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Whether you have mockups, sketches, images or real webpages, you can do remote usability testing. Glad to see this market coming alive - it's been a long time coming!

Found via appsumo offer.

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Between Customer Development (Lean Startup) work, and Usability/User Experience testing lately, I'm more involved that ever in making useful interactions a reality.

Looking at UserTesting as a possible panel-driven source for upcoming work.

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Great, quick summary of tools - focused on startups, but could be tweaked for internal, enterprise use.

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Quite the incredible collection of startup-related materials - very heavily leaning towards software companies as the startup target audience, but it can all be extended into services or other arenas.

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A reader mentioned this list of tools - quite the collection. Great to see that iPads and iPhones, as well as other smartphones, and the increasing sophistication of web apps, is driving an explosion of options and competition in the thinking apps world.

"From smart phones to iPads to our various personal computers and data managers, we have all kinds of tools at our disposal to help us collect information for school work, business, personal use, and more. But even though it’s easy to find, that information still needs to be stored, saved and even shared in a way that’s also simplified."

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Collection of a variety of IA tools from the IA Institute. Some social feedback on this collection would be might useful - and find it hard to believe that most of these artifacts haven't evolved since being posted between 1-7 years ago.

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Flash-less, web-based application for wireframes. More options than ever in this space. Getting Enterprise designers/developers to actually use them? Priceless. (But be prepared to defend against "let's just build the full working site/app - that's the 'real test'" discussion...)

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I met Geoff at the Front End of Innovation in 2009, when we were speaking on the same track at the event. Sharp guy, and he's definitely going places (such as the new position he accepted with Seek). Nice wrap-up and examination of the major players in the idea management and innovation management space.

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I've said it before - many different types/styles of collaboration. This is light-weight, but that's the point. Faster and easier feedback beats little to no feedback, every time.

"Protonotes are notes that you add to your prototype that allow project team members to discuss system functionality, design, and requirements directly on the prototype. You can think of it like a discussion board/wiki in direct context of your prototype. "

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Create what LOOKS like paper prototypes. Interesting integration into various wiki platforms as a way to connect documentation code and the prototypes supporting them.

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Browser-based "realtime" twitter stream, based on search terms you control. Quite flexible, seems to be very stable, built with a "presentation mode" to remove all navigation extras for "live" streams in conferences, etc..

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Having a variety of options available for prototyping is always a worthy idea.

"This is a set of shapes for making wireframes (low-fidelity web page schematics) in OmniGraffle version 5.x (Mac OS X). It consists of most of the basic elements you'll need to create user interface specifications. The screenshots below show different stencils in this set."

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Image-editing via SaaS. Exploring the full possibilities of going "all in" for SaaS, hosted, or cloud options. Found this to be a bit buggy, but then again, I have 70 tabs open in Firefox.

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Interesting collection of ways to access Gmail - mobile, secure, without javascript, etc..

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Just in case I pick up an Xbox 360... "for the kids" of course. Steam audio, video, photos from OS X to Xbox.

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Findability of a different sort - Google Audio Indexing (or GAUDI - not the architect, nor the Alan Parsons album) is up and running in the Google Labs, enabling text-based search of political videos on YouTube. Again, more than one way to approach findab

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I don't code all that much any more, but to scratch that itch - here are some recommended resources for Ruby on Rails. Anyone doing Rails in the Enterprise? Get in touch.

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Nice writeup of some options for working entirely online. In the end, there is no one place to shop for the ubersolution, still piecemeal.

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Found via http://www.thecontentwrangler.com/ - a "web service" that can capture screenshots of web pages along with WORKING hyperlinks (via image maps, auto-generated). Post to flickr, tumblr, and more. Give it a whirl!

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Here's a site I don't view nearly often enough. If you admire (and aspire) to understandable, and even pleasing information presentation (ala Tufte, for example), you need to go here. Now! Really!

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