We're big believers in evolutionary design rather than revolutionary design. With milestones, this became especially true. I briefly shared our thinking behind designing and building milestones into Sifter, and this is a follow up to show how our thinking and the interface have evolved.

Since I began thinking about adding milestones to Sifter, I've been thinking about some really cool integration throughout the interface. That thinking led to a significant amount of time sketching and designing how they would work. The more I designed,...

We've got a lot of things going on, and while there haven't been any major updates since the visual refresh and OpenID, the next few months should be big.