Although I grew up next door to a bus depot, these days I don’t often need a bus to get me from one place to another. So it’s not without a sense of irony that I find myself – yesterday’s freshly purchased travel 10 in hand – in need of a bus, and the drivers …
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Working for Happiness
Is your work a place where you can be happy?
web developer tools – a series of examples
If you click through this presentation from Web Directions by Ben Galbraith on the state of developer tools, you’ll find a list of browser-based tools that are worth knowing about.
thinking about backups
When a friend on twitter this week lost 3 hours’ work to a USB thumb-drive failure, I was encouraged to write a quick post about backups. If we’re honest, we don’t tend to think about backups until it’s too late. To further labour the earlier analogy about touch-typing as driving a car, if using technology …
hire the best people
More advice on which person to hire for a programming job at an interview.
how restaurant menus work
[ken b] How restaurant menus steer the customer in a particular direction. If you’re not taking advantage of these techniques in your menu, you should be. Conversely, if you are regularly ordering from menus, it’s worth your while understanding how a menu should be put together.
tweeting at conferences
Has tweeting at conferences had its day already? Good discussion in the comments there too. This post goes beyond the talk of *sigh* tweckling (twitter heckling, where the audience teams up against the speaker, saying increasingly harsh things) and looks at whether you are giving the proceedings your full attention if you’re trying to sum …
Designing to delight the information seeker
Designing to delight the information seeker – there’s not much information available on this presentation, but I really liked the title as a goal to aim for in information design.
thoughts on sharethis
[ zesty ] Are you sharing for the sake of it? A few reflections on the “ShareThis” button and its competitors: do people use this button on a regular basis, or is copy-paste of URLs still easier / better?
Twittering Causes Blindness?
A few Social Media Myths addressed, including the median ages of the users of a few popular social networking sites.