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Suning Design
Suning Design
May 23, 2014 · Frontend Development

Mastering Information Architecture Diagrams: Essential Symbols and Best Practices

This guide explains the essential symbols and conventions for creating information architecture diagrams, covering pages, files, groups, connections, arrows, concurrent events, link points, areas, processes, and various conditional elements to help web development teams effectively communicate system structure and interaction design.

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Mastering Information Architecture Diagrams: Essential Symbols and Best Practices
ITPUB
ITPUB
May 23, 2014 · Databases

Expert Answers to Top SQL Server 2014 Memory‑Optimized Table Questions

In this technical Q&A, Microsoft SQL Server experts address common migration challenges, performance tuning tips, memory‑optimized table limitations, and best practices for SQL Server 2014, providing concrete guidance, reference links, and practical recommendations for database administrators.

SQL ServerSQL Server 2014database migration
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Expert Answers to Top SQL Server 2014 Memory‑Optimized Table Questions
Baidu Tech Salon
Baidu Tech Salon
May 22, 2014 · Fundamentals

Reflections on Clojure: Design, Simplicity, and Development Flow

After years of using Ruby, I discovered that Clojure’s carefully designed, concise, and functional nature not only makes prototyping feel natural but also provides instant feedback and encourages thoughtful refactoring, turning development into a smooth, enjoyable flow that has quickly become my favorite language.

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Reflections on Clojure: Design, Simplicity, and Development Flow
Suning Design
Suning Design
May 22, 2014 · Fundamentals

Boost Your UI Prototypes: 6 Essential Interaction Design Practices

This guide revisits classic interaction‑design cases, showing how contrast, proper use of screenshots, first‑screen height, grid compliance, layout spacing, and clear UI logic can dramatically improve prototype quality and streamline collaboration with visual designers.

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Boost Your UI Prototypes: 6 Essential Interaction Design Practices
Baidu Tech Salon
Baidu Tech Salon
May 21, 2014 · Frontend Development

Show‑off JavaScript Techniques to Impress Others

The article showcases a suite of flashy JavaScript tricks—alternative anonymous‑function syntaxes, the void operator for undefined, logical‑operator conditionals, optional semicolons, early ES6 features, AMD wrapping, the Function constructor, and native DOM selectors—while warning that some shortcuts hurt readability and should be used sparingly.

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Show‑off JavaScript Techniques to Impress Others
Baidu Tech Salon
Baidu Tech Salon
May 20, 2014 · Cloud Computing

How Baidu’s Private Cloud Tackles Resource Management, Tiered Release, and Elastic Services

In a Baidu technical salon, Xu Liqiang detailed the evolution of Baidu’s private‑cloud platform—covering unified resource pooling, performance‑cost balanced resource management, demand‑driven tiered release, and automated elastic services that together support rapid product‑line iteration across services like Tieba, Community, Search, and Mobile Cloud.

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How Baidu’s Private Cloud Tackles Resource Management, Tiered Release, and Elastic Services
Baidu Tech Salon
Baidu Tech Salon
May 19, 2014 · Cloud Computing

Redefining Multi-Tenancy in the Hybrid Cloud Era

Redefining multi‑tenancy for the hybrid cloud era, the article explains how enterprises can combine private, public, and carrier clouds using Microsoft’s Cloud OS vision and Windows Azure Pack to deliver flexible, self‑service tenant management, unified billing, and consistent user experiences across diverse infrastructures.

Cloud ComputingCloud ManagementHybrid Cloud
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Redefining Multi-Tenancy in the Hybrid Cloud Era
Suning Design
Suning Design
May 19, 2014 · Fundamentals

How Color Psychology Drives Consumer Decisions and Brand Perception

This article explores how colors influence emotions, purchasing choices, and brand identity, highlighting survey data, psychological symbolism, minimalist design trends, seasonal color shifts, and practical tips for selecting effective hues to engage users and boost marketing impact.

MarketingUX designbrand perception
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How Color Psychology Drives Consumer Decisions and Brand Perception
Suning Design
Suning Design
May 15, 2014 · Mobile Development

How Beacons Transform Mobile Experiences: From Retail to Real‑World Interaction

Beacon technology creates a proximity system that lets mobile apps automatically deliver context‑aware information to users in physical spaces, enabling new experiences in museums, retail, coffee shops, hotels, and beyond while raising design, privacy, and implementation considerations.

IoTLocation‑based servicesProximity
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How Beacons Transform Mobile Experiences: From Retail to Real‑World Interaction
Suning Design
Suning Design
May 15, 2014 · Product Management

Unlocking Beacon Interaction: A Designer’s Guide to Contextual Experiences

This article breaks down Beacon technology into four interaction slices—device communication, representation, user context, and proximity response—providing designers, product managers, and developers with a clear, non‑technical framework to envision and craft innovative Beacon‑enabled experiences.

