This video is amazing. I miss my snowboard.
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This video is amazing. I miss my snowboard.
It’s always a good idea to look over the shoulders of those organizations that you really trust and adore as it relates to their business and methodologies. MailChimp is one of those for me and they have recently shared some of the redesign thoughts via their blog which I think is a smashingly-good idea.
I also love how they admit some of their weaknesses with their design too:
The biggest challenge of designing for the old MailChimp site was the lack of an established direction. A designer tasked with creating a new page for a new feature, for instance, had no starting point. There wasn’t an existing grid, spacing, type style…nothing. Meta, Helvetica, Gotham, Lucida Grande, Georgia, and a handful of other typefaces were used freely everywhere. The site was a bit scatter brained and lacked a singular voice.
That’s being authentic and obviously transparent.
It’s pretty neat to see that Microsoft went out of their way to show support and appreciation toward the two hackers who were able to hack the Kinect Gaming system in 11 days after release:
When Microsoft released the product on November 4th, my friends Phil Torrone and Limor Fried at Ada Fruit Industries offered $3,000 to the first person who could hack the Kinect and post the information to GitHub, a public repository for code. Eleven days later when the hack appeared, officials at Microsoft didn’t go nuts. They actually went on NPR to embrace the deed.
I think this is the right stance on talented programmers, despite the “potential” for loss of revenue. I think the author says it best:
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We always sign after reading everything fully, right? Including the fine print?
I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve signed agreements without fully understanding it. I wonder how “bad” it is in the non-profit/church space?
I can’t even believe that someone made a game out of The Great Gatsby! I had never even heard of it!
I do remember having to read that during High School… *shudder*.