Links: 12-24-2008

Rands In Repose: A Signature Cadence
Quote: "This conversational tone has a purpose. By sounding like a human, these small wording decisions push the technology out of the way to reveal what we really care about: the people."
(categories: ux language usability people voice )
Alex Payne | Life As A Series of Queues
Quote: "My suspicion is that there’s a market in making each and every one of those queues smaller, if not making them disappear entirely." Bigger market: being able to prioritize across queues.
(categories: data productivity queueing queue )
Quick Turnaround Usability Testing, Part II – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
Good stuff on usability testing.
(categories: ux ui process testing usability usability-testing )
Web-Based UML Sequence Diagram / MSC Generator
Big fan of the napkin style.
(categories: graph visualization programming tools utilities )

Links: 12-23-2008

HTTP Client – Mac Developer Tool for HTTP Debugging
Still not as amazing as Fiddler, but a nice substitute if you’re not on Windows.
(categories: software http debugging osx tools )