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Don’t Make Me Think
20 Oct 2008A few months ago, Hamilton referred me to a design and usability book called Don’t Make Me Think. It’s a very clear and concise book that provides a very practical set of principles for web usability including navigation tips, what to include on your home page, and how to conduct usability tests. The main point [...]
Last Thursday at 8PM, we sent out invites to 150 people who signed up for our beta. Hello to all of our new users!
The site and the team have both come a long way in that time. Although I know there is still a lot to do, it’s pretty cool to look [...]
Find a movie
25 Oct 2007Find a movie: simple, sweet, seemingly easy to do and yet we’ve all been to blockbuster or shown up at the theater and looked at the rows and rows of movies and blankly wondered which one to choose. And so you think about the marketing you’ve seen, how you liked an actor in one movie [...]
Like most other subjects on the Internet, the online movie landscape is incredibly competitive. If you take a look at MSN, Yahoo!, IMDB, Rottentomatoes, Moviefone, etc, it’s immediately obvious that there are many large players in the space who have spent years developing strong movie portals. Many of these sites are also backed by huge [...]
Inaugural Introspections
In: Overview
2 Oct 2007I’ve been asked to blog for HelloMovies, which, depending on your point of view, is either a great idea or the worst idea to ever hit the planet since movie theatres started putting trash cans far away from the bathroom door. Whether you sit with the former or the latter camp can largely be determined [...]
Introduction
In: Overview
26 Sep 2007I’m sitting here watching William Wallace lead his small Scottish army against the English. I’ve seen this fight scene a million times, remembering the time when my high school friends would rewind over and over every arrow in the arse, every sword through the chest, and every head getting smashed. We’d laugh at the English [...]
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