“Do Not Reply” Email is Lazy
When you think about it, sending automated email to your customers from a “Do Not Reply” email address is a really odd thing to do, yet most online business do it. Why?
When you think about it, sending automated email to your customers from a “Do Not Reply” email address is a really odd thing to do, yet most online business do it. Why?
When designing digital products and services, we need to find places where we can push beyond the Minimum Level of Service (the oven should cook my food, the car should start reliably, the phone should make and receive calls, the waiter should get my order right) in order to make something that our customers will value and love.
“Track 8” by Enderlabs is an intriguing new music player alternative for iOS . Here’s how they pitch it:
You’ve probably already seen this quote from Chris Moseleym (Samsung’s AV Product Manager), discussing the threat of an Apple branded television:
Two weeks back, many of my favorite tech bloggers were covering the story of a switched-off iPhone’s alarm stopping a performance at the New York Philharmonic.
The new Reminders app in iOS 5 leaves a lot of room for improvement, and this is a big one — there’s no indication anywhere in the iOS interface that you can share these lists, but you can!
Talking to your customers is crucial to the success of your product. Call it Customer Development, User Centered Design or Market Research. Make sure you don’t fall into the feature trap!
I love TED talks. Randomly selected for my commute home this evening was How I became 100 artists by Shea Hembrey. What I love about these talks is how often I can apply these ideas and experiences to my own world.
Last night at the monthly Melbourne Ruby meet-up I gave a quick presentation on Nested Layouts and announced a new plugin for Rails called Nestive.
In Readme Driven Development, Tom Preston-Werner advocates writing the README file before any code is written, and indeed, before any tests are written.
Pagination is one of those ubiquitous things on the web. It’s easy to see a pattern like that, apply it to your own “I have too much data to show on one page” problem and take the quick win. Everyone else is doing it, it’s a pattern, you should use it too, right?
This patch just got applied (finally!), which I’m happy about because I won’t have to hack around it in Formtastic any more.
Most of you Git users probably already know about Git aliases. Typically you add a few lines to ~/.gitconfig and you can alias git co to git checkout, etc:
One of the biggest WTF moments when I started using Git for version control was that it refused to add (or even recognize) empty directories in the repository.
Rob Haggart points to an interesting article over on Harvard Business titled When you should keep your ideas to yourself. Take away quote for me is this:
Merlin over at 43 Folders has a great article which beautifully and simply describes some common mistakes bands make on the web. I agree with every single one of them, but there’s more to this story…
While it may not be completely obvious from the GUI, it’s absolutely easy to have mail aliases (multiple email address’ associated with one mailbox) in Mail.app. Updated October 11th.