Participatory design is an approach to design that attempts to actively involve end users in the design process to help ensure that the product designed meets their needs and is usable. This approach is focused on process and is not a design style. For some, this approach has a political dimension of user empowerment and democratisation. For others, it is seen as a way of abrogating design responsibility and innovation by designers.
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Shows how to create a stroke layer style in Photoshop CS2 to quickly add a custom border to your photos.
Kloskowski, Matt. Planet Photoshop (2006). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
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Now you can add drop shadows automatically in Adobe InDesign. Sandee Cohen shows how to feather shadow edges and adjust transparency to get the results you want.
Cohen, Sandee. Adobe (2004). Design>Document Design>Graphic Design
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Add Functionality to Quick, Easy Site Deployment
More than a Web content management system, Octigon President James Smith calls Octane8 a deployment platform. What exactly can you deploy with Octane8? To name a few: public Internet sites, private intranet and extranet sites; sites for the group you'll be collaborating with for the next two weeks; sites with pages that sell; and sites with pages that inform.
Pastore, Michael. Intranet Journal (2003). Design>Content Management>Web Design
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Add Inspiration With Illustrations
Which comes first, the concept or the artwork? The assumption has always been that you first figure out the concept, then find the art to fit. But even if we leave many things in our life unquestioned--design shouldn't be one of them.
Will-Harris, Daniel. Typofile (2003). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design
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Add Interactivity With Rollovers
Want to spice up your Web pages with rollovers? Learn how to use GoLive CS to create two types of rollovers.
Adobe (2003). Design>Web Design>Software>Adobe GoLive
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Add Zip to Your Site without Coding 
Wilkinson offers tips on adding free JavaScript subroutines to Web sites. She lists several Web sites that give away free scripts.
Wilkinson, Theresa A. Intercom (2000). Design>Web Design>DHTML
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The ADDIE model is the generic process traditionally used by instructional designers and training developers. The five phases—Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation—represent a dynamic, flexible guideline for building effective training and performance support tools.
InstructionalDesign.org. Articles>Education>Instructional Design>Methods
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A nice feature in Acrobat is the ability to 'name' or label pages with meaningful descriptions rather than just page numbers. This can be very useful if your PDF document contains in introduction section and is then split into sections or has specific chapter numbers. By adding Page Labels to a page or even a range of pages you instantly get to that section by typing it's name in the Page Number box at the bottom of the screen (on the status bar).
Wraight, Dave. PlanetPDF (2001). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat
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Adding Reflections to Water in Photoshop
Denny Tang shows how to add sparkle to your images of water in this Photoshop tutorial.
Tang, Denny. Graphics.com (2005). Design>Graphic Design>Image Editing>Adobe Photoshop
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As long as there's been a Web, there's been a need for search engines. Because of the volume of information that's available out there, people will always need help finding what they want. Nowadays, it's commonplace for individual sites, even personal homepages, to have their own search capabilities, and so a slew of new services have appeared to help you quickly and easily add search to your site.
Rappoport, Avi. Webmonkey (2000). Design>Web Design>Search
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Adding Semantics to SGML Databases
Technical writers who must maintain complex, delicately interconnected information often look to object-oriented SGML databases as a way of storing, retrieving, reusing, and reassembling the constituent objects of new documents, created on the fly to respond to a particular customer’s needs. The SGML tags help identify structural packages such as procedures, illustrations, or glossary items; in a large database, then, writers can filter out unwanted material, locating only the structural pieces they need for the job in hand. For instance, to produce a quick reference, a writer might pull up the names of procedures and their steps, but not the introductions or explanations. Similarly, a user could search for illustrations only. But illustrations of what? With no subject matter defined, such searches result in hundreds, even tens of thousands of hits. To speed up access to the precise passages wanted, end users and writers need a way to narrow their searches by defining the precise subject matter (the meaning, or semantics) as well as the structural elements they seek.
Mazumdar, Subhasish, Weifeng Bao, Zhengang Yuan and Jonathan R. Price. Communication Circle, The (1998). Design>Information Design>SGML>Semantic
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Adding Sticky Buttons to a Framed Site
Describes how to create a type of DHTML interactivity using Adobe GoLive.
