Successful Projects

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
This is so cook I can barely contain myself. This is some fantastic human interaction – very CSI like or, as Dave Fleet said in his blog post – very Minority Report.

I got an email today from the Agile University in which were listed upcoming classes and the locations of those classes. I was surprised and encouraged to see that a couple of the classes were sold out. It got me to thinking about the current state of the economy and whether businesses send their folks [...]

Mark Boulton wrote a post recently titled “Drupal.org, Design Iterations, and Designing in the open“. I’ve been thinking about this post for a while because at my work – Envysion – we are constantly trying to determine the best way to incorporate feedback from our users in our web application.
We certainly don’t have the [...]

On Sunday Patrick May posted an article on The Mercury News titled, We’re connecting – and wasting time – on Twitter. It’s a very insightful article on Twitter in general, its growth in popularity and how some users are utilizing it to get/share information and to conduct business.
The opening line of the article is, [...]

Josh Catone at Read Write Web wrote an awesome post about what he calls “badge soup” – a term I absolutely love – which is a condition where you’ve got so many social media badges on your site your users can’t find the one they want.
Aza Raskin has developed a bit of JavaScript code [...]

This is a major issue with almost every team running a project using an Agile methodology. Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software has a terrific post on his blog about how to handle those tasks that pop up during every iteration that have no specific stories associated to them.

I find myself once more in a familiar environment though my familiarity with it makes it no less frustrating and uncomfortable. The CEO of my current company has made the statement that the software developers need to work more hours. He has said, “We’re a start-up and the developers should work like we’re a start-up.” [...]

I’ve just spent the last two days cleaning out my NewsGator Inbox. I’ve read, clipped or deleted over 43,000 – yes that’s 5 digits – posts. Obviously it’s been a while since I’ve read my 144 feeds. but now I’m all caught up – at least until morning.
The problem with having such easy access to [...]

Thanks to a post from Erick Schonfeld over at TechCrunch I just tried a sweet little web app called Presdo. Erick is correct this is exactly what a modern web app should be. Simple. Easy to understand and use. Powerful. Fun and something that adds value or makes the life of the user better.
I just [...]

Ben Hunt at Web Design from Scratch just posted a great post on what Web 2.0 design really is.
To paraphrase his post it’s NOT about shiny buttons and mirrored graphics it’s about 2 things really:
1) Simple, uncluttered design with the brand up front, and
2) Simple focus
Ben is right on the money and that’s one of [...]