Ross Hill » sixapart http://rosshill.com.au Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:05:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Leah Culver’s web product guidelines http://rosshill.com.au/leah-culvers-web-product-guidelines/ http://rosshill.com.au/leah-culvers-web-product-guidelines/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:04:50 +0000 Ross Hill http://rosshill.com.au.s79119.gridserver.com/?p=1447
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    • ]]>     Leah Culver worked at Instructables (where she laser-etched logos into a sponsored Macbook Pro) before founding Pownce with Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka as a way of sending messages, links, files and events to friends. After being acquired, Leah now works as a software engineer at Sixapart while maintaining some other interesting web projects on the side.

    Leah started this cool list of web product guidelines that Mike Malone jumped in to collaborate on:

    • simple
    • public over private
    • personal vanity
    • internet is global
    • permalinks
    • one important item per page
    • don’t break the browser
    • don’t wanker in technology
    • a medium is not a grande
    • break convention for your users
    • no useless widgets
    • nobody changes the defaults
    • level up
    • invaluable tool
    • use it yourself
    • make it a game
    • make decisions not options
    • incomplete is often worse than not at all
    • power users aren’t normal users

    You can find the most recent version at GitHub.

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