Shadovitz, Deborah. Mac Design Magazine (2003). Design>Web Design>DHTML>Adobe GoLive
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Adding User Annotations to Help Topics
This article discusses a feature called User Annotations, whereby users can add their own custom notes to Help topics, and presents a method for implementing it in web pages or in HTML Help topics.
Gash, Dave. WritersUA (2002). Design>Documentation
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Adding Value through Search Engine Optimization
The easiest way to increase your added value is to do small things that have a large positive return for the company. If you’re looking to find something easy to do that has a large positive impact on your value, look no further than thinking about search engines and how your portion of a Web site can be optimized for them.
K'necht, Alan. Digital Web Magazine (2003). Design>Web Design>Search>Search Engine Optimization
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Adding Zip to Your Site Without Coding
I have been playing around with scripting for about six months now. I would by no means call myself a programmer yet, but I have successfully added many scripts to various Web sites. How did I do it without attending any programming classes or immersing myself with programming books? I used free scripts from Web sites. I have found many Web sites that offer scripts for just about anything you can imagine.
Leonard-Wilkinson, Theresa A. W-edge Design (2000). Design>Web Design>DHTML
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Adducive: Articles about User Interface Design
Tips and articles on software user interface design, including handheld, speech recognition, desktop, and web-based software, with a focus on the software development process and issues in internationalization. The site also describes services offered and my approach to user interface design.
Krause, Brian R. Adducive.com (1998). Design>User Interface>Software
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L'aderenza agli Standard di Screen Reader e Browser Vocali
Uno studio comparativo di 5 prodotti evidenzia come Jaws di Freedom Scientific e Home Page Reader di IBM siano gli strumenti che meglio interpretano le linee guida per l'accessibilità web.
D'Amour, Jean-Marie and Catherine Ro. FucinaWeb (2002). (Italian) Design>Web Design>Accessibility>Web Browsers
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Adobe Acrobat Accessibility Techniques
Some sites would hardly exist at all if they took down their PDF files (PDF stands for 'Portable Document Format'). This format is an incredibly useful format for some situations, providing a method to post content on the Web that will print exactly as the author intended it to. Creating PDF files is faster and easier than creating HTML files in many cases. This increases its allure for Web developers.
WebAIM (2004). Design>Web Design>Accessibility>Adobe Acrobat
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A collection of dozens of Dreamweaver resources and tutorials.
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Adobe FrameMaker 7.1: Fast Software for Long Documents
Producers of technical documentation have long sung the praises of Adobe FrameMaker, but other print designers may wonder what's the big deal. That may change with FrameMaker 7.1, which includes powerful QuarkXPress and PageMaker filters and whizzy conditional-text features.
Glinert, Susan. Creative Pro (2004). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
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Adobe FrameMaker Autonumbering Examples 
Autonumbering had changed as new versions of FrameMaker have arrived. What worked in FrameMaker 5 might have broken in 5.5. This is due to changes Adobe made in the restart building blocks (request presentation). While our examples below use the maximum building blocks (meaning a little extra work), the result is numbering schemes that are more flexible for multiple versions of FrameMaker.
Bright Path Solutions (2004). Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
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Wallia reviews the latest Adobe Web-authoring software.
Wallia, C.J.S. Intercom (2001). Design>Web Design>Software>Adobe GoLive
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This InDesign class will give you the basics on which you can then develop further skills and become proficient at using this powerful layout program. Further articles will be written to develop some subjects that might need to be taken more in-depth.
Bruno, Elisabetta. About.com. Resources>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
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Get up to speed on some of the exciting new features in Adobe® InDesign® 2.0 with the following tutorials. Each consists of a Flash movie as well as step-by-step instructions and sample files for download, so you can follow along within InDesign. For demonstrations of key features, take a video tour in the InDesign 2.0 overview.
Adobe (2002). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
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Wallia reviews the latest version of Adobe's desktop publishing software.
Wallia, C.J.S. Intercom (2001). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe PageMaker
