At Clever Starfish, we use 88Miles for our time track­ing. Cre­ated by friend and col­league Myles Eftos, 88Miles is a sim­ple web based punch in/punch out sys­tem that lets us keep track of bill­able time. Recently, Myles rolled out some updates. … Con­tinue read­ing →

I’m sur­prised that Jakob Nielsen’s Top Ten Design Mis­takes for Web Logs hasn’t stirred much com­ment in blog cir­cles I fre­quent. Maybe I fre­quent the wrong cir­cles! Most of the mis­takes are pretty obvi­ous and not very con­tentious. Most of … Con­tinue read­ing →

Jef­frey Veen is doing a full day work­shop the day before Web Essen­tials in Syd­ney called “Design­ing the Next Gen­er­a­tion of Web Apps”. It sounds like really good stuff — RIAs and Ajax stuff, user inter­ac­tion and usabil­ity — and Mr … Con­tinue read­ing →

End of finan­cial year around here means lots of boxes arriv­ing from Ama­zon, spend­ing up on those juicy tax-deductible books. One of my pur­chases was 37 Sig­nals’ Defen­sive Design for the web. Thumb­ing through a copy at a col­leagues’ office … Con­tinue read­ing →

A post over at flex-mx about unorig­nal client logos reminded me of a clas­sic arti­cle on AListApart. I finally found it in the way­back machine and then some googling found a “real” archived copy of Being Jakob Nielsen: the story … Con­tinue read­ing →