Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

UX Movement – Avoid the Pains of Pagination: “Stop making your pages so short and allow users to scroll for more content instead of clicking. […] [Turn] your “next” and “previous” links into larger links or buttons. With a larger click target, users will be able to spot and hit it faster and easier. […]…

Shanley Kane – What Your Culture Really Says: “Culture is not about the furniture in your office. It is not about how much time you have to spend on feel-good projects. It is not about catered food, expensive social outings, internal chat tools, your ability to travel all over the world, or your never-ending self-congratulation.…

Miles Kehoe at Enterprise Search – A paradigm shift in enterprise search: “Solr is the enterprise search market now. […] What’s interesting is the number of commercial products based on Solr and it’s underlying platform, Lucene. Years ago, commercial search software was the ’safe choice‘. Now I think things have changed: open source search is…

Kent Beck – Focusing Talks: Three Questions: “The sad truth is that many talks don’t affect anyone’s life at all. Better to reach one person than zero. Once I am able to reach one person, others in the actual audience sitting there are likely to be able to „get it“ too. Even people who don’t…

Ralph Windsor at Digital Asset Management News – Digital Asset Management Value Chain – Search: “It is not sufficient to offer a search capability which is just simple to use, it needs to be able to cope with an ever widening range of users and also the increasing volume of assets being stored. […] When…

I enjoy modeling data. As students, we were taught the relational data model (as used by SQL databases) and hierarchical database structures. But the real eye-opener was when our professor started modeling a supposedly simple example: an address book. Very soon, we ran into lots of questions with no easy answers: How are persons and…

I just finished reading the book “REWORK” by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. To be honest, I enjoyed it slightly less than I had expected: It’s a great (and beautiful) book, but I have been following Signal vs. Noise and similar blogs for years now, so most ideas weren’t new to me. (And isn’t…

Alexia Tsotsis at TechCrunch – The Enterprise Cool Kids: “The enterprise world evolves from a sales-driven to a product-driven approach. ‚The user is now the buyer, and the center of gravity is no longer in IT, it’s actually in the line of business themselves,‘ says Christian Gheorghe. […] [They] focus on intuitiveness and design, awareness…

Why have children, or – as a company – why have customers? (Assuming you’re lucky enough to have them.) You better treat your customers as grown-ups, but I think there’s some similarities. In both cases, it’s the natural thing to do: We have the former for more love in our lives, and the latter for…

I just discovered this article from 2004, which I can strongly relate to (having worked with headphones for years now)… Jeff Atwood – This is your Anti-Productivity Pod: “’Staying late or arriving early or staying home to work in peace is a damning indictment of the office environment.‘ […] Changing your work environment, however, is…