Posts Tagged ‘quality of work’

Less is Still Just Less.

“Complex” apps are usually a mess. Look at any Adobe app, or Microsoft app. Most of them (not all) are a catastrophic mess. They look like the drawer in your laundry room. The one where disparate items like flashlights, rulers, sewing kits, giveaway pencils, off-sized screws, and IKEA pieces, and half-used batteries come to rest. Not purposefully lain, but because no force but apathy, and gravity could hope to contain them.

Complex apps “do more.” But they do it at the expense of crashes, and a manual in seven languages. Users use them, they hate them. They’re trapped by some function that no other app has, but that they need.

Take Photoshop for example (please take it!). No other app does RGB/CMYK, and compositing as elegantly. It’s amazing with it’s bezier curve handling and it’s simple yet incredibly powerful layer management. Keep Reading

Everybody wins.

“One problem with approaching your work purely in terms of “getting more clients,” is that it means you will always have to get more clients. If you don’t work, you don’t have billable hours, so you don’t get paid. Time off will always feel like money down the drain. If you’re not careful, you’ll find yourself on a treadmill, unable to get off. Spend too long on the treadmill and you’ll risk burning yourself out. Keep Reading

Focused and Deliberate

Paste Interactive 06/25/09
Jumpchart, Paste

This was part of the description on the back of a bottle of wine I was enjoying with a friend a few years back. At the time we got a huge laugh out of this phrase because it seemed quite out of place to describe wine, and a particularly cheap one at that, as something that could be focused and deliberate. It’s taken me a few years to see what they were alluding to with that lofty pronouncement but underlying those two words are concepts that can help take your project to the next level. Keep Reading

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