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February 2010
- Photo: Stewart Butterfield's resignation letter
- Photo: There's quality control for you. This is
- The App Store: Quality control without the quality
- Scope a variable to a block in your template code
- Descriptive words and phrases found on a $6 bottle of hand soap
- Insight: When debating UI, a picture is better than
- Big Think interview with Jason (filmed with the Interrotron)
- Basecamp turns 6
- Computers shouldn't make people feel like idiots
- Video: Stephen Colbert on Blippy: "This is more
- REWORK Trailer 1: Staying Late
- It's not a promise, it's a guess
- [Podcast] Episode #7: Ryan Singer on the 37signals design process
- Launchpad deep links for Highrise, Backpack, and now Basecamp
- Photo: Say goodbye to convenience!
- Great products are triumphs of taste
January 2010
- Photo: This "too many emails?" downgrade option
- Quote: Men don’t like appliances. We want things t
- Question: What topics would you like to see us address
- Interface magazine takes a look at 37signals' "paradoxical" approach to business
- Quote: Of all the sources of funds for an early
- Launch: 37signals Answers
- Link: "Where one studies has no correlation to entrepreneurial success"
- Photo: Always interesting to see western and eastern
- Product Blog update: New features in Highrise, send real time updates from Wufoo, etc.
- 13 video player UIs in 24 hours
- Video: Remarkable mud-ring hunting technique of
- Quote: All I ask of you is one thing: please don
- Shokunin kishitsu, the craftman’s spirit
- Quote: Perhaps my biggest interface pet peeve is
- Link: Unlearn your MBA - David talks REWORK at Stanford
- Link: Small by Choice, Whether Clients Like It or Not
- Podcast #6: 1) 37signals ID launch 2) A new way of working
- Video: The Most Amazing Cinematic Car Crash Ever
- Quote: The weakness in our value chain with the
- Insight: Micromanaging is something we only accuse other people of.
- Hidden complexity in Highrise recordings
- You can always do less
- Avoiding "if they like x, give them more of x"
- When in doubt, timebox it.
- Photo: Memo sent by "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" director
- Product Blog update: bring your Highrise data to iPhone caller ID screen, new Android app for Basecamp, etc.
- Video: A look at App Zapper's impressive filtering options.
- Weasel words and the absurdity of corporate speak
- Link: More videos added to 37signals.com/speaks
- Photo: Filming the Giant Crystal Cave. Here are
- Jobs at the 37signals Job Board: Teach For America, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, and more
- 2010: The year of the products + a new way of working
- Fixed-scheduled productivity
- "Smart" pasting at The New Yorker site
- Photo: We've added "Newer posts | Older posts" links
- Insight: You don't really know if your templates and
- Quote: Aren't you oversimplifying this? Yes.
- Quote: You know that old saw about a plane flying
- [LAUNCH] The official REWORK book site
- We're looking for a junior system administrator
- Video: I can't think of a better intro to the essential
- [Podcast] Episode #5: A secret to making money online
- "It Might Get Loud" and the importance of knowing what you don't want to be
- Custom Sortfolio ads on The Deck
- Quote: Important: if something is important, say
- Haystack is now Sortfolio
- Photo: Every time I see the Burj Dubai tower over
December 2009
- Photo: Eko: A Traffic Light Augmented by Progress Bars.
- What's the suckage to usage ratio?
- Video: Superhuman tape measure skills.
- Insight: Next time you want to illustrate a flow or
- The top 20 posts of 2009 at Signal vs. Noise (by pageview)
- Combining a camera review with a travelogue
- Video: The story behind the iconic design of Pink
- The language of staffing
- Pratik Naik joins 37signals
- Product Blog update: the 37signals ID rollout
- Examples make the presentation
- That time of the month
- Lessons to learn from Danny Meyer's Shake Shack
- The secrets behind menu design
- Control in its wider sense
- [Podcast] Episode #4: Jason Fried's speech at BIG Omaha 2009
- "What Matters Now" - Seth Godin's new free eBook
- Product Blog update: Win clients with Basecamp, Backpack tips, etc.
- Insight: When things go perfectly, sometimes it's
- Insight: It's never really a redesign until you redesign
- Authentic costumes
- Quote: Work expands so as to fill the time available
- Photo: Camouflage Art by Liu Bolin: "Inspired by
- [On Writing] Saddleback Leather tells its story and promotes through education
- Derek Sivers is publishing some great stuff
- Photo: Meetings: The practical alternative to work. (via Ariel)
- Quote: So maybe it's time for you to join the movement
- Step one is admitting you have a problem
- Little Horn Speakers
- What do you mean by bullet lists with "flair"?
- Quote: I’ll tell you what I do. I take a one-gallon Z
- Quote: Clutter is the official language used by
- Inefficiencies are what make you special
- Quote: Charging for your product helps you find
- Jim Collins and the "stop doing" list
- 37signals podcast hits top 10 at iTunes
- Recent 37signals interviews with UX Magazine, Time Out Chicago, and U. of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Jobs at the 37signals Job Board: Facebook, Garmin, WGBH, etc.
- Creative Haystack listings
- REWORK goes international + illustration preview
- Quote: I have only ever designed products that I
- [Podcast] Episode #3: Making people pay and targeting nonconsumption
November 2009
- [Preview] The latest on 37signals Accounts
- Problem solving going dutch
- Quote: "I have no desire to scale up or get bigger
- Video: A digital still camera + the conference room
- Product Blog update: Add due dates to to-dos in Basecamp, improved navigation in Haystack, etc.
- Paul Rand: "Good ideas rarely come in bunches"
- Cherry picking is the enemy of soul
- I'm a tailor
- Unicorns and projections
- Question: If you had to give it up, which subscription
- Design Explorations: Basecamp To-dos with Due Dates
- [Podcast] Episode #2: Tech company valuations
- Insight: Nothing gets you more focused on solving
- Getting Real (the musical way) with Rodrigo and Gabriela
- Which is more useful? Google's links or the actual home page?
- 37signals on Twitter
- How Chipotle, Pinkberry, and others win big by doing just a few things well
- Quote: If you set your goals ridiculously high and
- Product blog update: New extras for Highrise, Basecamp on Nightline, etc.
- [Designed] Bern Hill Railroad Posters
- The first-to-market myth
- Video: Silicon Prairie News Talks with Jason about Haystack.
- Video: Ken Burn’s documentary on Frank Lloyd Wright s
- Insight: Designs take a leap forward when you kill
- Haystack: Two Week Anniversary + Latest Updates
- New Car Camo
- Video: Jay Shafer of Tumbleweed Tiny House Company
- Bug tracking isn't a network-effect business
- Jobs at the 37signals Job Board: Sydney, SF, Seattle, DC, etc.
- Quote: I have seen so many young entrepreneurs and
- Link: "Jason Fried: The Way I Work"
- [Launch] The debut episode of the 37signals podcast
October 2009
- Question: When's the last time you read your site or
- The early days of Bear Naked
- Insight: A great way to figure out the weak spots
- Speaker's Tip: Don't tell the audience you aren't prepared
- Insight: UI that looked sexy in Photoshop almost always
- Photo: Danish designer Jens Risom, who designed
- Behind the scenes: Haystack
- Making money takes practice like playing the piano takes practice
- Product blog update: New features plus more storage for same price in Basecamp and Highrise
- Leave a little to the reader
- Photo: Article in today's Chicago Tribune on 37signals' CEO Office Hours.
- Where every post is a unique design
- Launch: Haystack - a better way for web designers to find clients and for clients to find web designers
- Quote: *Q: Do you need a $10,000 camera system to
- Who would win in a fight between Erlang and Rails?
- Question: What's so good about "taking it to the next level"?
- Comparing apples and oranges in foreign countries
- Announcing CEO Office Hours
- A walk in the woods can make you a better designer
- Don’t just try to steal a share of the existing market, create a new one
- Rework + Crush It! Promo
- Link: Javascript for paging posts with 'j' and 'k'
- Quote: The main form of communication about buildings
- 37signals in the news discussing free vs. pay
- Photo: Maya Lin's original competition submission
- Insight: "Because it sucks" is not a reason to redesign
- Susie Buffett's only TV interview
- Product Blog update: Color coded categories in Highrise, McSweeney's iPhone app creator credits Getting Real and Basecamp, etc.
- Video: When we were growing up it seemed like my
- Excellent customer service at Graham & Brown
- Quote: The nature of the personal computer is simply
- Chicago 2017
- Photo: As seen on AppleInsider. I wonder what is next...
- Jobs at the 37signals Job Board: Trek, The Boston Globe, MailChimp, etc.
- Video: Jamis celebrates the completion of a project.
September 2009
- Photo: Earlier today in our Campfire chat room we
- Video: I gave a talk on "UI Fundamentals for Programmers
- Quote: So often people are working hard at the wrong
- [Preview] 37signals Accounts + The Launchpad
- Photo: Campari Soda bottle.
- A good experience with ADT
- Insight: Don't do this: <% if File.exists?(model
- Do Americans have bad taste?
- Insight: Never tell anyone you've "been busy." Everyone is busy.
