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		<title>Trees with one root are dumb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I often see trees that have a single root item at Level 1. This root item is one parent from which the entire tree is descended (in the example below this is &#8220;Acme-MSU&#8221;). Because it&#8217;s there, all the other items in the tree are indented an extra 20 pixels. In any tree control the horizontal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tworivers.com/blog/archives/428</link>
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		<title>Problems with trees &amp; navigation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The tree control is a popular choice for navigation in large, complex, web applications, but it&#8217;s one that I usually avoid. I avoid it because I think trees have a number of serious usability problems, which I&#8217;ll share here today.
What&#8217;s a tree control?
Let&#8217;s start with a brief introduction to the tree control. This control is present [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tworivers.com/blog/archives/297</link>
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		<title>The Minibar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I gave a talk last week on Navigation in large, complex applications at the UIE Web Master&#8217;s Tour (LukeW did a lovely writeup here, if you want an overview), so now I want to pick up the topic a bit more in my writing. Today, I want to showcase a navigation widget that I&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tworivers.com/blog/archives/405</link>
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		<title>Revive Double Click</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;d like to reintroduce and improve double click in web based applications.
Double Click
On the desktop double click always meant edit. If you double click on a file, you open the application that edits that file. If you double click on a button in Dreamweaver, you get the properties for that button. A single click [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tworivers.com/blog/archives/385</link>
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		<title>OmniGraffle &amp; the Application Map</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past when I&#8217;ve spoken about Web Applications and Navigation systems in particular, I have mentioned hub &#38; spoke diagramming and even shown a few simple hub &#38; spoke diagrams that I&#8217;ve created. I&#8217;ve started calling these diagrams Application Maps, rather than Hub &#38; Spoke diagram. Today I wanted to show a video of an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tworivers.com/blog/archives/374</link>
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		<title>Design Momentum</title>
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Design is an act of creation. All designers suffer from &#8220;Designer&#8217;s Block&#8221; from time to time. Everyone who has designed has experienced this block, usually followed some time later by the &#8220;ah hah!&#8221; moment in the shower or during a walk.
I work hard to nurture the creative inside of me &#8211; to give it what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tworivers.com/blog/archives/367</link>
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		<title>Navigation: Widget vs. Logic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We work with a lot of clients that are struggling with their navigation systems. Usually these are large, complex applications that have grown over time (with little or no planning). Therefore, the navigation system is also large and complex. When we&#8217;re asked to fix these systems, one of the first things I try to identify [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tworivers.com/blog/archives/352</link>
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		<title>Disruptive design: TiVo &amp; iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LukeW posted a tweet today: &#8221;revolutionary changes&#8230; they&#8217;re harder&#8230; you usually go through a period where everybody tells you you&#8217;ve completely failed&#8221; &#8211; Steve Jobs
It got me thinking about disruptive designs, and in particular the TiVo. We bought our first TiVo a little over 10 years ago. At the time, I thought it would be nice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tworivers.com/blog/archives/343</link>
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		<title>Stop nesting menus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started my career as an interaction designer working on desktop applications. I designed for the Windows, Apple and Motif interfaces (and still do). Each of those platforms had a toolkit of interaction controls that we could use: buttons, text fields, radio buttons, check boxes, and of course menus. We had a menubar and also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tworivers.com/blog/archives/267</link>
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		<title>I appeared on SpoolCast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spoke with Jared Spool earlier this month about Escaping Navigation Hell, which is the title of my upcoming talk at the UIE Web App Masters Tour. We talked about some of my crazy ideas for navigation systems:

I design screens in the application without the navigation system
I treat navigation as its own application, with its own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tworivers.com/blog/archives/294</link>
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