Links published on August 31, 2006
10 things businesses should know before building a website
A-fucking-men.
Surface mouting and web frameworks
If you get passionate about your tools– passionate enough to try new things, get into the fray on the discussion, and always be looking critically at everything that comes down the pike, you’re probably the type of engineer who thinks hard about tradeoffs and the “whys” behind decisions which means you are most likely also to do very well coming up with the right answers to some of the harder (softer) questions that Ned has on his post. In other words, getting people who are passionate about their web frameworks, especially when these frameworks are not part of the mainstream “career advancing” canon, is a great way to pre-select for the types of people who will thrive and do really well in small team environments.
Why Doing User Observations First is Wrong
Field studies, user observations, contextual analyses, and all procedures that aim to determine true human needs are still just as important as ever – but they should all be done outside of the product process. This is the information needed to determine what product to build, which projects to fund. Do not insist on gathering this information after the project has begun. Then it is too late; then you are holding everyone back.