mindgraffiti

mindgraffiti - noun; musings on creative work, publicly posted.

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I am a web developer for the API Web Services dept., where I learn a little more about cows and PHP every day.

Archive for November, 2006

The Purpose of Design - an overview

Monday, November 27th, 2006

With the next few posts I am going to show the thinking and decisions that go on behind the scenes in design work and what it is I do. If you find this information useful I hope you’ll pass it along.
I have noticed that many of my clients do not understand that design work has [...]

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How to get good service

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

While working fast food I learned a lot about good service - what it meant to provide good service and how much it is valued. The average customer at a fast food restaurant expects poor service and so they treat the employees with little respect from the very beginning. After a few rounds of rude [...]

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Slow Leadership

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

I found this post originally on lifehack.org:
Adrian Savage proposes a return to civilization and humanity in organizations. Does this sound something like your day at the office? You are driving on a rain-soaked freeway. The other cars are speeding past you. You speed up to stay in the flow, but your knuckles are white as [...]

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Case Study: Sale Books, part 2

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

After re-reading part 1 I realized I left out the sale book development timeline and examples:

•The first generation started with the searchable catalogs.
•The second generation was the Flash Paper pages.
•The third generation began with the plan to create Flash animated pages.

As you can tell by the dates, the first two were still being implemented until [...]

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Case Study: Sale Books, part 1

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

One of the first projects I worked on was building a better way to deliver print content on the web. Angus Productions Inc.’s bread and butter is building sale books for our breeders’ sales. One of the perks to ordering your sale book through API is a complimentary online version, posted to our breeder sale [...]

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