skwpspace yan pritzker’s home on the web

skwpspace is Yan Pritzker's home on the web

Blog :: Photography :: About Me

hello, i'm yan

This blog is about startups, blogging, Ruby On Rails, virtualization and cloud computing, photography, customer service, marketing, ux and design, git, and lots more.

Get updates by email
Follow me on twitter

Top Posts

planypus

I'm the founder of Planypus, the place to share your plans!

cohesiveft

Accessible, manageable, virtualized application stacks ready to download or deploy to the cloud!

flickr

at the paradeat the parade@slava626@leorazellman and @smazo at bat17my poor ricohyou're wearing my sweaterthe graduatethe answer, my friend

Archives

Contact

Reach me at yan at pritzker.ws

Posts Tagged design

Rails moves to Lighthouse

In a series of dev infrastructure changes, the Rails team is moving to Lighthouse as its bugtracking system. I wrote about Lighthouse more than a year ago as an application to watch in the bugtracking space, and now they’re coming into the limelight with official support from the Rails team.
I’m really happy to see [...]


How to hire a visual/interaction designer

Design by committee is a bad idea.
Everyone knows this but few people practice it. There’s an inherent desire to get everyone’s input on the project, especially in a small team. What this leads to is a lot of argument and very little progress.

Especially bad is the idea that team members should give feedback directly to [...]


Interface design and usability

This is a great presentation for anyone even remotely connected to building interactive products.


Why didn’t I think of this?

Maybe cuz I’m not an alcoholic. Brilliant product idea, though!


Blueprint CSS

I’ve come out of hiding to write about a really cool project I discovered today: Blueprint CSS is a project designed to give a solid grid and typography based css stylesheet to start things off. Check it out in action here. Encoding the best practices of design into a css stylesheet is a great idea, [...]