productive user friendly website.
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