- PRESS RELEASE: 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT
- Quote: Something that’s very important for us t
- Insight: The best way to graduate from beginner is
- Landmine advertising at The Huffington Post
- Photo: Australia's worst dust storm in 70 years
- Insight: If you're describing something, and you find
- Link: Stacey: No login screens, no ‘cms’
- "I quit my job" applause
- Signs on signs
- Mojito island is a mirage
- Insight: Good ideas turn into good designs fairly
- Warren Buffet on scheduling meetings
- The next generation bends over
- A shorthand for designing UI flows
- Photo: Apple sweats the details, even in the most
- Beware managers with free time
- Product Blog update: Faster cases/deals in Highrise, create timelines with Basecamp, etc.
- Video: The Reactable. Swell, futuristic synthesizer
- Promiscuous title #1: Vice president
- Question: Has the time come to kill the "Remember me
- Niche Businesses: Graffiti Supplies
- Why do only "executives" deserve summaries?
- Video: As long as we're talking about unconventional
- Michael Jordan's induction speech
- Photo: Arcade Hockey for the iPhone (App Store link
- Quote: Not everything that can be counted counts
- Photo: A new site/product/thing we're working on
- Link: See Ryan talk about UI at WindyCityRails in Chicago
- Michael Jordan's Top 23 Moments
- How Quentin Tarantino realized Plan A (acting) wasn't his best path
- Photo: What Hubble sees.
- On communicating better
- Photo: Scanwiches is as simple as a recipe site can get. [via TC]
- Quote: Successes are more informative than failures
- Insight: Desktop littered with tiny icons? Bump your
- Win fans by dropping the potato pancake
- Video: A map of where 37signals employees live/work (larger version).
- Quote: We have been privileged to have had the opportunity
- Quote: Nate Kaiser recently said on Twitter, “If I
- Photo: Clever: BucketVac turns a 5 gallon bucket
- A-Teams = 12 people
- Why it's a good idea to sell to lots of little guys instead of one big guy
- The bar for success in our industry is too low
- Two different ways to design a bookstore
- Insight: Want something to blow up? Tell the world
- Photo: From the archives... It's always fun to stumble
August 2009
- Insight: There's a lot of talk about change being
- Product Blog update: New "All Pages" screen in Backpack, Campfire deals with spotty connections, etc.
- Photo: American Apparel is now selling a Bag-O-Scraps
- Insight: How many of these supposedly important blog
- Nuts & Bolts: Configuration management with Chef
- The different sketch styles of the designers at 37signals
- Copyediting: Man vs. Machine
- Quote: Sympathize. “I can understand why you are u
- Quote: Think about the different areas of your life
- Photo: Copyeditor's marks. Going over the edited
- Video: Some incredible bike riding. [thx Carlos]
- Jobs at the 37signals Job Board: Yelp, Disney, E*Trade, etc.
- Link: Twitter Postings: Iterative Design
- The best lawyer experience
- [On Writing] Birdwell swimwear wants "no more of this wishy washy stuff and nonsense"
- Rework: Unveiling the cover
- Insight: Who said it can't be a circle?
- Design Decisions: New signup form
- Insight: "Interface vs. implementation" is a split
- UI start to finish: Champagne
- (Almost) Introducing 37signals Accounts
- Quote: Jay does not regard “amateur” as a pejorative. Hi
- [Fly on the Wall] Window control with MercuryMover
- Link: Tennis-warehouse.com makes demoing easy
- Product Blog update: Sherpa brings Basecamp to iPhone, Pulse/Highrise, Backpack Bookmarklet, etc.
- Video: "It's perhaps easier now, than ever before
- Craig Davey joins 37signals
- Quote: I went to hear the author Michael Connelly
- Photo: Happy accident: I love how the file size
- When megapixels matter
- Little green lies
- Design Explorations: Highrise Edit Contacts
- Insight: Need to get some work done? Announce your
- Photo: A thoughtfully worded message pops up after
- Open Source Icons
- New at 37signals.com: Featured Presentations, Keynotes, and Interviews
- Quote: By far the dominant reason for not releasing
- The problem with averages
- Link: MSNBC: "We learn more from success than failure"
- Photo: Browsers visiting 37signals sites (all our
- Photo: We've added new categories to The 37signals
- Joshua Peek officially joins 37signals
- Interesting UI choices by Pagehand
- Link: Ryanair is one opinionated company
- [Fly on the Wall] Generic brands get classy with design
- Teach for America founder on the pointlessness of planning, the importance of saying no, etc.
July 2009
- Photo: A little something we're working on. Can
- Recent jobs posted to the 37signals Job Board: Temple University, Lime Wire, Yelp, etc.
- Work in Photoshop, don't save in Photoshop
- Product Blog update: FormSpring, Logbook, workstreaming with the Backpack Journal, etc.
- Stop following directions and start designing
- FormSpring integrates with Highrise (and they sent us a cake to celebrate)
- Basecamp, now with more vroom.
- Link: [Audio] FLOSS Weekly 79: David Heinemeier Hansson
- New features in Basecamp and Highrise (Private messages, SSL for all Basecamp plans, Highrise Quickcard, etc.)
- Photo: That's some great copy on this screen from
- The eBay creation myth and other corporate origin stories
- Seeking a less pretentious "boutique"
- The backstory to Walter Iooss' photo of "The Catch" and other great Sports Illustrated photos
- Strangers at a cocktail party
- Link: net@night 108: Jason Fried of 37signals
- How playtime is responsible for Post-It Notes, Lasik, and more
- Quote: If I have two candidates in front of me,
- Let's just call plans what they are: guesses
- Quote: It seems so obvious: if you want to develop
- Writer's block is sometimes just typer's block
- Quote: There is actually a useful tool inside Wolfram
- Video: Jason's talk at Big Omaha 2009
- The end of the edge case
- At-home good should trump in-store sizzle
- Stop the politicians tagging our infrastructure
- Quote: C.E.O.’s with law or M.B.A. degrees do n
- Interview with Ryan Singer at ThinkVitamin
- Quote: 'Rock Star' is perhaps the most abused phrase
- Product Blog update: New Basecamp features, Highrise/Harvest integration, etc.
- Oldie But Goodie: Sketching with a Sharpie
June 2009
- Design Decisions: Results from the Basecamp account screen redesign
- Working at 37signals
- Photo: Elbo.ws puts a special message at the top
- The risks Michael Jackson took on Thriller
- Design Decisions: Redesigning Basecamp's global milestone view
- New Jobs on our Job Board: iPhone Developer Jobs, Apple, Trek, Wall Street On Demand, etc.
- The natural evolution from side project to full-time business
- Nickel and diming
- How we use Backpack to keep track of our email newsletters
- Christopher Alexander on the perfection of imperfection
- Quote: In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable
- How to mock alternate states of a new UI template using helpers
- Photo: Neat infographic: A beat-by-beat breakdown
- Design Explorations: Basecamp Account Screen
- Reminder: Know what you're measuring
- Photo: LessEverything's UI Test Results #3: Flipping
- Quote: I don't care how good you are at programming
- Mark's upcoming technical presentations
- Lessons learned from Spike Lee's profile of Kobe Bryant
- Your branding shouldn't give customers a headache
- The planning fallacy
- "Good enough" instead of "absolutely perfect"
- Why it's wise to launch softly
- Quote: Big, as a business model (let alone as an
- Product blog update: API developer list, iPhone app for Backpack, etc.
- Rediscovering Jakob Nielsen
- Quote: People want to know how I started Teach For
- A reminder of how simple business can be when you don't make it complicated
- Quote: The moment a man begins to talk about technique
- Forbes profile of David and 37signals
- Last week's 37signals retreat in Kohler, Wisconsin
- Question: What does a Community Manager do? I see a
- Hindsight on default styles in Basecamp
- Recent jobs posted to the 37signals Job Board in London, Paris, New York, Toronto, SF, etc.
- Quote: How you do anything is how you do everything
- ThinkGeek: "We'd never get away with taking advantage of you guys, so why would we try?"
- Forget the resume, kill on the cover letter
- Doubling down in business
May 2009
- New in Highrise: Twitter integration
- We're hiring a junior support programmer
- Why underdogs should take more chances
- How we use iChat and SubEthaEdit to collaborate on a book despite being in different cities
- The Deck readership survey
- Quote: If you review your first site version and
- Interview with CEO Peldi Guilizzoni about the growth of Balsamiq
- CarsForaGrand.com: Simple idea that's generating big bucks
- A baffling checkbox at Orbitz
- Photo: Ian Hall writes: "Last night I was passively
- Coding style: Helpers that return params
- Quote: There is something infinitely touching when
- Nuts & Bolts: Campfire loves Erlang.
- Photo: Dashboard from the 1978 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40.
- The newest Signal: Jason Zimdars, designer
- Photo: Spotted on Google Maps street view this past
- Product Blog update: Intelligant syncs Basecamp with Microsoft Project, Twitter uses Campfire, etc.
- Two great lessons from Jeffrey at BIGOmaha
- Quote: Approval, though, is not the goal of investing
- Sam Maloof, master furniture craftsman
- Behind the scenes: Getting Real with the Backpack homepage
- Photo: David, Jason, Sam, Ryan and Michael (L. to
- Tapbots shows how much you can do with just a little upfront
- Photo: Natasha Lloyd writes, "I thought it was cool
- Quote: Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.
- Design Decisions: The New Backpack Marketing Site
- The only plan is to learn as you go
- Quote: When someone demands to know how we are going
- Photo: Submit a request to Blogger's Help Forum
- Musician/inventors who scratched their own itch
- Photo: Neat visual nav at Stylous.com. Check it
April 2009
- Product blog update: Campfire extras, PCI compliance, etc.
