Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Here’s an update to our thoughts on the main navigation for our new, simpler DAM UI: The filter column on the left has been removed in favor of Google-style dropdown lists between search box and results. This saves space, and I hope will encourage filter usage because they now appear where the user is actually…

Raph Koster – Self-promotion for game developers: “If you do not take your field seriously enough to study it, and try to know everything about it, and try to add new knowledge and understanding to the field, then you probably shouldn’t be self-promoting. […] You will earn respect for being honest enough to admit mistakes.…

James Rourke – DAM for Beginners: User Interface & experience: “A note to vendors: don’t underestimate the value of how your system looks; you want to wow your client in a demo. A well-functioning system that looks dated or too technical might miss out to a less well-functioning system that looks nicer and easier to…

Stephen Moss – Pete Seeger: five great performances: “The manner in which he calls on the audience to participate is telling, too. He wasn’t the star; the audience was. Music was a vehicle for mass expression. That helps to explain his opposition to Dylan’s new course. Confronted with a rock band, the audience were reduced…

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…