1 month ago
Greg Storey : Designer survey. - Andy's doing some research and could use your help.
Richard Rutter : Designer Survey 1 - Let’s give Andy Rutledge a hand as he gathers data to support a large personal project needing the widest response possible.
# copy
4 month ago
Richard Rutter : Understanding organizational stakeholders - ...for Design Success.
# copy
4 month ago
Richard Rutter : Staff Photos - Links to good examples of staff photos.
# copy
4 month ago
Andy Baio : Search terms replacing URLs in Japanese advertising - I'd love to hear more about Japanese search spam
Richard Rutter : Japan: URL\’s Are Totally Out - Cabel notes that search terms are in, instead.
gleuschk : cabel.name: Japan: URL's Are Totally Out - I noticed the same thing. Also, there are 30-sec English lessons on screens in the subway cars!
# copy
8 month ago
Richard Rutter : Clark’s Law - the more expensive an online system is, the worse its output is.
# copy
8 month ago
jonhicks : Why RFPs are bad for designers AND design buyers
Richard Rutter : RFP, R.I.P. - “The worst kind of business is that which beckons in the form of an RFP.” .
Ethan Marcotte : RFP, R.I.P. - FTW. ∞
Cameron Moll : RFP, R.I.P. - RFP, R.I.P. "The worst kind of business, in my humble opinion, is that which beckons in the form of an RFP.... Talk to most experienced design managers and they’ll feel similarly: RFPs simply don’t work when it comes to purchasing design services."
# copy
9 month ago
Richard Rutter : Making the most of a design engagement - Guidelines for clients.
# copy
11 month ago
Richard Rutter : On scope creep - Defining Project Boundaries (and Keeping Your Client Within Them).
# copy11 month ago
Richard Rutter : The Ultimate Design Brief - The best projects are borne from briefs that are open enough to inspire ideas, while being specific enough to feel workable..
# copy
11 month ago
Khoi Vinh : Zeldman: Don’t Design on Spec - “Our agency receives its share of RFPs, and sometimes these requests stipulate that our proposal include layouts. Even if the project looks promising, we just say no.” Agreed. It’s a terrible practice that harms all designers.
Richard Rutter : Don’t design on spec - Zeldman on the whys and wherefores of not designing for free.
# copy12 month ago
Richard Rutter : Guidelines for a Request For Proposal (RFP) - Advice to clients on how to ask for a proposal.
# copy
12 month ago
Richard Rutter : Cultural creatives - Discovering the lost, upmarket tribe of American consumers.
# copy
13 month ago
Richard Rutter : Copyright Explained - Lots and lots of info on copyright, particularly on the web.
# copy
14 month ago
Richard Rutter : Eight points for better e-mail relationships - Good stuff from Zeldman. Sometimes HTML emails just have to happen.
# copy
14 month ago
Richard Rutter : Managing mail imperfectly - Khoi Vinh on the power of Mail and not emptying one’s inbox.
# copy
15 month ago
Eric Meyer : The Web Design Survey, 2007 - Go! Answer! Please! (If you're in the web design/development field, I mean.)
jimray : ALA's web design survey, 2007 - Let the demographics compile-on begin!
Simon Willison : The Web Design Survey, 2007 - The Web Design Survey, 2007. A List Apart is trying to learn more about our community.
Richard Rutter : A List Apart web design survey - If you’re a designer you should take this survey.
# copy
16 month ago
Richard Rutter : How to do an online CV - No PDF, just a nice web page, although it needs print CSS.
# copy
16 month ago
Richard Rutter : Broadband speed test checker - 8Mb my arse.
# copy
31 month ago
Simon Willison : @media 2006 - Back for another year, in London on the 15-16th of June.
Isofarro : @media 2006 - Two tracks, interesting sessions, excellent list of speakers. (Wot, not Joe Clark??) Lots of Dom Scripting speakers. Looks to be another top-notch event.
Richard Rutter : media 2006 - media is back! Registrations are open..
Paul Hammond : @media 2006 - The @media conference returns to London this June, bigger and better than before
Jon Hicks : @media 2006 - Its on the way! See you in June!
# copy
32 month ago
Richard Rutter : CSS Toolshed - Persuading CMS vendors that CSS is the way to go.
# copy
32 month ago
Cameron Moll : Joyent Acquires TextDrive - Joyent acquires TextDrive. Holy Hanna!
Richard Rutter : Joyent acquires TextDrive - Maybe Textdrive will get some reliability now. Maybe..
# copy
35 month ago
Richard Rutter : Clearleft - Web Design and Accessibility Consultants.
# copy
35 month ago
philgyford : Technovia: What to do when a PC goes wrong - Ian's excellent guide to what to do if something you buy (not just a PC) goes wrong.
plasticbag : Ian Betteridge explains (to folks in the UK) what to do when a PC goes wrong - Bloody good advice. Really interesting. Little bastards won't know what hit 'em...
kayodeok : Technovia: What to do when a PC goes wrong - If you're in the UK, you're covered by some comprehensive consumer law, honed over the past few decades, that gives you some very good rights
Richard Rutter : What to do when your computer goes wrong - Your rights as a UK consumer. [via Interconnected]
# copy
36 month ago
Richard Rutter : Design in-flight takes off again - In an energy-saving web format.
# copy
