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	<title>My career adventures</title>
	<link>http://www.elsacanto.com</link>
	<description>10 years making websites!</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:32:25 +0000</lastBuildDate>
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		<title>Essential activities in a UCD project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[User-centred 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 users at key points in the project to make sure the site will deliver upon their requirements.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elsacanto.com/userexperience/essential-activities-in-a-ucd-project</link>
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		<title>Usability checklist can save your day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve found these  25 points Website  Usability Checklist, very useful to use  when you are working in a web redesign project.   There are many things to evaluate: Accesibility, Identity, Navigation and Content.
Accessibility
1. Site load‐time is reasonable
2. Adequate text‐to‐background contrast
3. Font size/spacing is easy to read
4. Flash &#38; add‐ons are used sparingly
5. Images [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elsacanto.com/usability/usability-checklist-can-save-your-day</link>
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		<title>Some User Experience Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was looking for some tools that can help me in my daily work and some others that I supposed I will use someday when I have the chance. So I make a little list of tools.  Most of the things I actually do are site maps and wireframes, I would like to participate in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elsacanto.com/articles/some-user-experience-tools</link>
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		<title>Thinking about the User</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something fundamental to usability and a successful user experience is the focus on users.  Sometimes designers have little time to concentrate on users and even less time to interact or observe them.  We are focus in delivery dates and technical problems.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elsacanto.com/usability/thinking-about-the-user</link>
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		<title>bing: Some thoughts about Usability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was checking the new Microsoft’s search engine bing, and my first thinking was: “this is a very graphic search engine, that uses powerful imagery that’s is eye catching&#8230;it’s nice”.  I see that there is no search button, even I don’t see the word “search” on the homepage!  I like the image background, that seems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elsacanto.com/articles/bing-some-thoughts-about-usability</link>
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		<title>A funny registration form&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to force someone in a web form registration to include its photo profile?
Sometimes user experience professionals and web designers gets very creative,  I&#8217;m still laughing since I found this registration form in which they ask people to include their general information and photo.
But take a look at the &#8220;Upload Photo&#8221; section, this is an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elsacanto.com/general/fun-tip-on-registration-form</link>
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		<title>Wordpress 2.7 Control Panel Interface Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love Wordpress, but I have to said that the interface design of the admin area that have this 2.7 version sometimes confuse me.  I know some people that doesn’t want to update their blogs to this version because of the control panel interface.   I understand that the horizontal menu navigation in 2.5 has their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elsacanto.com/articles/wordpress-27-control-panel-interface-design</link>
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		<title>UXPanama.net: The User Experience Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi, my friends, since my partners Harold and Jorge came from the AI Summit 09 we are doing some efforts to create a UX Community here in Panama.  Through informal meetings, we are trying to connect people in the industry, learn, share information, help grow the discipline and our own practice here.
Every month we are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elsacanto.com/userexperience/uxpanamanet-the-user-experience-community</link>
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		<title>Selling User eXperience in Panama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I said before, here in Panama it&#8217;s very difficult to sale UX because people don&#8217;t understand the value of User Experience for their projects, they want to go directly to Visual Design.
So I was thinking, we have done some interesting UX projects here but we need to push hard and educate the client if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elsacanto.com/articles/selling-user-experience-in-panama</link>
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		<title>Website aesthetics influences people</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: Webcredible.co.uk
We all like to think that we make rational decisions, considering the functional nature of products, aesthetics clearly influences people and their choices.
Make sure fonts are legible

Ensure you use a suitable size
No matter how good the content, there&#8217;s no point providing it if users can&#8217;t see it. Small fonts can be annoying to those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elsacanto.com/articles/website-aesthetics-influences-people</link>
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