Ben Moore, from Curbly, talks about the need for a project to start with the interface design. All his points are dead on.
In my decade of experience, a website isn’t real to clients until they see some pictures, sketches, something, anything. With this in mind, my goal is to provide initial wireframes (black and [...]
The and brillant minds at slantwisedesign just launched Better Together (goesbetter.com). It’s a new toy site where you tell the world how much better pointless and web applications, human blood and ice cream, and chocolate and peanut butter are, um, well, together.
Aside from the possibility of entertaining and pairs, I foresee some interesting pair-battles: [...]
Scott Litman, Dan Mallin Tom Kieffer along with the UofM, St. Thomas, the James J. Hill Library and slew of other people - including Gov. Palwenty - unveiled GetGoMN.org. (Graeme Thickins did the naming).
I’ve poked around with it a little and my first impression: MySpace + LinkedIn + PeopleAggregator, restricted to MN.
I’m in Graeme’s [...]
Back around MinneDemo 1, Aaron Fulkerson presented MindTouch’s enterprise wiki software at wiki.com.
According to their press release:
“MindTouch today announced it has partnered with Entrepreneur John Gotts to launch Wiki.com, the premier online destination for consumers to learn about, create and share wiki sites.”
Yes, the same wiki.com that Gotts bought for $3 million.
I was there [...]
Over at Boxes and Arrows, our own Samantha Bailey reviews Intuitect, iRise, and Axure for documenting interactive systems.
If you happen to be attending Guy Kawasaki’s talk at the UofM’s McNamara Alumni Center this Friday, stop by a little early, say, 11:30. Graeme Thickin is coordinating a blogger meetup. I’ll be there.
If you aren’t planning on listening to Guy map entrepreneurship to pond hockey - stop by anyway, we’ve haven’t seen you in [...]
“So when you approach delivering a Web site, community offering or any information technology product (heck…any product), make sure you balance the “brushstrokes” (front end design) with the “keystrokes” (back end coding). Otherwise, you’re automatically devaluing what you’re delivering.” - Steve Borsch
Curbly - the latest project from Minnesota Ruby on Rails Rockstars, Bruno Bornsztein and Ben Moore - is like a Web 2.0-compliant Digg + MySpace + ReadyMade magazine (Between you and me - this is great because ReadyMade got a little too cool for itself a couple years back).
Curbly has lots of big pictures, [...]
I’m a little late on posting this, sorry.
Big congrats to local Ruby on Rails superstars, Slantwise Design, and the rest of the team behind SaySwap.com.
Local prefab home design/build firm Hive Modular and landscape design/build firm rosenlof/lucas are using Google video to promote their upcoming showcase party: Hive Modular + rosenlof/lucas Showcase Invitation