Soothe nervous clients with smart communication and planning tools. Tap the hidden intelligence of crowds. Feel better soon.
by Derek Powazek ∙ 18 Comments
The Wisdom of Crowds (WOC) theory does not mean that people are smart in groups , they're not. Anyone who's seen an angry mob knows it. But crowds, presented with the right challenge and the right interface, can be wise. When it works, the crowd is wiser, in fact, than any single participant.
by Daniel Ritzenthaler ∙ 23 Comments
Clients, like other humans, often fear what they don't understand. Daniel Ritzenthaler explains how sound goal-setting, documentation, and communication strategies can bridge the gap between a designer's intuition and a client's need for proof.
In any given day I can find myself reading up on a new W3C proposal, fixing an issue with our tax return, coding an add-on for our product, writing a conference presentation, building a server, creating a video tutorial, and doing front end development for one of our sites. Without clients dictating my workload I’m in the enviable position of being able to choose where to focus my efforts. However, I can’t physically do everything.
MapBox's new vector-based map tiles are more stable, more scalable, and customizable to an amazing degree.
The dust has begun to settle after Google’s announcement that Chrome would soon be using their own divergent fork of WebKit as a rendering engine. Now that things have calmed down a bit, I’ve asked Paul Irish to share some of the Chrome team’s plans for the near future.
