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April 14th, 2011

Insight Article, Web Content Management

 “Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone.”

 -  Linus’ Law[1]

Drupal has arrived. The enterprise level open-source content management system is powering an estimated 7.2 million sites as of July 2010.  With well over 3,000 attendees from around the world at last month’s Drupal Conference in Chicago, Drupal is everywhere.   For some, the question remains if Drupal is truly secure enough for enterprise.  The U.S. Government believes Drupal is secure enough to run Whitehouse.gov and after our experiences, we fully concur that Drupal provides state of the art security.  

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Franz Hartl

January 18th, 2011

Information Architecture, Internet Strategy, Technology, User Experience Design, Web Development

As developers, we strive to provide the best user experience on the web, priding ourselves on seamlessly enhancing or degrading the user’s experience depending on the capabilities of the user’s browser. But at what point do we stop catering to the few, so we can deliver a much richer experience to the many?

Many freelancers are openly refusing to develop for IE6, not because they can’t, but because of the fact that it hinders the innovation they would like to see throughout the web, in web applications, and on intranet portals and websites. With so many companies beginning to open up their sites to HTML5 and CSS3, it isn’t enough anymore to be cross-browser compliant. Web Applications and websites need to be highly interactive for users to truly obtain an experience that will stand out in their mind. Developers and organizations need to think about the web in a new way.  No longer is it a place where everyone is entitled to the same experience, but it is a place where those with the right capabilities can have a truly amazing experience. (more…)

Matt Heiner

November 15th, 2010

Social Networking

Facebook announced this afternoon a new “messaging” feature that the press has labeled the “Gmail Killer.”  This may very well be the case from a social perspective because of  the ability to create and send messaging instantly across the FB platform in a variety of formats: email, FB message, chat, etc.  All of the messages will be collected together into a single conversation view, and can be partitioned based on social network groups – which could end up boosting the adoption of groups. This could prove to be a powerful tool.

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John Sutton

October 16th, 2008

User Experience Design

Now Gmail makes you think twice before sending that late night email to an ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend. You just have to answer a few math questions (you pick the difficulty) before the email will send. It automatically kicks in late at night on the weekends, but you can adjust the time parameters to fit your needs. You can read more about it on Gmail’s Blog.  Now that’s thinking about the user’s needs!

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