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  Showdown- Basecamp vs Manymoon

  31 MAY 2010 / COMMENTS (6)

  Project management software comes and goes. But once you find one you really like you stick with it. And Basecamp, by 37Signals, was our go-to management platform. But times change, and we grew antsy to discover something fresh and more like how we work today. We’ve found such a…

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  Real UX Creating Delight

  24 MAY 2010 / COMMENTS (0)

  Real user experience takes form when a user encounters your site and begins to grin with delight. They say things like, “they really heard me” or “I can’t believe how much time I just saved”. But these quotes don’t come about because of an awesome design or crazy new…

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  Behind the Creative Door

  15 MAY 2010 / COMMENTS (0)

  Every year I try and make it out to the One Show’s Creative UnConference held in NYC in May. It’s a gritty, unpolished forum in which creatives from across the spectrum meet to talk about the industry. Let me quickly sketch out what happens when we all get together-…

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  Smart Design, Smart Development

  10 MAY 2010 / COMMENTS (1)

  I have an opportunity to work with some very smart developers. Their code is elegant and their need to solve complex problems is insatiable. But they are typically missing one thing- a user experience that compliments their ingenuity. For instance, last week I wrote about the Google Apps Marketplace project…

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