Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

I love this quote from the Re/code interview with Chris Fry, Twitter senior vice president of engineering: “One of the things I always think about is how to deliver three things to everyone that works for me. One is autonomy, one is mastery and one is purpose.” These three (taken from Dan Pink’s “Drive” book)…

We’re still discussing the main navigation of our simple DAM UI. The first draft of the navigation looks okay to us, but the dropdown to the left of the search box might not be noticed by everyone. Our friends and customers at Bauer Media recommended that we add a list of asset types (Articles, Images,…

Chad Fowler – Your most important skill: Empathy: “I’m also a very strong introvert. I recharge when I’m alone or in very small groups of people (no more than 2 including myself is ideal) and I exhaust myself in crowds or in constant discussion. […] The reason crowds of people exhaust me is that I…

Searching, and browsing result pages, is at the core of Digital Asset Management systems. Our current software uses pagination when presenting results, i.e. you start at “page 1” and click through a set of numbered pages. That’s what Google and Bing Web search, eBay, Amazon and many more are doing. “Infinite scrolling” is the shiny…

Getting a Web application’s navigation right is hard. Space and user attention are limited, users have different needs and ways of working with the app, and the content is also different from customer to customer: Some have a wide variety of digital asset types and usage scenarios. Our simpler DAM system UI will allow for…

Our Digital Asset Management system DC-X has a Web based user interface (UI) that has been built primarily for power users: Lots of functionality and information, keyboard shortcuts, drag & drop, right-click context menus, small fonts, slow load/startup (single page Ajax Web app), large screen required. The first impression can be a bit intimidating, but…

One of the more technical decisions when building our simpler DAM system user interface: Should we build it like a Web site, i.e. as a set of interlinked but independent Web pages? Or as a fancy, Ajax-powered “single page Web application” that you load just once, with all further interactions taking place within the same…

Phil Libin, Evernote CEO – On Software Quality and Building a Better Evernote in 2014: “There comes a time […] when it’s important to pause for a bit and look in rather than up. When it’s more important to improve existing features than to add new ones. More important to make our existing users happier…

Jack Vinson – Out of the Crisis – still relevant: “Deming repeats the main mantra over and over: Management owns the system. It is the system that generates the results. If those results are unacceptable, it is management’s responsibility to investigate and improve the system. Repeatedly. This is continuous improvement and is the only way…