- Pulitzer winner's key lesson learned: Demos, not memos
- Quote: I actually think that there was always an
- There's nothing new about all-new
- Designed: Trademarks, Worldwide
- How much is watching TV costing you?
- Finding creativity
- How Sequence brings "Batman: Black & White" to life using Basecamp
- Link: Ready, aim...fail: Why setting goals can backfire
- Quote: Giving the trick away gave nothing away,
- The lifestyle business bullshit
- The word entrepreneur and its baggage
- Quote: As a political pollster, I always observed
- A graphic novel inspired by noir film directors
- Product Blog update: Improvements to time tracking and HTML export in Basecamp, Backpack and a cleaner inbox, etc.
- The method still works
- Question: Seen any great ads lately? Video, still,
- Album art revival at We Are Hunted
- J. Peterman: Selling stories, not just products
- The difference between truly standing for something and a mission statement
- Santa Monica BMW's Checkmate
- Link: Go Ahead, Steal Me
- Link: Time Magazine: "Get Rich Slow"
- Patterns is now a book
- Link: Study Finds Business Plans a Waste of Time
- iPhone cake: Happy birthday RS and JF!
- Product Blog update: New features in Basecamp and Highrise, case studies, etc.
- Turning 35
- Link: Value Judgements in Interface Design with Ryan Singer of 37signals @meshu09
- Coming soon: 37signals University
- Why are business book covers so ugly?
- Link: Hot trend: Part-time entrepreneurs
- Follow-up on "Get Satisfaction, Or Else..."
- Jacek Utko: Can design save the newspaper?
- Is there a better way for you to price your product?
March 2009
- Get Satisfaction, Or Else...
- The evolution of the 37signals home page
- The Real World: A video of David's talk at FOWA Dublin
- Designers: Make it Memorable
- Quote: I learned back in the days when I was consulting
- Music collaboration via git?
- The Mystery of the Snowglobe
- 37signals Live in just a little bit!
- Mega drop-down navigation at Basecamp and Rails Guides site
- Writing Decisions: Related to Milestone
- Product Blog update: helping an internship hunt, Deal and Case Email Dropboxes in Highrise, Backpack on iPhone, etc.
- Highrise turns two
- Failure is overrated, a redux
- Quote: I couldn’t understand why my productivity w
- Video: Video showcasing the Audi A4 production process.
- Quote: People who sign up for free services tend
- How do you get others onboard with using 37signals tools?
- Ask 37signals: How does 37signals use its own products on a day-to-day basis?
- On Writing: Before you apply to this lab...
- Photo: Where do you turn when you need "Happy Birthday
- Quote: Speaking to a recruiter friend of mine recently
- Photo: Preview of the new 37signals.com launching
- The most powerful word is no
- Harney & Sons Guide to Tea
- Overnight success takes years
- Readability fights back against "today's cram-all-the-ads-on-one-page Web"
- Design in Progress: Product bubbles
- Sell Your By-products
- There's always time to launch your dream
- Photo: I can't believe American Airlines' booking
- Introducing the ProjectSearch Rails plugin:
- How did the web lose faith in charging for stuff?
- No more lolcats in tech presentation, plz!
- All-in-one I-have-no-idea
- Letting things go
- Writing Decisions: Anticipating readers’ objections
- How to attain inbox zero with Highrise Tasks
- Ask 37signals: How many hours should I work per week?
- A couple of new things in Basecamp: Work with milestones on the Dashboard + Writeboard email notifications
- Quote: I'm very opinionated. When I was at art college
- Southwest and how limiting options can save you money
- Recent jobs posted to the 37signals Job Board: UT, Clinton Global Initiative, Harmonix, ShareThis, etc.
- Quote: Until one is committed, there is hesitancy
February 2009
- Who needs a board of advisors?
- Fit to be used
- Welcome the newest Signal: Michael Berger
- The Polaroid approach
- Quote: People are subject to trifling likes and
- Product Blog update: AlertThingy and Basecamp, using Basecamp for your design process, GTD with Backpack, etc.
- Quote: Left to my own devices, with no family, I
- Photo: Less as a sales tool: five by Haagen-Dazs
- What everybody else is doing is irrelevant
- Multitasking is the fastest way to mediocrity
- Introducing Sprockets: JavaScript dependency management and concatenation
- Photo: The copy at Urban Spectacles > Philosophy
- Photo: Neat how the iTunes music store lets you
- Photo: "Where is your money going?" from the new
- Design In Progress: Choosing the Right Product
- The moment of truth is a real audience
- Link: Don't Blame H-1B Workers for Woes
- Quote: He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them.
- Moving towards signs of life
- Product Blog update: new invoicing extras for Basecamp, Outpost update, Propane for Campfire, etc.
- Photo: MenuPages redesigned. Mostly nice, but the
- Link: Jason makes "The 2009 Creativity 50"
- Product Decisions: Why did we spend time on a color picker for Backpack?
- Going rogue inside a big company (a la Best Buy)
- Link: Edward R. Tufte’s Presentation Tips
- Recent jobs posted to the 37signals Job Board: Facebook, Netflix, Happy Cog, Joost, Yelp
- Lesson from The Flip: Do less and you get to print less
- Link: Get Real randomly with the Random Reality Bookmarklet
- New in Backpack: Customize your color scheme
- Photo: Two great tweets today from the ever-inspiring Kathy Sierra.
- Why you shouldn't copy us or anyone else
- Axl vs. Frank: More time doesn't mean a better product
- Video: Really nice screencast from Krop. Good flow
- JavaScript makes relative times compatible with caching
- Happy Birthday - Basecamp Turns Five!
- Models vs. Modules
- How to film customer case study videos
- Learning from failure is overrated
- Photo: Weather Underground's iPhone-optimized version
- Product blog update: New Outpost, Backpack and productivity, Campfire to Jabber interface, etc.
- Quote: So, I'm going to give up and use tables.
- Remember the strop
- Quote: It was very challenging to try and get that
January 2009
- Verify your work with checklists
- Patterns: Great self promotion
- How we reduced chargebacks by 30% (as a percentage of sales)
- Photo: What? A win for the _IRS website?_ In this
- New in Backpack: Bookmark tags in your sidebar
- Quote: That's how I'm stretching myself, by writing
- Different approaches to positioning a comment icon in Basecamp and Backpack
- Photo: Our office bathroom has a new theme - Movie
- Writing Decisions: Saving space without losing meaning
- Full-Day Workshop with Ryan in London
- Quote: It is certain that every organization has
- New in Backpack: Post comments on list items and notes
- Hulu CEO: "We screwed up royally"
- Upcoming 37signals speaking engagements
- Question: You identify some UI you want to improve
- Link: Achatz and Keller: A Tale of Two Chefs
- Theatrical Aspect Ratio
- Distinguishing decorative from meaningful elements in UI design
- The bullshit of outage language
- 37signals Live: Thursday, January 15 at 11:00am central time
- Quote: Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing
- Writing Decisions: Headline tests on the Highrise signup page
- Photo: (1) Windows 7 Explorer vs. (2) Dance Dance Revolution.
- How Cook's Illustrated thrives while others are dying
- Photo: The office on a quiet Sunday morning
- Quote: People think entrepreneurs are risk-loving
- New in Backpack: Reorderable sidebar links
- Photo: My first thought after looking at this DSLR
- Quote: The financial crisis in America is really
- How to do Basecamp-style subdomains in Rails
- Leap before you look?
- Photo: Peculiar error from QuickBooks Pro. You can
- Mr. Moore gets to punt on sharding
- Design Decisions: Saying more in less space on the new Highrise site
- iPhoto '09 and Domain Language
- Making Highrise faster with memcached
- Question: Where should we take 37signals Live? We'd
- Quote: Beauty is more important in computing than
- A better way to learn grammar
- Quote: My work revolves around the routinely spectacular
- Trademark hysteria
December 2008
- Getting Real and Design
- Malcolm Gladwell on meaningful work and curiosity
- Photo: Now that's advertising. Leather Creations Furniture.
- Design Decisions: The new Highrise signup chart
- The untold millions
- Photo: Peepod, a dingbat font from T.26, depicts
- Signal vs. Noise reader survey results
- 37signals 2008 Year in Review
- Question: If you're stumped with a problem or question
- Photo: "Decisions that feel too small to matter
- Recent jobs posted to the Job Board: The Motley Fool, Meetup, Kink, Tuitive, Firstborn, etc.
- Every Mac I've owned has failed
- Sirius + StarLightXM + Airport Express + Airfoil = Streaming satellite radio anywhere in your house
- Product Blog update: send email newsletters to Highrise contacts, inspired by Getting Real, etc.
- Photo: Huzzah! The crawl, the unending stream of
- Showing the difference between a 19" and 22" suitcase
- Quote: A well-designed text will seem weightless after a time.
- New in Backpack: Read-only sharing, updated "All Pages" design, and more
- Photo: Spotted at The Smithsonian Air and Space
- UI Design: A peek at Extra Extra, an internal 37signals app
- Photo: So far the answers to question 12 in the
- Quote: I have a friend whose house was designed
- Take the Signal vs. Noise Reader Survey
- Video: The making of an Eames molded chair, ca.
- The benefits of a monthly recurring revenue model in tough economic times
- Photo: Via The Year in Photography: Maasai warriors
- Quote: [The Congressional oversight panel's first
- Photo: Bible Illuminated (the #1 selling bible at
- Making a record is just one way a band can make money
- Quote: The goal with products is to give people
- Product blog update: Record producer uses Highrise, Basecamp case studies, Wall Street Journal video, etc.
