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Transparency counts

Joel Spolsky writes about the inevitability of some downtime for any online service, as well as the best way to let your customers know about a problem, its resolution and what you’re doing to protect against another occurrence in the future.

Posted at January 25, 2008 - 4:33 pm | no comments | Filed Under: Blogs

CSS Framework Roundup

A great design and web front-end weblog, Smashing Magazine, has put together an excellent article on CSS frameworks. Building a great web front end takes a lot of elements coming together successfully, such as having a good understanding of your user’s needs, building an effective information architecture around that understanding and creating an engaging and […]

Posted at September 21, 2007 - 4:38 pm | no comments | Filed Under: Tools, Blogs, Usability

Organic software

Jason Fried of 37Signals wrote up a thoughtful piece on the similarities between software developmentĀ and plant development. I found it to be a pleasant, relaxing, and grounding read.

Posted at September 8, 2007 - 9:06 pm | no comments | Filed Under: Blogs

Information overload

I ran across a post in Jonah Lehrer’s Frontal Cortex blog today describing an experiment performed at Harvard in the 80s (that there was no link to, so I have no way of verifying if I actually agree with Jonah’s paraphrasing of its results) that explored information access among groups of people, and how […]

Posted at August 11, 2007 - 7:26 pm | no comments | Filed Under: App Design, Blogs

Web app comparison

Ryan Campbell of ParticleTree has posted a very informative comparison of four different web startups, along a few different vectors. I use the word “comparison” somewhat hesistatingly, as the article intentionally takes an apples to oranges range of companies. However, the depth of information, from lines of code to conversion rates to support requests at […]

Posted at August 4, 2007 - 1:17 pm | no comments | Filed Under: Business, Blogs

Guy Kawasaki chats with Moira Gunn

Guy Kawasaki runs a fairly regular piece on his blog where he’ll have ten questions with someone he finds interesting. I like the concept because it has a decidedly human feel, sort of like listening to the radio. This particular time around, he has ten (or 13) questions for Moira Gunn, who hosts the Tech […]

Posted at July 30, 2007 - 1:43 pm | no comments | Filed Under: Blogs