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Unlocking Beacon Interaction: A Designer’s Guide to Contextual Experiences
Suning Design
Suning Design
May 15, 2014 · Frontend Development

9 Proven Web Design Techniques to Make Your Mobile Sites Stand Out

This article outlines nine practical design strategies—ranging from subtle shadows and hover effects to responsive layouts and purposeful animations—that help modern web pages look polished, user‑friendly, and fully compatible with today’s mobile devices.

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9 Proven Web Design Techniques to Make Your Mobile Sites Stand Out
Baidu Tech Salon
Baidu Tech Salon
May 14, 2014 · Big Data

FOSS Skills and In-Demand IT Technologies for Career Success

The article warns that mastering Free Open Source Software—from cloud and big‑data tools like OpenStack, Hadoop and NoSQL to web technologies such as Drupal, PHP, HTML5 and jQuery, mobile app development, popular programming languages, and security certifications—will become essential for IT job seekers, prompting universities to embed FOSS curricula.

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FOSS Skills and In-Demand IT Technologies for Career Success
Suning Design
Suning Design
May 14, 2014 · Product Management

Master the 9 Essential Skills Every Interaction Designer Needs to Succeed

This article outlines the nine core competencies—listening, observing, thinking, speaking, polishing, doing, testing, writing, and presenting—that define a professional interaction designer, and maps them onto a detailed product‑development workflow with concrete deliverables.

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Master the 9 Essential Skills Every Interaction Designer Needs to Succeed
Suning Design
Suning Design
May 14, 2014 · Product Management

How to Bridge the Gap Between Designers and Product Managers: Proven Communication Strategies

Effective communication between designers and product managers is essential to avoid costly misunderstandings; this article explores common obstacles, the roles of each party, and a four‑step framework—listen, diagnose, analyze, solve—to achieve clear, collaborative outcomes and smoother design processes.

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How to Bridge the Gap Between Designers and Product Managers: Proven Communication Strategies
Suning Design
Suning Design
May 14, 2014 · Product Management

Why Good UX Means Solving Real User Problems, Not Just Pretty Interfaces

The article argues that true user experience design should focus on solving users' core problems and achieving their goals, rather than merely improving visual appeal, and illustrates this principle with examples like Amazon, Evernote, and iPhone, urging companies to embed UX thinking from the earliest product stages.

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Why Good UX Means Solving Real User Problems, Not Just Pretty Interfaces
Suning Design
Suning Design
May 13, 2014 · Mobile Development

6 Proven Tricks to Make Mobile Apps Feel Faster

This article outlines six practical techniques—background execution, pre‑loading content, caching, UI‑first networking, predictive task start, and input minimization—to make mobile apps feel faster and more responsive, illustrated with real‑world examples from Instagram, Weibo, App Store, WeChat, and more.

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6 Proven Tricks to Make Mobile Apps Feel Faster
Suning Design
Suning Design
May 13, 2014 · Product Management

How Pinterest’s Guided Search Redefines Visual Discovery

Pinterest’s guided search, inspired by mind‑mapping techniques, lets users start with a simple keyword and iteratively refine results, combining visual cues and trending data to deliver more personalized, multidimensional discovery without needing detailed user behavior tracking.

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How Pinterest’s Guided Search Redefines Visual Discovery
Baidu Tech Salon
Baidu Tech Salon
May 12, 2014 · Information Security

Pulse Position Modulation for Secure Optical Communication

Scientists at the University of Massachusetts have demonstrated a pulse‑position‑modulation optical link that encodes data in sparse laser pulses amid unrelated photons, making eavesdropping appear as random noise and offering theoretically unbreakable encryption, though it requires a pre‑shared decoding key.

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Pulse Position Modulation for Secure Optical Communication
Baidu Tech Salon
Baidu Tech Salon
May 9, 2014 · Artificial Intelligence

Connecting People and Services Through Visual Recognition: Insights from Baidu's Tech Salon

At Baidu’s Xierqi Night Talk, senior developers learned how the company’s new “Light Tap” visual‑recognition platform and open cloud services aim to link people with everyday services through camera‑based interactions, positioning image recognition as the leading O2O connection method over QR codes, NFC, and voice.

Artificial IntelligenceBaidu technologyCloud Computing
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Connecting People and Services Through Visual Recognition: Insights from Baidu's Tech Salon
Suning Design
Suning Design
May 9, 2014 · Fundamentals

Why 2014 Became the Year of Dynamic Prototyping and Interaction Design

The 2014 design landscape saw static PSDs give way to dynamic, interactive prototypes, with tools like Flinto, Framer.js, Marvel and Xcode Storyboard reshaping how designers create, collaborate, and present products, marking a pivotal shift toward holistic, user‑focused design.

design trendsinteraction designproduct design
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Why 2014 Became the Year of Dynamic Prototyping and Interaction Design