The engineers call us designers. The UI designers call us developers. The research team calls us when they uncover changes to make in the application. When I started at MailChimp 4½ years ago, my job title was User Experience Designer.
Creativity in Front-End Development
This is a repost of my article in Issue 21 of the MailChimp UX Newsletter. Our team publishes a new issue every couple weeks so if…
Process of Sublimination
This post turned out a bit longer than I intended. To summarize, I’ve tried several text editors out over the last few months and recently fell in geeky love with Sublime Text 2. It’s a truly amazing new text editor that’s available for OSX, Linux & Windows. Now, on with the story.
In the Beginning… I believe it was the Summer of 2005 when I tried out TextMate for the first time. After a few minutes of playing with it’s project drawer, tabs, regex find, snippets and column select features I was very happy. No more bloated applications from a certain software suite or sub-par minimalist editors. TextMate was a simple, innovative, powerful tool that helped me write a lot of code with very few distractions…
View Multiple Link BGs
Have you ever right-clicked on a website graphic in Firefox expecting to find that handy “View Background Image” context menu item only to realize it…
Mobile Directory
Here at Cyberwoven, everybody has a little sheet of paper on their desk that lists all of the office phone extensions. That little sheet of…