Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

A List Apart – Faceted Navigation: „The distinction between faceted navigation and parametric search is relevant. In parametric search applications, users specify their search parameters up front using a variety of controls such as checkboxes, pull-downs, and sliders to construct what effectively is an advanced Boolean query. Unfortunately, it’s hard for users to set several…

Seth Godin – Who’s responsible for service design?: „Make it easy for complaints (and compliments) about each decision to reach the designer (and her boss). In my experience, most of the problems are caused by ignorance and isolation, not incompetence or a lack of concern.“

Jason Fried at Inc. – Why I Run a Flat Company: „What we learned is that adding a dedicated manager and creating a hierarchy is not the only way to create structure. Instead, we decided to let the team be entirely self-managed. There’s still a team leader, but that role rotates among the team every…

Jon Udell – Pub/sub networking for enterprise awareness: „In theory everyone talks to everyone and everything gets taken care of. In practice, as we know, not so much. Interpersonal messaging alone can’t create a resilient and discoverable web of connections. That’s why interpersonal messaging must be embedded in a pub/sub network where messages flow person-to-person,…

Leo Babauta – Your Emails are Too Long: „If the info you need to share isn’t on the web, put it there. Create a long answer or long background document (then edit it to the essential info) and post it online. […] Link to it in your email.“

Leala Abbott – My So-Called DAM Life: „The archives at NYU was where I found that this interesting blend of a technology background, coupled with some archives know-how made me a unique bird indeed.“

Seth Godin – Are you doing a good job?: „The other way: „What aren’t they asking me to do that I can do, learn from, make an impact, and possibly fail (yet survive)? What’s not on my agenda that I can fight to put there? Who can I frighten, what can I learn, how can…

Dave Winer – Twitter’s new developer roadmap: „Facebook may have a huge installed base, but it’s dead to me. I can’t get there. The platform vendor is too active. Same with Twitter, same with Apple. Give me a void, something I can develop for, where I can follow the idea where ever it leads.“

Kim Schroeder – Fixing Metadata (or Let’s Do it Right the First Time): „The majority of people do not understand the work that goes into providing quality. In our current era of fast and cheap; people have lost the quality aspect almost completely. When they can not successfully execute an accurate search in their database,…

Seth Godin – Cascade of broken promises: „The cascade starts with the product. When your brand makes promises it can’t keep, your overworked staff bears the brunt.“