- Beautifully designed: The Olivetti Lettera 22
- When was the last time you looked at your business plan?
- Quote: When I compare the various iPhone chess apps
- Video: Amazing animation. "In 1969, a 14-year-old
- Question: Has anyone used Rosetta Stone to successfully
- New in Backpack: Page notifications and up-front share settings
- Why you should mix records on crap speakers
- A whale of a tale
- Product blog update: Basecamp as a content management system, Periscope, integrating Highrise with HelpSpot, etc.
- Photo: Wordle generates “word clouds” from text tha
- Big Three: Clean up your dealerships
- Next 37signals Live is tomorrow (Thursday, December 4) at 11am (CST)
- Quote: Rather than survey a bunch of users on every
- Link: Advice to carmaker CEOs driving hybrids to DC (instead of private jets)
- Announcing our new book deal
- Using the EC2 environment for fewer moving parts
- Put a dent in the universe
- Pick discontentment with the things you can change
- Photo: Multicolr Search Lab: "We extracted the colours
- Video: I want to be Andy Rooney when I grow up.
November 2008
- Ta-da List on Rails 2.2, Passenger And EC2
- Good Experience: It's the little things
- "Mixed content warning", how I loathe thee!
- Hire managers of one
- Photo: The Art of the Title Sequence: a great site
- "37signals is the (Lotus, iPhone, Disney) of software"
- Backpack: Some things you may not have known
- When hi-tech is too-much-tech
- Jason Polan explains with a sharpie
- Photo: Make a reservation at OpenTable and the confirmation
- Quote: The proposed bailout of GM, Ford, and Chrysler
- Product blog update: Email replies to Backpack Newsroom Messages, Timepost project timer for Basecamp, etc.
- Stop pretending
- Photo: Pizza pie charts from The Economist's "Get
- Quote: A complex system that works is invariably
- Photo: Who doesn't want to play with this? Totally
- Etymology: One
- Defensive design: Magnetic zones on the unibody MacBook
- Quote: So maybe a recession is a good time to start
- Video: Here's a demo of some thoughtful UI on Ffffound.com.
- Question: CB2 and Land of Nod, both sister brands of
- Why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web
- Question: Now that Jerry Yang is out as Yahoo CEO,
- Photo: "More effective, useless." The Devil is in the details.
- Ask 37signals: Does "Getting Real" work in this economy?
- Video: Starting in 2006 Peter Schiff goes prescient
- Photo: "Origamized" Basecamp logo
- Product blog update: Basecamp monitor on production floor, Highrise Deals API, Tasks vs. To-dos, etc.
- Why an 'iPod killer' will never kill the iPod
- Highrise: Better import and export
- Jules: A robot that mimics faces
- Photo: Rollover menus can be finnicky but the ones
- My talk at the Business Innovation Factory 4 Conference
- Carbon Copies: I write dead people
- Then just say it like that
- Photo: Beards in Battle, By Phineas X. Jones.
- The importance of setting expectations
- Question: Is RSS dead to you too? I haven't used an
- Photo: Blue lobster caught off coast of Scotland
- Photo: All I want in life sometimes is for AT&T
- Hanson: Still at it and more successful than ever
- Quote: This crisis is as much about values, trust
- Unconferences?
- Dion shows how to give good interview
- Link: The missing iCal calendar
- Link: Making Sure the Shoe Fits at Zappos.com
- Product blog update: Versatility Skateboards case study, Open Bar video, etc.
- Question: In the past, historic front-page moments
- Photo: I like to dream that somewhere out there
- Quote: "North Dakota is a rural state and its communities
- Fun with Highrise stats: Countries referenced more than 1000 times in over 8 million Highrise contacts
- Describe 37signals in 20 seconds or less
- Quote: Figure out the absolute least you need to
- Link: 73-year-old to play college basketball
- A radical idea: Charge people for your product
- Photo: Amazon launched “Frustration-Free Packaging,”
October 2008
- CachedExternals: managing application dependencies
- Photo: Stunning. via Flickr.
- Link: Bokeh
- New in Highrise: Much faster sidebar searching
- Quote: One thing to remember in economics is that
- Learning from Harley-Davidson's comeback
- Photo: Flash hiccups aside, the latest incarnation
- Photo: The first time I saw my baby nephew crawling
- Photo: 1. Who the fuck designs this shit? And 2
- Photo: "Pixlr is a free online image editor, jump
- Product blog update: Backpack case study, calendar tip, Propane for Campfire, etc.
- Quote: *Brown:* So are you going to run for governor
- Video: Touchscreen fun on SNL. (Hulu = US only)
- Photo: Interior of a 1958 Subaru 360.
- Target micromedia
- Photo: Great shot of Mies. Photo by Werner Blaser.
- Cracker packaging
- Photo: This antique Skippy Racer is absolutely beautiful.
- Embrace real constraints, not artificial ones
- Instapaper lets you create a library of online articles on your iPhone
- Photo: Fractal food: Romanesco
- Real life usability
- Recent jobs posted to the Job Board: Nokia, Rainforest Action Network, Hewlett Packard, Joost, etc.
- [Screens Around Town] Apple screens: "Learn your way," support as a feature, and a greener icon
- Behind the scenes: Highrise Deals icons
- Link: Twitter vs. Yammer: Should web apps go for popularity or income?
- Rural Internet: Stuck in the Slow Zone
- Crusty Gold: Basecamp's footer badge
- Introducing WysiHat: An eventually better open source WYSIWYG editor
- My talk at the Business of Software conference (September 2008)
- New in Highrise: Track proposals, bids, and estimates with the new Deals feature
- Apple iPhone Ad: "Sequence shortened"
- Acquire taste
- Beware of future creep
- Filmmaking and participation
- Video: This promo video for SoundCloud shows how
- Product blog update: To-do list comments in Basecamp, Highrise on your BlackBerry, etc.
- Quote: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be
- Video: This is the guy who taught me how to balance
- Photo: WSJ redesigned. What do you think?
- The studio commentator arms race needs to stop
- Going in Unprepared
- Goodbye, Mothers
- Quote: In a connected world, countries, governments
- Learn from the right people at the right time
- A brief summary: Skateboard Graphics
- Link: Noodlr, the online noodle soup oracle
- Link: Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research
- Dark and dark
- Quote: There is a home for creatives in between
- The difference between common knowledge and universal knowledge
- Quote: There ain’t no rules around here. We’re try
- Video: Aaron Draplin talks about shitty signage at a funky motel.
- Sequoia Capital: Armchair quarterbacks
- Burger King vs. First CityWide Change Bank
- Quote: It's the small touches that won me over.
- Link: It's not its.
- Product blog update: Twitter inside Campfire, home organization with Backpack, Diabetes Hands Foundation/Basecamp case study, etc.
- Hulu figures out how to bring TV online
- Quote: In the world of ideas, to name something
- Quote: Rails tip: Use subdirectories to namespace
- Do it yourself first
- Photo: A map of the world that reflects casualties
- Be yourself
- Logbook: Keep your Backpack Journal up to date from your Mac menu bar
- Ask 37signals: How did you come up with pricing for your products?
- Quote: A "busman's holiday" is a holiday or vacation
- Quick posts
- Link: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things - Personal Lessons From The Financial Meltdown
- Quote: Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
- 37signals goes to Maine
- Nipple + Apple = Napple
- The Beauty of Ferdinand
- 1970 Holden GTR-X
- Designed: Senz aerodynamic umbrellas
- Ryan speaking at Future of Web Design in NYC November 3-4
- Pack half of what you think you need
- Why the Russian River Brewing Company is happy staying small
- Stroll the White City
- Carnegie 2.0: Chastise people in private, praise them in public
September 2008
- [Screens Around Town] Anthropologie, Threadless, and Gawker
- Recent jobs posted to the Job Board: NY Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, eBay/Kijiji, TechSmith, etc.
- Sketchnotes from Jason Fried's talk at Discovery World
- Product Blog update: UK-India Basecamp case study, Backpack for travel planning, etc.
- Hand Shadows
- 37signals Live: Today at 5:30PM CDT, tomorrow at 11:00AM CDT
- What we like lately
- Form Follows Email
- The traditional workplace is broken
- Making money twice
- Behind the scenes: Getting Real with free Campfire accounts
- The NO!SPEC campaign vs. crowdSPRING
- And now I Twitter too @jasonfried
- I liked Microsoft better when they were assholes
- Summaries of 37signals presentations at Web 2.0 Expo
- Product Blog update: Researching ancient texts with Backpack, leading martial arts site and Basecamp, writing a successful to-do list, etc.
- Defining the problem of elevator waiting times
- There's no shame in looking good
- JetBlue's riddle of a coupon
- Web 2.0 NYC reminder
- The Vice Fund: The ultimate investment for today's financial environment
- Turning aeroelastic flutter into third world power
- PleaseDressMe meets a niche need
- 37maze: First to solve it saves $50
- Plastic Logic Reader: Get to the wow
- Basecamp comment improvements: 72-hours later
- Swype keyboard for touchscreens
- 37signals Live: Thursday, September 11 at 11:00am central time
- Universal currency sign
- British Airways: Don't make me fail
- [Screens Around Town] Four Travel Deals, crowdSPRING, Foodzie, etc.
