Imagine every blog article gets a unique hashtag. (kind of like how url shorteners work.) Twitter turns into a very simple way to comment on articles across the whole internet tracked via the hashtags.
You could build a cool site where you could see recently commented on articles. See what’s most popular, and see what users are commenting on what. Kind of like TweetMeme. Kind of like Digg.
Already been done? Other ideas?
One of the best things about Jumpchart is how easy it is to reorder navigation. It makes laying out the structure for a website flexible- not to mention it’s client friendly.
We’ve made a few tweaks, and implemented our recent lucid revelation.
You can now:
Expand and collapse sub-sections, which becomes really crucial and productive when dealing with larger projects.
Use the new visual dots to the left of the nav to more easily denote hierarchal level. Also extremely helpful for larger, more complex projects. Keep Reading
“But since that glorious day, you can well imagine how much pain, suffering, blood, sweat and tears not having to worry about IE6 has saved us…”
When was the last time you saw such happiness at the idea of dropping support for something? Society has spoken.
Read the entire article.
I’ll probably never get to eat at El Bulli, the restaurant many times over recognized as best in the world. For one it’s in Spain, for the other it’s closing soon; maybe to open again unrecognizably different. But it’s an amazing story I want to keep following.
“If you were trying to optimize the economic model, you’d change tons of things about it. But the brand is all of those things. These things that seem wasteful are, in fact, the things that are creating the experience. When you make it efficient, you make it like every other restaurant.” -Harvard Magazine
I can’t love this story enough. Determination, coincidence, joy, and application. But best of all, -a willingness to chase personal perfection fearlessly off of any cliff that gets in the way.
“Before you worry about using a programming language, you must have something to say.”
- Joyce M. Farrell
“Many people do not believe that it takes a person 10 seconds to switch contexts; the time is measured between the final command executed in the previous context and the first command issued in the new context. The hiatus is not noticed because the minds of the users are occupied; they are not aware of the passage of time. However, this phenomenon should be used carefully when designing an interface. If the work flow is such that a user makes a particular context switch repeatedly, so that it becomes habitual, the user makes the switch in far less time. – Jef Raskin, The Humane Interface
Context switches add up over the course of a day…
Attorneys, doctors and accountants all are required to have continuing education throughout their careers. Web developers? Nope. In fact, our noble profession doesn’t even require a specific degree. You just say you are one, -and you are.
At Paste we all have degrees related to our assorted tasks. But we have been lacking in a formalized way to continue our education throughout our careers. Sure. Most of us are avid readers of blogs, and keep well up on current events in our industry, -but what about the hard stuff? The hard-won little bits that come from the deep reading of the history and tenets of our profession?
We’re starting a new program today. We’re a really small company so it’s not like “programs” are hard to roll out. But in order to formalize it a bit better for posterity, and because some of you might want to do the same. Here it is.
For all Paste employees:
q. Will anyone do it?
a. I hope so. And I think so.
q. Will we go broke doing it?
a. I don’t think it’s possible to go broke making your employees better.
q. Will it improve our products and our workflow?
a. I don’t see how it couldn’t…
You’ll put yourself ahead of the crowd if you switch your mentality from “I just want to get through this day at work.” to “I’m going to be really good at my job- where do I start?”.
A lot of conversation about modal editing recently brought our studio to a very simple conclusion- one that seemed undeniable the second we arrived at it.
For example, when I’m in “Preview”, and I want to make a simple edit to an image, I click “Annotate”, but I don’t immediately see the result. That’s because it happened away from where I clicked, which is not what I expected. I have to search for it, which is frustrating.
Instead of popping up somewhere near the annotate button, a tool bar drops down from the bottom of the preview screen, which depending on how big your Preview window is, isn’t always readily visible.
This threw me off just enough to make me realize that other people probably have the same frustration/hesitation. It’s something many people take for granted and expect out of the apps they use- usability based on expectations.
It seems too simple to have to put into words, but I’m going to do it anyway. For every action, there should be a nearby reaction.
Don’t be a quitter is ingrained in us from very early on in our lives. Quitters are lazy. Quitters are something to be pitied or even despised.
I quit lots of stuff. There. I said it here in public, and not because I need pity. I’m proud of quitting- and I think more people need to give themselves the permission to guiltlessly quit things.
It used to be that every time I quit something, I felt like I failed a little. Like I left some incomplete portion of my brain behind. I became reluctant to start new things because I worried I wouldn’t finish them. Keep Reading