In [The Problem with Preferences][1], Jason Fried writes:
[1]: http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/getting_real_the_problem_with_preferences_interface_design_and_the_customer_experience.php
> At 37signals we’re pretty anti-preference/setting. When we Get Real we try to make informed decisions for the people who use our products so they don’t have to think about preferences or settings or adjustments — they can just use the product and know that the […]
Thanks to [FeedTools 0.1.0][1] by the [Sporkmonger][2], I’ve got the __Feed In__ part of Clutter nearly completed. Combining the ease of managing incoming feeds with a few new ideas I had about how to best _use_ those feeds, I’m really excited about the new capabilities I’ve added to Clutter.
I’m hoping to have something to […]
The past few days I’ve been fabulously productive at working on Clutter… I scrapped the previous versions in favor of strongly focusing on designing a solid core before getting distracted by all sorts of sizzly features.
As a result, with a little help from the Typo source to clean up some date-handling code, I’ve nearly completed […]
In [his response][1] to my post _[Tools and evolution][2]_, Michal writes about local vs. global optimization, how small changes often improve the entire process, and inefficiencies in the larger picture may actually be necessary. It makes a lot of sense and is essentially the same point I was trying to make, though I might not […]
My friend Michal recently wrote about [Software and change][1], exploring the idea that
>[S]oftware that doesn’t result in a behaviour change has very little value.
I agree, with the caveat that _software that __forces__ behavioral change_ also has very little value. As an example, look at [del.icio.us][2], a ’social bookmarking’ application that, despite its current audience […]