- Big new Basecamp feature: Attach files and post comments on to-dos and milestones
- A 36:1 ratio is actually pretty good
- [Quotable] Robert Stephens, David Pogue, Abraham Maslow, and more
- Preaching to the choir is a waste of time
- Nuts & Bolts: HAproxy
- How to manage long breaks in your software side projects
- Just words
August 2008
- Listen to Mark on the SA Pro podcast
- 37signals Affiliate Program Update
- Behind the scenes: Redesigning and coding the Highrise sidebar modules
- Activation fees are obscene
- Product Blog update: Highrise boosts magic site, flooring company uses Backpack, etc.
- The danger of laughing at your customers
- Architects: 1998 called and it wants its web sites back
- 37signals Live: Tuesday, August 26 at 11:00am central time
- Designing a better ballot
- 37signals on Github
- [Screens Around Town] Darden Studio, ShoeGuru, and Cymbolism
- Profanity works
- UI Sighting: Clear over clever on MobileMe
- Small Redux
- Introducing our new designer: Jamie Dihiansan
- Forbes misses the point of the 4-day work week
- Ask 37signals: Voting with your wallet?
- Product Blog update: Litmus and Basecamp, bulk mailing lists in Highrise, Less Accounting integration, etc.
- Recent jobs posted to the Job Board: Obama for America, Apple, Best Buy, Zillow, Rockstar Games, etc.
- Compass Bank and Backpack
- Domenico DeMarco and pizza as art
- On the cover: Adrian Holovaty and Everyblock
- Trust customers over VCs
- Beautiful disassembled appliances
- Big companies are where small companies go to die
- Sivers/Ferriss interview that will make you think
- Gearheads don't get it
- Product Blog update: Zendesk integration, graph Campfire usage, Periscope, etc.
- The next 37signals Live: Wednesday, August 13 at 11:00am central
- Olympic Inspiration
- Root @ 37S license plate
- Sour Apple: How an Apple ad sets the wrong expectations
- Don't be so quick to embrace your own ignorance
- The need for speed: Making Basecamp faster
- "No, but..." instead of "No"
- Getting Real 2 update: First draft done, publisher search continues
- Enough with the USB-key swag already!
- Chicago Thunderstorm
- Product Blog update: Wedding planning (Backpack), tracking miles (Basecamp), Getting Real one of the 77 best business books, etc.
- 37signals Live debuting tomorrow (Tues) at 3pm CDT
- Big business learning that smaller teams can rekindle the creative spark
- Follow 37signals on Twitter
July 2008
- Are you finding the root cause?
- What you expect from clients is what you will get
- 37signals is looking to hire a second system administrator
- [Quotable] NetNewsWire, JotSpot, Git, Google, old Texas sayings, etc.
- Philip Toledano's Days with My Father
- Average environments beget average work
- Chef David Chang on failure, Thoreau, and vegetarians
- Space Shuttle launch as seen from a plane (Air Canada flight)
- Product Blog update: Interior design firm uses Highrise, Backpack Journal and Twitter, attach files to Basecamp email replies, etc.
- Why would you want to call me?
- You don't have to sell your company to have financial security and the freedom to do what you want
- Separate pleasure and pain
- UI Candy: Audi's new MMI
- Modal overlays beyond the dialog box
- [On Writing] "The Omnivore's Dilemma" is a crappy title for a great book
- New color picker in Basecamp
- Nature is amazing: Trap-Jaw Ants
- New in Backpack: Share pages via email even if the other person doesn't have a Backpack account
- Why are modern sneakers so ugly?
- Picasso: Getting from here to there in twelve strokes
- iPhone 2.0: The glory wore off in wash
- [Screens Around Town] Thsrs, Posterous, Lohse, and T-26
- Webcasting software for the Mac?
- Upcoming 37signals speaking engagements
- New in Basecamp: Updated People and Permission screens
- Advice for entrepreneurs: Throw out that five-year plan, build something now, and don't take any money
- Soundcloud expands the audio player
- Watch out for everyone or no one
- Western Spaghetti
- Me so sorry
- Product Blog update: Switching from Salesforce to Highrise, Outpost to bring Basecamp to iPhone, Backpack Journal is "fan-frickin-tastic," etc.
- The early days: How 37signals built buzz out of the gate
- Nature is amazing: Gordian worms
- Fashion label Madewell uses Flash and video smartly
- Can iPhone developers make a living just developing iPhone software?
- Enter the iPhone apps
- Learning from "bad" UI
- Recent jobs posted to the Job Board: Montreal, San Diego, Hamburg, London, Iowa City, etc.
- Pixar's tightknit culture is its edge
- Product Blog update: Backpack "How to" pages, ProofHQ integration with Basecamp, etc.
- The human side of Pixar's robot
- There's more than one way to skin the revenue cat
- I had that idea years ago!
- Early retirement is a false idol
- [Quotable] Andrew Stanton, Stefan Sagmeister, Joel Spolsky, Philip Johnson, etc.
- Play this!
- Features are a one-way street
- [Screens Around Town] Google Maps, John Deere, EMS, etc.
- What's your favorite Twitter feed to follow (and why)?
June 2008
- Fresh UI ideas from Songza and Algorithm Ink
- Bang & Olufsen design team avoids meetings/process and "sculpts" products little by little
- Orchid mantis
- A pleasant failure
- Product Blog update: Fluid & 37signals, Jott & Backpack, YouTube & Campfire, etc.
- The MBA myth
- [Design Decisions] Basecamp support request form
- Mike Rohde's amazing sketchnotes from SEED 3
- What belongs in a helper method?
- Choosing the right things to say no to
- The new Cartype
- Generous link targets in the library
- Two very different takes on public sculpture and art
- Designers who also develop have more power
- Her way
- Product Blog update: AgileAgenda, Backpack Journal Dashboard widget, Kidmondo case study, etc.
- [Fly on the Wall] Garbage collection
- Windows Me vs. MobileMe
- [Screens Around Town] Login screens at Apple, Acrobat, and Vimeo
- Alaska Airlines saves millions by rethinking check-in flow
- A clever solution to a critical problem
- Cook like an engineer
- A great ad about Dutch simplicity
- How not to apply for a job
- The Word of Mouth Manual, Volume II
- He could be President
- Made in...
- Patience as a design principle
- Product Blog update: Import RSS feeds into Basecamp, Virb can't imagine life without Campfire, etc.
- "You have to treat your employees like customers"
- Git smart: How we're using Git to track our source code
- Talk about the best
- It doesn't have to be all or nothing with a startup
- We're looking for a designer who wants to kick our ass and change our game
- BMW's fascinating GINA Light Visionary Model design study
- Don't tackle your own good news
- Apple's MobileMe drops support for IE 6
- [On writing] Skybus, Slicehost, how to write good headlines, etc.
- Finding the natural size for your company
- Product Blog update: Mailmanagr for Basecamp, Backpack dragging tips, Campfire "indispensable" for Gizmodo, etc.
- Web designers should do their own HTML/CSS
- Bill Taylor visits 37signals
- Obama/Clinton support visualizer that rocks
- The customer doesn't care whose fault it is
- Launch: Announcing the new 37signals Affiliate Program (with recurring income)!
- Will your next meeting pass the "blizzard goggles" test?
- Why we skip Photoshop
- Ryan talks design on the Rails Podcast
- Amazon S3 Stats
- [Screens Around Town] Apple, FriendFeed, and Borders
May 2008
- Luke: Dean Kamen's wonderful prosthetic robot arm
- Saving small
- Retail politics in business
- Christopher Alexander on the difference between a fifty-year-old carpenter and a novice
- Product Blog update: Journal widget, bulk tagging in Highrise, eduFire case study, Washington Post on Highrise, etc.
- Ask 37signals: How do you say no?
- Padded link targets for better mousing
- How "Why Startups Fail" Fails
- Ask 37signals: How do you handle disagreements?
- Let's forget about Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook for a minute
- Shout-out: Mix 1 protein drink
- "Owning the launch too" and "The 2-week plan"
- Launch: The Backpack Journal
- The infographic that saved a million lives?
- Threadless makes the cover of Inc.
- Blues Explosion
- [Screens Around Town] Nivea, Newsweek, and "Yes to All"
- Productive jealousy
- Artistically stunning animated graffiti
- Memo: One of the best design agency sites I've seen in a long time
- Think about paths instead of hierarchies
- Robert Rauschenberg on process, change, boredom, and more
- AfriGadget: Constrained Creativity
- Haste is a form of violence.
- Product Blog update: GTD with Backpack, Getting Real case studies, updated Ta-Da List Widget, etc.
- Start a meeting by looking backward
- Recent jobs posted to the Job Board: Boulder, SF, New York, London, etc.
- You don't create a culture
- “Designing is not a profession but an attitude”
- Ask 37signals: Public communications policy?
- How to make a music video
- [Sunspots] The small steps edition
- Workaholics fixate on inconsequential details
- Help save the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Park Inn Hotel in Mason City Iowa
- [Screens Around Town] Facebook, MyPunchBowl, Nashbar, Quest Diagnostics, and Bearskinrug
- Ravelry gets funding from its own community
- Four More On Deck
- [Sunspots] The astronomy edition
- A classic tale of too many cooks in the kitchen
- Little tweaks, huge impact
- Worst Secret Keeper Ever
- Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor
- Focusing on permanent features in both real estate and business
April 2008
- Product Blog update: Baltimore Sun case study, Basecamp wins Webware 100 award, Backpack and the iPhone, etc.
