Creating is Editing - Dashboard Edition

The first draft of anything is shit. -Ernest Hemingway

When designing a dashboard, you’re never going to get it right the first time. Like writing, or perhaps sculpting is the apt analogy, the real work comes when chiseling away at the morass to create your masterpiece. Here are a few tips I’ve found helpful when editing your dashboard.

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Cross Channel Measurement Issues

The folks at Electric Pulp recently published some conversion numbers touting a successful responsive redesign for a client. While I’m sure it was a resounding success, the numbers they published don’t tell the whole story.

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Lessons from Letterpress

Letterpress gameplay image

Letterpress was all the rage this past week. I admit, I was pretty addicted myself. The game mechanics are solid and the app is very well designed - no surprise seeing as it’s coming from Loren Brichter. But I also found that the strategy needed to win games was pretty instructive and can be applied to a more general business context.

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The Year Movements Go Mainstream

I’ve been meaning to write this post for the better part of a month, and each day since I’ve seen new evidence to help support it. Finally, today, I saw a post from Fred Wilson that convinced me to just get it out there already. Here’s why 2012 is the year that movements go mainstream.

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