Category Archives: Design Blog

Pixate - http://www.pixate.com/education/demos/ I have an hypothesis that I drew after watching the Pinterest prototype - bounce effects are good for coming to the end of a list or other times when I'm directly manipulating something that reaches a boundary. Bounce effects for system movements are extraneous and get old fast. You're the system, you…

I understand the need to spend quality time thinking about a design problem and exploring solutions alone. At the same time, it doesn't work for that to be the only attention a design gets. New ideas can be fragile. That's why there are rules about minding your manners while brainstorming. That said, good design should…

I have been working on defining an improved process for getting new designers off and running at Salesforce. This morning one of those magical overnight syntheses happened, and three of the key success factors were swimming around in my brain. I started to see an acronym forming, but it didn't quite capture the most important…

Despite the trend towards real names in Facebook, LinkedIn and other public social media related sites, the communication pathways within organizations are still a different animal. Measuring success means something different in each case, as noted in this article by Susan Etlinger of The Altimeter Group.