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Software Development’s Evolution towards Product Design

From Lost Garden comes Software Development’s Evolution towards Product Design a great explanation of how software development should flow, with an excellent, tongue-in-cheek illustration of the entire process.

With a great flourish, I whip out my gold nibbed pen and draw a little diagram on a napkin that explains concisely how modern software development works. In the grand finale, I circle one of the little scribbles buried deep in the entire convoluted process and proudly proclaim “And that is what I do!”.

Posted in Product Management, Web Development & Tagged: Design, Product Management

SilverSpider DNA

SilverSpider DNA from Web2DNA

Apocalyptic Dreaming DNA from Web2DNA

WEB2DNA converts the underlying HTML of a site into “DNA art”. Pretty damned cool me thinks! Including CSS in the output would be a neat addition.

Posted in Design & UI, General & Tagged: web design

DNA 11

DNA 11 creates high quality prints from your DNA or fingerprint. The geek in me cries out to hang (at least) one of these pieces on our walls.

Posted in Architecture & Furniture & Tagged: art, science

Write That Down

Write That Down is a great blog, documenting Adam’s move from the role of developer of Web-based applications into product management. His posts are very informative and reassure me that my choice to shift towards product management will prove fruitful and challenging.

Posted in Product Management, Web Development & Tagged: business, Product Management

Holy walking coat hanger Batman!

“In this project, we’ll build a little critter out of surprisingly simple, minimal parts. We’ll even make use of one of those coat hangers that seem to breed in the bedroom closet.” Check out the The Coat Hanger Walker for a fun little technical project.

Posted in General, Technology & Tagged: hacks, toys

Automatic pullquotes with JavaScript and CSS

Automatic pullquotes with JavaScript and CSS provides “a way to add pullquotes without having to duplicate text in the markup“.

Posted in CSS, Design & UI, JavaScript & Tagged: CSS, JavaScript, web design, Web Development