Garrett Dimon on July 16, 2010
Tables are great for purely numerical data. However, when records are a mix of numeric and text data where each column has varying length, significance, and relationships with the other columns, it doesn't make as much sense. Continued…
Garrett Dimon on July 15, 2010
After some reliability issues with a service provider, we're temporarily disabling email replies until we can be confident that your replies will work without any problems. We wanted to explain what went wrong and what we're doing to improve. Continued…
Garrett Dimon on July 12, 2010
Now that we've been using Sifter in the wild for well over a year in addition to receiving tons of feedback during that time, we've really been able to develop a clearer vision for what Sifter should look like and how it should work. As a result, we've been able to be much more thoughtful about how it all fits together. Continued…
Garrett Dimon on July 12, 2010
The devil is in the details. It's a bit overused and certainly clichéd, but it summarizes a valuable truth when designing. Now that we've sorted through some of our information architecture challenges, I wanted to really look at our new designs and question the value of every pixel to edit the interface down to it's simplest necessary elements. Continued…
Garrett Dimon on July 6, 2010
It's time to return to our regularly scheduled status updates. We're multitasking pretty heavily, but most importantly, we're catching up and beginning to have tangible things to share. Naturally, not all of this is exciting, but we feel it's important to share what we're up to.
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