3 November 06
Our Office 2.0 Experiment
Ryan Carson kicks off this week’s productivity-related Friday Five with an interesting look at the needs and wants of a small technology business when it comes to programs. Nice to see the reasons behind the changes from the initial list, which mainly come down to hassle and pricing. Ryan would like to see all his applications online eventually, but will webapps really ever deliver the type of quality desktop programs like Textmate?
Why the ‘online office’ won’t work for now
Talking about webapps, Fred at Webreakstuff explains why web applications don’t work for everyone at the moment. Your average user doesn’t expect drag and drop functionality from a browser so won’t get all these new ‘Web 2.0’ functionalities, so it’s our job as web developers to educate our users. It’s a sobering read which helps you remember your users aren’t all as savvy as you are.
Get off
A post from 37signals reminding people to go offline once in a while to be productive. I admit having some of this problem – it’s far too easy for me to get stuck reading RSS feeds, BBC News, Digg, etc – going offline and being pro-active, rather than reactive, should help counter this.
Fighting the Machine
Great post from Kit detailing the struggle of bad designers, bad budgets, bad clients, bad projects and bad deadlines at web design agencies. “What can be done to fight the machine?” he asks. Well, Kit, try getting out of the agency industry – that’s what I’m doing (but that’s another story…).
Frenetic Freelance
A very personal entry from Jonathan detailing the life of a overworked freelancer and how the freelancing lifestyle can burn you out. It’s posts like this that makes me wish I could write as good and as intimate entries as this.
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