- [Designed] A raft of home items
- Making a Rubik's Cube studio seem effortless
- Standing versus Sitting
- A minimalist, natural approach to kitchens from Hansen Living
- Portishead returns with Third
- [Sunspots] The old-fashioned edition
- Start a business, not a startup
- Why I love working with family people
- If you’re working in a big group, you’re fighting human nature
- Festo AirJelly
- Ask your doctor if ass effects is right for you
- Hail to the Twitter
- Spring bursts on the scene
- New Highrise screencasts: Send email to a person page, create tasks via email, import Outlook contacts into Highrise
- Quit your job!
- Designing Details: Autoscrolling the edit state
- Are you sure you want to be in San Francisco?
- Osmo Wiio: Communication usually fails, except by accident
- Advice from Coudal on how to transition from client work to products
- Custom CNN T-shirts
- You know you're at Stanford when...
- Good Company: Zingerman's
- Why do we plan up front?
- The secret to making money online
- [Sunspots] The type edition
- Basecamp recommended in a book published by the American Bar Association
- A peek at In/Out, an internal app at 37signals
- How Obama targets nonconsumption
- Design Decisions: Basecamp Project Switcher
- Gary Vaynerchuk's book
- Newseum: Today's Front Pages
- Good people in our industry: Jared Spool and Christine Perfetti from UIE
- Bitching is the killer app for Twitter
- Did Fernand Point write the greatest cookbook ever?
- Highrise VOIP mashup with Lypp
- Urgency is poisonous
- Color photos from the 1930's & 40's
- Tips on how to work smarter from Ricardo Semler
- Zürich Chamber Orchestra on a roll
- [Sunspots] The chopstick edition
- Seed 3 Conference update
- Forwarding voicemails?
- [Screens Around Town] The Superest, Design Museum in London, Treehugger, and Amazon
- Gary the Great: Vaynerchuk sets the example of how to succeed in business today
- George Patton quotes
- Product Blog update: New features in Basecamp and Highrise, Backpack vs. ADD, Mailplane, etc.
- [Sunspots] The thriving edition
- Excerpts from Ricardo Semler's book "Maverick: The Success Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace"
- Charlie Rose interviews Philip Johnson at 90 and 95
- Fractal Broccoflower
- Using Basecamp to automatically keep track of product releases
- Publish us: Getting Real, 2nd Edition
- The Sprint/Samsung iPhone knock-off
- Fun with stats, the S3 edition.
- More Backpack demo videos: adding users, sharing pages, and importing Basecamp Milestones
- SEED 3: June the 6th in Chicago at Crown Hall
- Perception, creativity and paint color
March 2008
- Where should we go?
- [Screens Around Town] TripIt, Theocacao, Gmail, and a look at "Availability" UI
- Latest jobs on the Job Board
- [Sunspots] The faces edition
- Ira Glass, entropy, and software development
- Great design: The airplane bathroom lock and light switch
- [On writing] Constraints, nightmares vs. dreams, seeking haters, etc.
- Muxtape: Beautifully simple
- Really, Amazon?
- Software carving
- Mantis birth
- Skyline Review: Phoenix Tower Market
- Clifford Stoll calls BS on the internet in 1995
- [Sunspots] The noodle edition
- The Flip takes 13% of the camcorder market by doing less
- Highrise's first birthday
- Title sequences from Saul Bass, the master of film title design
- Brian Dettmer's insanely creative Book Autopsies
- Car Design: The side crease is in
- Product Blog update: convert Basecamp projects to PDF, email rules for Backpack, etc.
- Lessons to learn from a do-it-yourself curry house
- 37signals in wood
- Is your wifi getting worse?
- Question your work
- Incredible "Big Dog" robot from Boston Dynamics
- [Screens Around Town] Farecast, Newsvine, and ExpanDrive
- [Sunspots] The scarcity edition
- Ricardo Semler and agile/lean principles
- All code will eventually go stale
- Tiny projects keep it new
- Product Blog update: Basecamp storage, podcast case study, Apple profiles a customer, Palm OS client for Backpack, etc.
- Web Conferences: Where's the outrage?
- Campfire fun
- Designing "in the pocket"
- Why we disagree with Don Norman
- Fire the workaholics
- [Sunspots] The droid edition
- iPhone SDK, Apple's Touch Platform, and The Next Two Decades
- Come see 37signals at SxSW
- Design Decisions: Adding the "Calendar Strip" to the Backpack Newsroom
- Optimize for now!
- Getting Real: Built-in seats in "A Pattern Language"
- Typical person? No such thing.
- [Mailbag] “It’s about time” clock, The Paige Compositor, tracking guide, etc.
- Recent Jobs posted to the Job Board
- Workplace Experiments
- MacBook Air selling strongly, surprised?
- Safari why must you be such a cookie monster?
- Behind the scenes at 37signals: Postscript
February 2008
- [Sunspots] The skillful edition
- Product Blog update: Webware 100, "a design freelancer’s best friend," Basecamp and GTD, Backpack reactions, etc.
- Design Decisions: Calendar picker for Backpack Reminders
- A great quote about size
- Share a negotiating story
- Join our Newsletter
- Advertising People: Pitch Us
- Mashup Lypp and Highrise for fun and profit
- 37signals Featured in Wired (March 2008 issue)
- How to Tamper in God's Domain (with screen printing)
- The true nexts are never reruns
- Feeling the pulse with Queen Bee
- [Designed] Staircase bookshelf, ice hotel, walkstation, cupcakes, etc.
- [Sunspots] The convergence edition
- Behind the scenes at 37signals: Miscellaneous
- [On writing] John Gruber, Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky, and Judge Judy
- Tip: Prevent iPhoto from opening when you plug in your iPhone
- The New Backpack's First 24 Hours
- Kirigami: the art of folding and cutting paper
- Launch: Backpack Multiuser (and single-user)
- Theory and Practice
- Making life easier with Spaces on Leopard
- Product Blog update: GTD with Highrise, Backboard, importing Salesforce data into Highrise, etc.
- The MacBook Air could easily be the only machine
- Beautiful matchbox labels from the 50s and 60s
- Preview 4: Group Calendar
- The lack of hassle with having multiple Macs
- Simple things I've seen this week that made me smile
- [Screens Around Town] Sliding in from the right at Netflix, Beanstalk, and Apple
- Preview 3: Backpack Page Changes
- Preview 2: Backpack Messages & Newsroom
- Steakhouse technique in a factory
- Preview: Backpack Multiuser
- Ask 37signals: How do you make screencast videos?
- Six Sells
- [Sunspots] The trust edition
- Mayor Daley gets his rant on
- Writeboards get autosave
- The important thing
- The OpenID party just picked up all the big boys
- A Brief Treatise on Octopus Development
- SpiderOak: Online backup and storage
- Ask 37signals: How do you document code?
- Upcoming speaking engagements
- Three food tips: roll your own soda, order the D-roll, and use fresh garlic
- Basecamp Turns Four
- Years of irrelevance
- Holding the future in your hand
- What are Super-delegates?
- Photograph your polling place
- [Sunspots] The primitive edition
- [On writing] Marketing madlibs
- Audi R8: Old Luxury just got put on notice
- SimpleBits joins The Deck
January 2008
- Garmin Nuviphone looks to take on the iPhone
- New Job Board features
- Launch: Campfire for iPhone
- Product Blog update: iBackpack, RunMyProcess, Ice Cube, etc.
- Edward Tufte sounds like Gene Simmons
- SEED II photos and reviews
- Car cut-away gallery
- Hiring with your gut
- A peek at Queen Bee
- Them MacBook Air peoples are horrible!
- EveryBlock launches
- Monetize: A word we didn't need
- [Sunspots] The bandit edition
- [On Writing] Biz dev emails and first impressions
- Images and words that self destruct
- [Screens Around Town] OpenTable, St. Louis Cardinals, and Apple
- Barbara Cook's master class in connecting with an audience
- Amazon's obsession with customers pays off
- A very different approach to tagging
- Job Board: Recent postings
- New 1-minute Highrise videos: Introduction, Tasks, and Cases
- Steve Albini and Robert Kalin, recent Signal vs. Noise subjects, stop by to add their .02
- Designing packaging for an album (a.k.a. how to build a troubadour)
- Music producer Steve Albini explains his studio and the record business
- Ask 37signals: How is Campfire different than a meeting?
- What happened this morning?
- [Sunspots] The crisp edition
- Fluid: Wrap your favorite web apps in their own browser
- Chuck Jones draws Wile E. Coyote
- Yahoo! accounts become valid OpenIDs
- Feeding our keynote addiction with Campfire
- Lessons from Etsy on building community
- Product Blog update: Basecamp image-grid view, Backpack examples, etc.
- [Fly on the Wall] Xerox logo, long receipts, Argentina, and Cook's Illustrated
- Congratulations to Mike Domek and TicketsNow
- Ask 37signals: When do I launch?
- How to take control of a massive iTunes music library
- Allow me to introduce myself and my squid
- A new guest artist at SvN: Phineas X. Jones
- Neat vintage computer photos from the Core Memory Project
- Mini-Review: Amazon Kindle vs. Sony Reader
- Getting work done despite the enterprise
- [Sunspots] The quality of life edition
- The easiest way to charge money for software
- The Sidney Weinberg success story
- Product Blog update: GR-FX case study, Highrise for internal staff, search Backpack with LaunchBar, etc.
