April 2009
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Tuitive: User Experience Designers →
Interested in this local User Experience firm. Perhaps we’ll be able to work together in the future. People are king in my world. Not technology. Not politics. Not subjective conjecture. It’s people that matter most when developing software. If it doesn’t work for people, then it doesn’t work.
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After Thirteen Years: Blog, Twitter, Gmail......
Believe it or not, after thirteen years of resisting, I have started to blog, twitter, and gmail. That’s amazing, because I’ve worked as a web consultant for thirteen years! And, I’m young — a prime target for all things social and online. Yet, my life is too real to interface conveniently with the online social scene. I’ve never had the desire, need, or time to...
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Thirteen Years In The Internet Industry
This year I am celebrating 13 years in the Internet Industry. I can hardly believe that I’ve been building online experiences for 13 years! So much has changed since 1996… the “information superhighway” was young and untested. In fact, most businesses that I dealt with back then saw no real value in the Internet. It was a toy. Kind of like blogs were a few years ago, or...
“Progress is the great human ambition—it binds us together, it connects us...”
– Quote from Stone Yamashita Partners in AIGA’s “Why Do You Design?”
(Collin Schneider: In other words, we are always working toward Perfection in our work and in our life. Odd that we would pursue such a lofty goal in such a driven manner throughout history. Perhaps there is more...
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jQuery & jQuery UI: JavaScript RIA Made Simple
I’ve been using the jQuery javascript library almost since its inception. It’s amazing to see how it’s progressed into a mature, robust rich internet application (RIA) tool. In addition to a powerful and elegant toolkit, the jQuery UI project adds beautiful widgets to the collection - each customizable and skinnable. The community behind jQuery is active and verbal — they...
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A Quick List Of What We've Been Doing
For those of you not familiar with Think Say Do, LLC, here’s a quick list of what we’ve been working on in 2008 and early 2009:
Training Application System for Associated Training Services Allows applicants to apply for classes online and apply for financial aid. Ties in tightly with legacy applications in MS SQL Server. Applicants can save their progress and return later for...
You can now follow me on Twitter! Just follow: thinksaydo
~ Collin Schneider, Founder / Systems Designer
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User Experience Week 2008 Videos →
One of my top priorities in any project is to make sure the people involved enjoy the experience. That experience extends not just to the end product, but the entire journey to that product. People are what matter most.
Scroll about half way down the UX Week page to find great video lectures about the importance of User Experience in product design.
~ Collin Schneider, Founder / Systems Designer
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Platform as a Service
Ran across an interesting article about Software as a Service (SaaS), explaining the tiers involved, and how the approach to SaaS (and Platform as a Service - PaaS) is progressing.
SaaS: All PaaS are not created equal.
This article is relevant to us because one of the core pieces of our business as we grow will be SaaS. Although I cannot say much about our offerings yet, I can say that we are...
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Contact Management for Small Businesses →
I’m thinking about signing up for the BatchBlue CRM service to manage sales leads and contacts. Our network of partners and friends here at Think Say Do is growing. Having all that information in the “cloud” will allow us to get to that information at a moment’s notice via our laptops, iPhones, etc. We’re already big Freshbooks fans, using it for all of our invoicing...
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Online Payment System
Online donations to non-profits have been steadily growing as people look for more convenient donation methods that offer more control over giving. According to the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, in 2007, Americans donated $306 billion, three-percent of that was given online. That’s more $9 billion dollars donated online! If you’re working for a non-profit, are you...
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“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
– Mohandas Gandhi