Jordan Isip is a User Experience Designer and startup junkie in Seattle, WA. This is a blog about Design, Development, Startups, and his attempts at Photography.
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Joe's Nerd Party: Fancy HTML Emails with Rails 3.1
Getting HTML emails to look nice is a pain. Most email clients can’t use stylesheets, so you have to embed all the styles inline in the HTML. You also have to write a separate plain-text version of the email. And popular email clients (Outlook, Windows Live Mail, etc) render html email using some…
“ Quality isn’t something to be sacrificed. Move fast and break things, then move fast and fix it. Ship early, ship often, sacrificing features, never quality. ”
- Kyle Neath, Director of Design at GitHub. Original post: http://warpspire.com/posts/relentless-quality/
This is what showed up on Yahoo Mail after I selected multiple messages and clicked the “Forward” button. YMail, why did you let me click that button in the first place? This is why I left you for GMail.
My design for the new Tippr shirt. Went with American Apparel/Organic cotton shirts with front and back designs using discharged water-based ink. Had a great experience working with Gorilla Printing Shop in Seattle, WA to get them printed.
“ Don’t give your customers what they ask for; give them what they want. ”
(Source: tom.preston-werner.com)
Smart Google Calendar Textbox
Google Calendar continues to impress me. While creating a new event, adding the time w/ time zone in the event description field will save it in the time slot of your time zone (based off of your settings). Eg. “3:55PM EST” results in “12:55PM” on my PST time zone calendar.
Google understands the common confusion people have when scheduling events in different time zones and they provide a quiet solution for this. I imagine a common use case could be a user clicking on “2PM” to start creating an event, and then realizes halfway through entering the description that it’s actually 2PM EST. By being able to set the time via the textbox, this saves the user from having to close the new event modal, go back to the calendar view, click a different time slot, and re-enter description. Therefore, minimizing the amount of interactions that have to take place in order to schedule an event. These small details add up to help reduce user frustration while interacting with the app.
Although, one way Google could take this one step further would be to allow duration to be set by entering the end time as well as the start time. I would love to enter “[event description] 12:55PM EST - 4:55PM EST” after I had already opened the new event modal instead of having to go back to my mouse and drag the duration. Obviously I can edit the event after it’s been created or drag the duration before creating the event, however, that is often not my workflow.
My new front page design (while logged in) for Tippr went live today. Design goals:
- Highlight the locality of the market.
- Make it easier to grasp the price vs value.
- Make layout flexible enough to handle both Tippr deals along with Tippr’s partner deals.
- Larger, more enticing photos.
- Give deals that are ending within 24 hours a different highlighted treatment.
Here’s how it looked BEFORE
The Importance of Microcopy
I spent a couple minutes wondering why someone had closed my Hockey Team’s Facebook group. It turns out that “Closed” actually means that only members of the group can only see posts. Makes me wonder why Facebook choose to use “Closed Group” over “Private Group”?
Joshua Porter has an excellent article on Writing Microcopy.
