skinner696

uh - quicksilver anyone? http://quicksilver.en.softonic.com/mac

Sure - there are obvious patterns but I don't always know what those patterns are and other smart people do, so aggregating them using a market is pretty convenient for me to let others tell me what I should do.

I spoke to these guys a couple months ago and was very impressed. We aren't ready to take funding yet but they gave us some very good advice, asked excellent questions, and were generally nice people. I'm not surprised they are getting some good pub.

We tried basecamp for awhile but then grew out of it. Then we tried Highrise when it came out - found it pretty much useless. Lots of people heeded their call for simplicity and the fight against feature creep and that's a good thing. But when their own products begin to get lapped by competitors and the new stuff they are releasing isn't very useful, then there are problems. That said, I don't blame them necessarily for charging people for all this stuff; at $100/person, they probably actually wouldn't make very much money - they need to rent space, get some food, pay for A/V, etc. Going to a developer conference is one thing, but I'm not sure it would be worth a day to hear how someone is using a glorified web form as a collaboration tool.

this particular article is a decent tip but i'm always very wary of jakob nielsen; he's definitely the biggest whore of the usability space.