- Ask 37signals: Why did you restart Highrise?
- Ingenuity under your desk
- Eames stamps coming this summer
- Jason Fried discusses Highrise, red flag words, opinionated companies, and benevolent dictators
- CommandShift3 voters rank the designs of candidate sites
- In praise of lazy
- Letters from readers on great buildings, bad support, Getting Real with video games, etc.
- Flight Thru Instruments
- Designing Interactions: Book recommendation
- [Screens Around Town] New York Magazine, WellStyled.com, and Bento
- [Sunspots] The mystical edition
- Obama's victory speech
- Discovering a new interest: Whittling
- Behind the scenes at 37signals: Support
- Latest news from the Product Blog
- Security, for starters
December 2007
- Lessons from T-Mobile's support
- Gene Lee says goodbye
- Ask 37signals: How do you process credit cards?
- Personal attention drives Apple Store success
- SEED almost sold out
- Ask 37signals: Numbers?
- Where did the intranets go?
- [Sunspots] The persuasive edition
- [Link it up] Mobile web app interfaces
- [On Writing] CBS News Forums, Peerless Faucets, and Norman Mailer
- Latest news from the Product Blog
- Ask 37signals: How do you feel about stories?
- Ask 37signals: 10 ways to "get ink"
- Google's new iPhone app: "Nothing speaks louder than code"
- [Sunspots] The blue collar edition
- [Fly on the Wall] New feature at Amazon, EVDO, Gmail spam filtering, and "Tips"
- [Screens Around Town] Sequoia, 1-800-GOT-JUNK, and Blockbuster
- Latest news from the Product Blog
- Behind the scenes at 37signals: Copywriting
- Rails 2.0
- [Sunspots] The turtle edition
- "Everything Sucksism" and The Onion
- Kasper Hauser takes on Craigslist scammers
- When cruft creeps in
- Product Blog update
- [37signals Job Board] Digg, R/GA, Cars.com, etc.
- Ask 37signals: Installable software?
- [Screens Around Town] Actionhead Studios, Salad vs. Big Mac, and Meetup
November 2007
- Redonkulous unsubscribe delays
- Sunspots: The elephants on acid edition
- Behind the scenes at 37signals: Sysadmin and development
- SEED Conference: Take two (January 18, 2008 in Chicago)
- Ask 37signals: Breaking a stalemate
- Jeffrey Hardy joins 37signals
- Depressurize the priorities
- Accuracy vs. Identity
- Prescription UI
- Product Blog update
- Kindle ignites the flames
- Presentation Tip: Talk first, write second
- Live search at Job Board
- Behind the scenes at 37signals: Coding
- How It's Made
- 60 Minutes takes a dump on "millennials"
- [Sunspots] The fish monger edition
- There are no bugs, only unintended causation
- Product Blog update
- Ask 37signals: How do I get started building my experience?
- Darryl C. Didier
- Ask 37signals: How do you test your software?
- Ask 37signals: Is formal education important?
- [Screens Around Town] Typography.com, Catalog Choice, etc.
- Downtime notice
- Is the Piracy Paradox missing the point?
- Ask 37signals: Why OS X and not Linux?
- You don't need a product road map
- Ask 37signals: How has open source helped or hindered?
- Corbis acquires VEER
- Ask 37signals: Personas?
- [Sunspots] The horsepower edition
- Ask 37signals: Any big risky decisions?
- What Gordon Ramsay can teach software developers
- [Fly on the Wall] RSS vs email, Media descriptions, Roll the dice, and Russian spam
October 2007
- Product Blog update
- BIF-3: A wonderful conference
- Behind the scenes at 37signals: Design
- Mike Rohde's SEED Conference 2007 sketchbook notes
- Inspiring Ricardo Semler lecture at MIT
- The Deck: One opening for November
- [Sunspots] The civilian edition
- Product Blog update
- Software with a sense of humor
- Rails Programmer Wanted
- Resell Highrise?
- Ask 37signals: What is the best way to get customers who signup to actually use a product?
- Political Bullshit
- Can Microsoft buy cool from Facebook?
- Why Enterprise Software Sucks
- Ask 37signals: Can I build a product business if I'm just a designer?
- Recent job board posts: Netflix, The College Board, Notre Dame, etc.
- Thomas Edison ideas
- How opinionated companies get customers to live without floppy drives, assigned seats, credit cards, etc.
- [Sunspots] The echolocation edition
- Basecamp customer videos now in Flash
- Ask 37signals: What about research, interviews, and documentation?
- Ask 37signals: The genesis and benefits of Rails
- Product Blog update
- Block 37 and Joseph Freed?
- Design Decisions: Backpack's new "Add Anywhere" feature
- Price drop haters
- Thomas Jefferson's best advice
- 37signals College Tour?
- Ask 37signals: How to go from clients to products?
- [Sunspots] The fragrant edition
- [Screens Around Town] Snooth, British Airways, and Facebook
- Layer Tennis: Match three underway
- Newsletters that teach
- [Mailbag] Natura, Mark Cuban, Ron Paul, etc.
- Product Blog update
- Ask 37signals: Is it really the number of features that matter?
- Using Highrise to conquer customer service problems
- Ask 37signals: Do I need a designer to make pretty?
- Microsoft System Center Ad
- Csikszentmihalyi: "Time is more flexible than most of us think"
- [Sunspots] The barnacle edition
- [On Writing] Zappos, Chocolove, and Bill Bryson
- László Moholy-Nagy's visual representation of Finnegan's Wake
- Product Blog update
- TiECON Midwest on Oct 5 in Chicago
- The business version of an internal affairs cops
- [Screens Around Town] Design Shack, iSquint, and LinkedIn
- iPhone: Context over consistency
- SEED almost sold out
- Ask 37signals: How to escape the waterfall?
- Cool design detail at Monome
September 2007
- Ask 37signals: Pressure to grow?
- [Sunspots] The milk edition
- The management philosophy of Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster
- Ask 37signals: How do you keep up with new technology?
- Product Blog update
- Waking up the sleepers
- Ask 37signals
- Can you be innovative by standing still?
- Erling Ellingsen's $2 multi-touch pad
- A great experience... on radio!
- Recent job postings on the 37signals Job Board
- Announcing the SEED Conference featuring Jim Coudal, Jason Fried, and Carlos Segura
- I'll buy if
- [Sunspots] The can-do edition
- Navigating the HTML email jungle
- Product Blog update
- [On Writing] Gym Jones, Moosejaw, Amazon
- Upcoming 37signals Speaking Engagements
- Showing the plug, not the cable
- Secrets to Amazon's success
- Don't make me scream
- [Sunspots] The deep breath edition
- [Screens Around Town] Facebook, Virgin America, Time, etc.
- Product Blog update
- Lessons on shutting down a service from Yahoo! Photos
- "He led by caring"
- Ain't nothing wrong with contradiction
- Shattered still life
- Been lightboxed lately?
- Brainstorm: The software garden
- Kiva: Help working poor entrepreneurs in the developing world
- The Deck turns 21
August 2007
- [Sunspots] The futurist edition
- Writing better help wanted ads
- Product Blog update
- Going inbox-zero on your paper mail
- Design Decisions: Highrise import
- An exercise in clarity: Seamless
- Crain's Chicago Business interviews Jason
- Five marketing/business lessons from Harry Houdini
- [Sunspots] The flea market edition
- Who wants to live in The Real World?
- A real estate myth: The buyer's agent is free
- Stéphane Mallarmé: "A Painter's Poet"
- But there's only so many ways to do something, right?
- [Mailbag] Indesit, The 10th Dimension, Simplicity In UX, etc.
- Product Blog update
- Contextual Advertising
- [Screens Around Town] .Mac, Twitter, Swerve Festival
- [Sunspots] The handshake edition
- Design Decision: Welcome Tab vs. Primer
- A collection of details
- A peek inside Moleskine notebooks by artists, designers, architects, etc.
- Dick Costolo: The wizard is in
- Recent job postings on the 37signals Job Board
- [On writing] Please type DNA
- Design Decision Revision: When to prompt for an upgrade
- [Screens Around Town] Metcheck, Prime Time Window Cleaning, LifeLock
- How Apple's small things influence their big things
- Product Blog update
- Design Decisions: When to prompt for an upgrade
- Fleeing free
- Bike sheds and C. Northcote Parkinson
- Billy Collins action poetry and Alan Watts gets the South Park treatment
- [Sunspots] The single-take edition
- An under-the-hood look at the new Backpack
- Little CSS print stylesheet tip
- If the Freakonomics guys and Malcolm Gladwell hosted This American Life...
- "How I built my family a windmill"
- Design Decisions: Permissions in Basecamp
- Product Blog update
- [Screens Around Town] Transmit's dynamically changing date format
July 2007
- [Mailbag] Jeep, Dyson, the Acropolis, etc.
- Spot on
- Survival lessons from Man vs. Wild's Bear Grylls
- The Swarm: Attacking as a pack
- Why isn't it done yet?
- [Fireside Chat] Brian Crabtree (Monome), David Rose (Ambient Devices), and Nathan Seidle (Spark Fun Electronics) - Part 2 of 2
- In the presence of greatness
- [Screens Around Town] Zip codes
- The 5, 10, 20 year plan
- [Sunspots] The tenacious edition
- Champions pay the price
- Product Blog update
- Launch: The New Backpack
- Eerie timing on 365 Main press release
- Recent Job Board posts: Happy Cog, JibJab, Sapient, etc.
