Making, 2008.
Tools, hacks, side projects, this site
- Same Bat Blog, New Bat Look
This week, we launched the new, improved GothamSchools. GothamSchools is the latest media / advocacy initiative from The Open Planning Project, and our first foray into the world of education. We’ve got a great team of reporters in Philissa Cramer, Elizabeth Green, and Kelly Vaughan, and the new s...
- Sorry, Chandler
For a while now, I’ve been using Chandler to keep track of my to-dos. Chandler is a semi-historic open source project which I’ve been following ever since I read Dreaming in Code (and in many ways, it’s saga parallels ours at The Open Planning Project with our work on OpenPlans) I’ve been rooting ...
- The power of releasing early and often
“Release early and often” is a phrase often heard in software development, and is more like a mantra for most web development projects. The idea being that it’s better to get something “out there” in a simple or reduced form, rather than wait and wait and wait for your grand plan to come together. ...
- New TOPP Website
Over at The Open Planning Project, we’ve always had a bit of a hard time explaining what we do. That job just got a little bit easier, with the launch of the new-and-improved TOPP website last Friday. Reactions from within the staff have been remarkably similar: something along the lines of “Phew,...
- Slip-n-Slide Photo Gallery
A few months ago, I wrote up a simple javascript photo gallery viewer for a side project, so I thought I’d offer it up to the world. It’s unobtrusive javascript, and it takes a simple list of photos and turns it into a slidey slide show. It’s built on top of the Ext Javascript Framework,… Continue r...
- Sendible: "inspired by" Facebook
I came across a post this morning about a new service called Sendible. The basic idea is this: create messages of various types (email, sms, twitter tweets, facebook messages, etc) in advance, then sit back and relax as they get sent out right on schedule. Interesting idea — apparently there are a f...
- Coming soon… The Livable Streets Network
For the past several months, my coworkers and I over at The Open Planning Project have been hard at work on an important redesign and new product launch. I’m now excited to say that the final launch is, ahem, days away. Streetsblog and StreetFilms have been hugely popular since they launched two ye...
- Wanted: Awesome web designer
Here at The Open Planning Project, we are currently looking to add to our talented design team. If you’re a web designer with visual design talent, rock-solid production skills, and a strong intuition for user experience, we want to hear from you. Download the full job description. Life is good at...
- MX Conference
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the MX Conference in San Francisco. MX stands for Managing Experience, and is targeted at people like me: managers of creative teams attempting to produce great user experiences. The conference is put on by the folks at Adaptive Path, who have a fair amount...
- Welcome to the Undesign
Over the past two years, I’ve redesigned this website about 5 times, but never finished. Talk about frustrating. Eventually, I realized that I was getting nowhere, and that instead of a redesign, what I really needed was an undesign. So that’s what I did. Welcome to wrkng -1.0, my first undesign. La...