Real-World .NET Applications

Mike Kuniavsky

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About the Author

Mike Kuniavsky is a founding partner of Adaptive Path, a user experience consulting company in San Francisco. He has been developing commercial web sites since 1994, and is the interaction designer of an award-winning search engine, HotBot. His design work and writing have appeared in many publications, including Web- Monkey, ID Magazine, Wired, Inc., The Wall Street Journal, and the LA Times.

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