Housecleaning
With the Next Update blog up and running, I've been having some dilemmas about what to post where. I wanted to make a quick post to make sure everyone's following the right feeds.
With the Next Update blog up and running, I've been having some dilemmas about what to post where. I wanted to make a quick post to make sure everyone's following the right feeds.
Having a clear vision and purpose for your application might seem like just a nice-to-have, but in reality, it's that vision and purpose that determines decisions at every crossroad. Any lack of clarity and strength of purpose will show through in the resulting application.
Comments: 7 (view/add your own)If there's anything I've learned about designing web applications in recent years, it's the fact that things change over the course of a project. Learning to embrace that fact and direct it towards a productive evolutionary process has made a significant impact on my work.
Comments: 12 (view/add your own)One of my favorite topics is the influence of business decisions on interface design. It's an unfortunate truth that the underlying business structure and decisions will invariably affect the interface. It's important to recognize this fact and work to improve both simultaneously.
Comments: 5 (view/add your own)One of the key requirements for creating any kind of issue tracker is making it easy to get data into the system. While the browser is the primary interface, I felt email also had to be a first class citizen for issue submission.
Comments: 4 (view/add your own)Last time, I went into my vision of a simpler bug and issue tracking life-cycle. This time, I want to focus on one of the manifestations of a simpler process—the status bar.
I'm a very big fan of spending equal time between drawing and sketching interfaces and pushing pixels in Photoshop or Omnigraffle. I've checked out quite a few sketchbooks and ideas, but the Dot Grid Book by Behance is my favorite.