23 Jun 2011
Contiki asked Planet Argon to help introduce their new South America tours. This release was a big moment for Contiki, and they promoted it with a mysterious site countdown on their front page. Our team of designers worked closely with Contiki to deliver fresh and inspiring interaction to match up to the global anticipation for this new continent to tour.
2 Jun 2011
I signed back into Visual Website Optimizer today so that I can experiment with it. Unfortunately, I didn’t notice the warning message.
2 Jun 2011
Paul Graham shares some figures from the past six years of running Y Combinator (316 startups). An interesting read…
1 Jun 2011
While creating a new google group I was directed to the newly formed group page. I was pleasantly greeted by a warning and disclaimer that a feature that I have yet to use will be deprecated in a few months.
I wonder if it would have taken them much more time to add some logic to only display this if a) the group has used this functionality and b) it’s not a brand new group.
Additionally, if I click on the “Download Pages” link… my browser happily downloads a zip file, which contains an empty index.txt file.
…it’s unfortunate that they’re deprecating this useful functionality.
1 Jun 2011
Allison, Brian, and I attended WebVisions in Portland, OR on May 26-27. It was a great event, and I appreciated that time limits for speakers were mostly set at 15-30 minutes. This made for a more energetic conference than most, and speakers needed to get to the point quickly or risk not getting time to make one at all.
I attended as many design related presentations as I could, and this year the talk in web design has shifted from visual design to emotional and interaction design. What makes a user return? What excites them? How can you guide them through your site? Having a pleasing visual design isn’t a big deal anymore, because now that’s just expected.
26 May 2011
Check out this podcast from The Changelog where you can listen to Robby Russell share the story of oh-my-zsh. Learn more about the popular open source project as well as his thoughts on Open Source and Planet Argon.
The Changelog is “a weekly podcast and blog that covers what’s fresh and new in Open Source.”
25 May 2011
While wrapping up an iteration for a client, the team was caught testing out one of the new video chat features.
5 May 2011
Really impressive! Looks best in Chrome or Safari.
22 Apr 2011
We recently received notification that our google apps account was transitioning to be more like a regular google email address. It contained this wonderful line:
“The Help Center also has answers to many common questions (note that you won’t be able to view the full Help Center until you’ve been transitioned).”
30 Mar 2011
In preparation for leaving the country for a few months, I’ve been canceling a few of my subscriptions. As I was about to cancel my Netflix subscription, I was prompted with this screen, which gave me the option to put my account on hold versus cancel it. It’s the little things like this that impress me.
…now if I could only do that with my gym membership and phone plan.
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