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		<title>Not so much is wrong with wireframes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In her article about wireframes Christina Wodtke, the author of &#8220;Information Architecture &#8211; Blueprints for the Web&#8221; discusses the use of wireframes in the design process. I agree with some of her thoughts, but in my view she missed one.
The first argument against wireframes is that they emasculate the designer. Yes, they do and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designitsimple.de/2010/01/not-so-much-is-wrong-with-wireframes/</link>
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		<title>Send and archive e-mails VBA macro in Outlook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago a friend asked me if it is possible in Outlook to select the folder where a email is saved after it is being sent. He had this feature in Lotus Notes and wanted this also in Outlook so that he can have all messages &#8211; sent and received &#8211; for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designitsimple.de/2010/01/send-and-archive-e-mails-in-outlook/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t think business or design &#8211; think outside the box.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his article &#8220;Why Design Thinking Won&#8217;t Save You&#8221; Peter Merholz discusses business and design thinking in helping in innovation. While business thinking is a lot about spreadsheets and data analysis, design thinking is what all the creative people do when ideating new concepts.
At the end of his article, he concludes that you not only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designitsimple.de/2009/10/dont-think-business-or-design-think-outside-the-box/</link>
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		<title>Is there a crowd of wisdoms? Better ask experts.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his article about &#8220;The Wisdom of Community&#8221; Derek Powazek discusses many topics related to a very important concept of the web as of today. He covers simplicity, interface, aggregation, participation, just to name a few, and is definetly worth reading.
Especially this quote is interesting to me:
The Wisdom of Crowds (WOC) theory does not mean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designitsimple.de/2009/05/is-there-a-crowd-of-wisdoms-better-ask-experts/</link>
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		<title>Personas in High-Tech Marketing and for Crossing the Chasm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a usability test of a product website I thought about why the test users didn&#8217;t understand the product as we did it. Sure, we know it better since we work with it already for 2 years. However, even technological educated users didn&#8217;t really understand it.
Some thoughts later &#8211; and bike rides, which I usually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designitsimple.de/2009/04/personas-in-high-tech-marketing-and-for-crossing-the-chasm/</link>
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