CubicleNinjas

I'm disappointed.

The single view idea is used by many project management tools and requires a user to do the parsing. Clicks are still required to gain access to the project meat. This means quite a bit of both scrolling and clicking.

The design itself doesn't lend itself well to either behavior. Menus don't scroll with you, click targets look to be fairly small.

I'll reserve judgement until I try it myself, and 37signals need simply release this and it will be accepted with acclaim, but I'm not seeing what benefits these changes bring. That said, it is crazy fast for an early build!

So many critics here of Gruber and his writing style. I just see jealousy.

This change in Apple's approach is very encouraging and goes to show that for all of their success, they have not their moxy.

This is an exceptionally well-handled video. No matter what the end result there will be a contingent that says "Didn't 37 test this?!", and you can show quite a bit of thought went into the process.

Excited to see what Basecamp evolves into, but I doubt it can lure me from Trello. :)

But there's the catch! For an entrepreneur a 9-5 is a short day. And keep in mind that for billions, a 9-5 would be a miracle.

To think that you are above this time investment, or that you can achieve great success without equally great risk, is to believe that you are entitled to more needlessly. This entitlement (not you, just generally) is a mental disease which guarantees failure. Entrepreneur has this same tone. All pomp, without the blood, sweat, and tears to make it mean something.

Ha, ha - thank you. I learned something!

Now to go buy some co.ke (domains) to amuse myself.

Advice to call your business a business? Hrm.

I think the picture painted here is the larger problem. Someone who gets out of school and immediately sees client work as "just another client" is an issue. When someone sees self-employment as an easier option to the daily grind we have an issue. When someone thinks that their untested idea is worth devoting two years to, when everyone in their life has solid questions, it is an issue. And then to blame semantics for why you thought all of the above...terrifying.

When someone introduces themselves as an entrepreneur it is a symptom of an ego. Some people love being an entrepreneur more than they love being a great business.

WordPress has all of the things listed if you use a plugin. You just have to do a search.

If the inability to moderate a comment is your biggest argument against a system, then I look forward to the follow-up post in six months when you truly try to implement any of the other "major CMS'".

Many people here are mentioning that this isn't what WordPress was built for – and this is true. But WP can be used amazingly well for any style of site. The fact is it has a hockey stick curve of usage because it does make a wonderful web backend.

My biggest curiosity is Drupal. After implementing it for major clients, managing it for major clients, and working with many developers who swear by it, I've never seen it work well for user or admin. It just seems so terrifyingly inbred.

After using it for a month our entire studio has switched over to Trello as our main form of data organization. It replaces Basecamp for clients, plots our marketing calendar, and gives an overview of every deliverable's stage of completion.

Every single day people say out loud, "I'm so glad for Trello.". It is a remarkable product that our team is madly in love with.

Details do matter. On this we can all agree. So why is this quote so hard to understand?

Oh, it was said by people you don't agree with, on a polarized topic, and responded to with class. Shades of gray indeed.

Where did it say these pay services never shut down and free services never live on? It was just highlighting a trend.

Prada Phone vs iPhone: They have different buttons. They have different bevel. They use different materials. They have completely different UI. They have completely different feature-sets (expansion/connections/cameras/tech stacks). And no copying was possible because they were announced 30 days apart.

Samsung tablets vs iPad: Same buttons. Same bevel. Same material. Mirrored UI. A clear an blatant copy to confuse consumers.

The fact is Samsung is obviously mirroring the industrial design success of Apple to cause market confusion. To root for a company like this to succeed is disgusting.

TLDR: Focus.

Ugh – I feel like showering after that horrible article. What gets me most is that he implies you have to be enlightened to be a success, while the truly interesting part of successful people is in the management of their humanity.

"With millions of apps on the PC, what are the chances that a user is even going to see your app at this point? Without a ton of marketing muscle or the good graces of the kingmakers at Microsoft just hanging your shingle out on the Internet doesn't get you anywhere."

Funny how that sounds ridiculous now, no? The larger the audience the greater the potential. Successful software has always been equals parts technology and marketing.

What a narrowly defined definition of creativity. :(

This is another great point. Thank you for sharing this.

Your strawman argument here against everyone in the world besides you is almost adorable.

Hover effects aren't awful for usability at all. It is about using this in the appropriate context.

They add two distinct advantages: 1) Ease of accessing additional information. Instead of having a click based event a rollout is 100x easier to accomplish and can reduce clutter on a page. This is accomplished by being clear with labels, such as a "More Info" or "Rollover for details". It is surprising to find out out how many users won't click.

2) Whimsy. The emotional impact these have is wonderful, and to discount it is to ignore the delight of this new medium.

As for the touchscreen issue, these would be handled in a click state. This is how hover menus are handled in iOS for example.

Really? I thought Adobe had some say into how well Flash works. I was under the impression if Adobe could have gotten together some code that actually worked well it could have had possibly had a chance. It appears I should have been blaming Steve Jobs for not fixing another company's crippled technology.

Flash's crashing 3 times for me this morning, across two computers, shows Adobe's commitment to excellence.

This presentation sumaries the capstones of design nicely.

One point I wildly disagree with: That design is not nearly half cultural pulse. To ignore the very real pull of culture, and to do your own take on it, is to build unsellable design. Moreover, customers hear this cultural leitmotif and respond because they get the reference. This is the true balance of great designers. Finding their part in the chorus.

Imagine we're talking about clothing design. It is a large formal event, a wedding or professional conference. Everyone wears the same thing out respect for the idea. If someone were to come in with a red tuxedo it may excite a few, but the last thing you'd call them was a creative visionary. Moreover, this event requires pants - and to not do so is bad news.

These quotes are taken out of context. When displayed later in the piece they paint the full picture – Apple believes the Galaxy Tab 2 is infringing on its creative work in hopes to steal customers.

Boring article that relies on hyperbole for clicks. I feel used.

As the owner of a design firm, and a designer for UI for the past ten years, I think this article misses the point. Grids are a means to an end. That end is functional and visually pleasing usability.

The samples in this article show less functional, less visually pleasing UIs.

Many of the comments here focus on the fact that: 1) There are traditional options that the author didn't take the time to search through and find. 2) Or the author missed an opportunity to go with a free solution.

I feel these comments miss the point of the iPad's success.

The argument this article makes is that the iPad creates a friendlier, clearer, and more usable application ecosystem. The lack of search clutter (from the flurry of links posted) is the actual benefit here, with the ability to create a cool mock-up on the fly an added plus. The community voice is a trust-worthy one. And though it may have cost $8, there was no negative outside of this (ads, malware, bad app).

This is clearly contradictory to what the actual customer wrote yesterday. The customer is the source here we trust. Not Arrington.

She states she has only heard from two founders since posting the blog article, she received no offers of help, and no one has even asked how she was doing. From my point of view, it is quite clear the Airbnb team is lying to you or simply has had their communication wires crossed for far too long.

Airbnb may mean well, but meaning and action are different things.