Emil Sundberg - Passionate web creator

Developers thoughts about IE9

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:04:04 +0200

23May

Web devs thoughts about IE9

One of Microsofts "evangelists" came by Future of Web Design in London last week and gave a talk about the current state of Internet Explorer.

He started off by showing a really funny clip about what web devs think about IE. He did his best but I still thinks MS has the wrong approach. They leave their old browsers to die instead of updating them as Google does.

Web Designers vs. Web developers

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:30:36 +0100

12Mar

Web Designers vs. Web Developers

Copy machine 3

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:25:29 +0100

19Feb

The internet is a giant copy machine. —@veen #aea

Cohesion in code and design

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 11:38:45 +0100

06Feb

Ryan Singer on "Cohesion" in code and design

This principle of cohesion is one example of how designers and programmers face similar problems in the different software layers. It would be smart for the two to collaborate early in the design process so that decisions about how to cohere the functions of the app can run up and down the stack, from UI to controller to model to data store.

Read the article at feltpresence.com

The sexy startup life

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:42:57 +0100

02Feb

The sexy startup life

Mark Suster writes on TechCrunch on how the real life is as a startup entrepreneur with VC funding.

What happened to 3. Start small and simple, fund it privately, charge your customers and have a life. – Dave Greiner on twitter

10 successful logo redesigns

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:14:30 +0100

06Jan

10 successful logo redesigns

The best 65 websites of 2010

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:55:19 +0100

01Jan

The most beautiful websites of 2010

Is it possible to do a complete redesign of a web app

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:56:01 +0100

28Dec

Is it possible to completely redesign a web app?

I use Highrise every day. It's is the best contact manager app I've ever had. Yesterday 37signals announced that they are going to roll out a new design of the app in the beginning of 2010.

When we launched Highrise in 2007, we piggybacked on the visual design and layout of Basecamp. That design has served us well over the past few years, but we never felt the layout was optimized for Highrise.

This is something I've thought about a lot. If you have a web app with thousands of users, is it possible to make a huge redesign? Won't people (non web geeks) be angry when they can't find a button they push every day.

It will be interesting to see how they'll handle critics. It won't be possible to use the old layout once the new is in place. And no, your company can't pick the date. You are in the hands of Jason Fried.

This is how it will be from now on with Software-as-a-Service instead of traditional software. Is it a bad thing? I don't think so. I don't want to go back to a world with version incompatibility, upgrades etc.

More screenshot and info can be found at 37signals product blog.

Update: The new layout has been rolled out. I'm not actually a huge fan of it yet and a lot of voices are demanding the "old look" in the forum.

Business Culture on HubSpot

Sat, 25 Dec 2010 10:00:00 +0100

25Dec

Business Culture on HubSpot

The “No Vacation Policy” Vacation Policy. Inspired by an employee who worked all weekend then wanted to take a Wednesday off, Brian realized that it doesn’t make sense to microscopically track every day off. They told their staff “We trust you” and empowered them to use their judgment and make sure everyone who needs to know knows.

Read the article at Rypple

Everything you need to know about web gradients

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:52:12 +0100

23Dec

Everything You Wanted To Know About Web Gradients

Minimalist Packaging

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:08:18 +0100

22Dec

Minimalist Packaging

We're throwing a web design competition for Snowfire

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:11:59 +0100

10Dec

We're throwing a web design competition

I'm tired of web platforms such as Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla etc. It should be a fun experience to design and build a website. That's why we built Snowfire.

Now we're ready to let you (awesome web designer) create a web site and integrate it with Snowfire. We're throwing Get Real, Get Visual - a web design competition. Design a web page and win a DSLR camera, iPad or the hottest web design book (Hardboiled Web Design).

Neuro-Menus and Restaurant Psychology

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 01:35:00 +0100

16Nov

Neuro-Menus and Restaurant Psychology

Matt usage quote

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:30:00 +0100

15Nov

Usage is like oxygen for ideas

— Matt Mullenweg on ma.tt

mimmin in Metro

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:30:00 +0100

15Nov

Metro article

You can find an interview with me and Ditte in todays newspaper (Metro, Stockholm)

Sleepy quote by Jason Fried

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 01:30:00 +0100

02Nov

Would you expect someone to get a good night’s sleep if they were interrupted all night? Then how can you expect someone to get a good day’s work if they are interrupted all day?

— Jason Fried on Signal vs Noise

Everyone forgets memory

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 01:20:00 +0200

30Oct

What did your customer remember after using your product?

copy machine - nr 2

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 01:30:00 +0200

29Oct

“The internet is a giant copy machine.” —@veen #aea

New macbook air

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:25:00 +0200

21Oct

The 11” Macbook Air has thicker edges than the 13”

Creativity - Changing Education Paradigms

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:25:00 +0200

16Oct

Changing Education Paradigms

You won’t receive my attention today

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:25:00 +0200

15Oct

You won’t receive my attention today

This is how my inbox looked this morning

“Get free use of Xero”
“Google Apps News: October 2010”
“IMPORTANT: Your Free Assistly Trial expires today”
“Share your email marketing tip and win!”
“Chargify: Our Promise to You”
“Your week with Gowalla — Friends, Highlights, and New Places to Go”

The email subjects might be written by smart people at Google, Shopify, Chargify etc. but I’m busy and to receive them in a stack like this just makes me click the “delete all” button.

Edit: I did actually read the last one from Gowalla since it was a beautifully designed email.

Hans Rosling TGS lecture

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 01:20:00 +0200

07Oct

More bubble facts with Hans Rosling (video)

5 easy steps to a simpler blog design

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:15:00 +0200

26Sep

5 easy steps to a simpler blog design

Title attribute

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 01:10:00 +0200

22Sep

Don’t forget to change your title attribute.

Don’t use “click here”

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:10:00 +0200

21Sep

Usability Crime #9: Telling people to click here

Using the words click here requires the user to read the whole sentence to find out what’s going to happen. Instead, describe what’s going to happen in the actual anchor link text.

Click here to read the full article.