Wonderful post from Kevin Hale of WuFoo about the power of design to inspire programmers (and teams) to new heights. I couldn’t agree more with Kevin. The interface is the place where programmers and users meet. It’s the core, the heart, of your application.
Reflections of an Interface Designer:
Web application design is surprisingly organic. [...]
Seems like so many developers do a bang up job with writing software, delivering solutions, that someone gets the idea they ought to bump them up the foodchain into management.
Next thing you know, that fantastic developer is sitting in meeting after meeting about… network topology, help desk questions, project management issues, budgets, policies, and so [...]
See the big belly about 1/4 of the way through the video. Excellent for that reason alone, but really a great overview by Jason Seifer on some finer points of Javascript coding and development philosophy in general.
Unobtrusive Javascript:
Some topics covered in the video:
A bit of history and how we got here.
Semantic Markup
Obtrusive Examples <– [...]
In an ongoing series about Agile, Scott Sehlhorst posted this nice tidbit today.
Agile Absolves Developers:
A waterfall development team, in contrast, is avoiding responsibility. It may be that the team does not consciously realize that they are doing it, or even intend to do it. Intelligent people can agree to disagree about the reasons that an [...]
Now here’s a good use for that stationary recumbent exer-cycle you bought last January and never used… Turn it into a racing rig. Rock on, Jeff!
My Racing Simulation Rig:
Instead of spending $100,000 on a sports car, I’ve built a nifty racing simulation rig that delivers many of the same thrills at a [...]