- [Screens Around Town] Best Cellars, Campaign Monitor, Alexa
- iPhone tells you where someone is calling from
- Backpack Preview 3: Moving items to different pages
- [Fireside Chat] Brian Crabtree (Monome), David Rose (Ambient Devices), and Nathan Seidle (Spark Fun Electronics) - Part 1 of 2
- [Sunspots] The ecology edition
- Presidential candidate logos = politics as usual
- [Mailbag] Volvo, Seagate, Tufte Mint, etc.
- Backpack Preview 2: Page dividers
- Product Blog update
- Blinking Bluetooth headsets
- Preview 1: The new Backpack, items anywhere
- [Fly on the Wall] Paying attention to users, mow the lawn vs. cut the grass, chowder, HTML forms
- 37signals Open Bar Single Sign-on now includes Highrise
- Amazon's delivery subscriptions
- Notepads based on the grids used in famous publications
- [On Writing] Slimmy, Mosso, and Antipodes
- OS split at BasecampHQ.com
- Product Blog update
- What do you want to know?
- 5 business lessons from Costco
- [Sunspots] The enthusiasm edition
- iPhone & Highrise: A quick email-a-task tip
- Stefan Sagmeister at TEDTalks: "Yes, design can make you happy"
- [Screens Around Town] Xbox, Sharp, and R-mail
- A reminder about the power of email
- Product Blog update
- The Way To Wealth: The best business book is also the shortest
- Ta-da List for iPhone
- Recent Job Board posts: The New York Times, IDEO, Electronic Arts, etc.
- [On Writing] David Simon, Pamela Slim, and Leonard Budney on Christopher Alexander
June 2007
- Is the web killing our culture?
- [Sunspots] The DNA edition
- [Fly on the Wall] YouTube commenters, iPhone service plans, UPS
- iPhone's disappearing spacebar
- Design Decisions: Highrise List view and the "Uncolor"
- [Link it up] Children's book authors
- Nintendo pounds Sony and MS in sales
- iPhone reviews: The first batch
- What if I actually like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript?
- Product Blog update
- [Screens Around Town] Photojojo, HP, and Safeway
- Basecamp gets OpenID and "Open Bar"
- Sunspots: The black box edition
- Four hours upfront and then reevaluate
- Designing for the iPhone is a refreshing experience
- Ware Voltaire
- Product Blog update
- Alvin Lustig refused to "design down"
- [On Writing] Ambrosia, Skeeter Bag, Eurythmics, and Footprint
- New Basecamp customer videos: Coudal Partners, Threadless, OrganizedWisdom
- [Sunspots] The tactile edition
- Sketching with a Sharpie
- [Screens Around Town] Crate and Barrel, Amazon, and Ticketweb
- Cover Flow and the scrolling horizontal subnav at the new Apple.com
- Product Blog update
- I Wonder
- TeamSnap makes it easy to manage your team
- iPhone SDK: It's called Safari
- Recent Job Board postings: Cooper-Hewitt, Skype, AOL, etc.
- [Fireside Chat] Jonathan Harris, Aaron Koblin, and Marcos Weskamp (Part 2 of 2)
- Sopranos: On design and creativity
- Vote for Basecamp
- Designed: Edge Brownie Pan
- Why most copywriting on the web sucks
- [Sunspots] The freedom edition
- How do you put your heart into that?
- Product Blog update
- What's your cookbook?
- Top 10 vendors winning the SMB online experience race
- [Fireside Chat] Jonathan Harris, Aaron Koblin, and Marcos Weskamp (Part 1 of 2)
- How do they make money?
- Amit Singhal and Google's secret search sauce
- iPhone Ads: Perfect advertising
- Feedburner to Google
- IDEO's Jane Fulton Suri observes "thoughtless acts"
May 2007
- Time is the one truly limited resource
- [Mailbag] XM, Jitterbug, IDEO, Iconic technology, etc.
- Four letter words
- Product Blog week in review
- Mike Wallace interviews Frank Lloyd Wright
- Jeff Tweedy and Jack White on the web, business, creative choices, etc.
- [Design Decisions] New comment lines at Basecamp "Messages" screen
- [Sunspots] The silverware edition
- 37signals in Time Magazine
- [Screens Around Town] Clickbank, Commerce Bank, Freshbooks
- I [heart] Basecamp customer videos
- [On Writing] SORBS, Wondermill, Banzai De Bug, "Think Like a Chef," Oprah-speak
- The technology of OLPC's hundred dollar laptop
- New in Basecamp: List view
- Questions for Harris, Weskamp, Koblin chat?
- 18 in The Deck
- Jane Siberry's "you decide what feels right" pricing
- Why Irv & Shelly’s Fresh Picks gets it right
- The original blog commenters
- [Sunspots] The chessboxing edition
- Achieving emptiness with "Bit Literacy"
- AIGA Small Talk in NYC event rescheduled
- [Launch] The 37signals product blog
- [Screens Around Town] Mint, MySpace, Monkeyfood , and Yahoo! Music
- David Chang's recipe for sustaining food/business mojo
- Home and End: Two of the most useful yet underrated keys on the keyboard
- [Mailbag] Raymond Chen, Pinkberry, Massimo Vignelli, Frank Gehry, etc.
- Qantas journey planner sets in-flight expectations
- The Highrise API is here
- James Dyson on living a life of failure
- [Designed] Casado pinhole, Takagi Masakatsu, Moleskine popups, Narrative Footwear, and fertility chart
- Highrise now imports contacts from Outlook and ACT!
- Design Decisions: New forums at Basecamp and Highrise
- [Sunspots] The perseverance edition
- [Screens Around Town] Gizmo, Abel Cole, eBay, and iSquint
- Departure Management Card
- "Year Zero" project = "the way a viral campaign should be run"
April 2007
- Cookware advice
- Red Hat: If we ship it, we support it
- [Screens Around Town] Brightkite, Chicago2016, and NBA
- Helpful distortion at NYC & London subway maps
- [Fireside Chat] Icon designers (Part 3 of 3)
- Update on Getting Real translations
- Recent job postings on the 37signals Job Board
- Hall and Strogatz on getting in sync
- Roger Ebert: I ain't a pretty boy no more and so what?
- [Sunspots] The keyless edition
- Highrise, the first 30 days
- Mingering Mike's cover art
- [Fireside Chat] Icon designers (Part 2 of 3)
- I'd rather be Microsoft than Yahoo
- Don't be a hero: Giving up is good
- Henrik Fisker: A three-part interview with a master car designer
- Design Decisions: "Upload a new version of..." in Basecamp
- 37signals Customer Summit exploration
- New Campfire feature: Kick a guest
- [Designed] pogoLibrary, tea lights, Heely's, perpetual calendar, and home defibrillator
- Getting the message in
- Design/copy ups and downs at Virb
- Upcoming 37signals speaking engagements
- [Fireside Chat] Icon designers (Part 1 of 3)
- Chicago Summer Olympics in 2016?
- Dear No First Name
- [Sunspots] The Mammatus edition
- Projector recommendations?
- Reining in the recruiters
- Subway Stradivarius
- Define the "real world" in 10 words or less
- Living in the city
- The Basecamp Ecosystem grows
- Real estate photos worth more than a thousand words
- The most creative web site I've seen in a long time (or maybe ever)
- [Sunspots] The vector edition
- People don't scroll...emails
- Susan Kare: User interface graphic designer
- [Fly on the Wall] Lifelock, Motionbox, print stylesheets, shoe repair, posts, Dordoni table, and Daring Fireball ad
- Moto: Cantu can do
- Promotion: Get Campfire for free when you upgrade or sign up for certain Highrise or Basecamp accounts
- Mini-Review: Sony Reader
- Questions for icon designers?
- Highrise Public Contact Cards: From idea to feature to launch in 48 hours
- [Screens Around Town] Orvis, The Consult, Vista, and Quizlet
- You're not on a fucking plane (and if you are, it doesn't matter)!
March 2007
- People have no idea why they're doing what they're doing
- Craig: Keep the Internet neutral, fair and free
- Hotmail offers
- Recent gig postings on the 37signals Gig Board
- [Sunspots] The universal edition
- UI Workshops with Ryan in London
- [Screens Around Town] Zune, PHP Developers' Network, Planet Argon, and AmEx
- Wishing Kathy well
- Warren Buffett on castles and moats
- Recent job postings on the 37signals Job Board
- [Mailbag] Thinkmetric, Wesabe, tax software, etc.
- Worldmapper
- Top Gear in the Bugatti Veyron
- Excerpts from Stephen King's "On Writing"
- Highrise: Early stats, Cases for all, the new Solo plan, and more disk space!
- [Sunspots] The vision edition
- Help wanted: Customer/tech support and community manager
- LAUNCH: Highrise
- Excerpts from Apartment Therapy's "The Eight Step Home Cure"
- [Screens Around Town] Guinness, What the Font?, Facebook
- [Sunspots] The bedouin edition
- Preview 8: Highrise Cases
- Auto-mode vs. shooting manual
- Photos of 37signals HQ
- [Fly on the Wall] Pale blue, lens steps, Draft, furniture with a face, Mail.app vs. the clipboard, and wild eagles
- Preview 7: Highrise plays well with email
- Newspapers and web design
- [Screens Around Town] Code Igniter, 800-Flowers, Dreamhost
- Preview 6: Highrise people, companies, and the dashboard
- [Lingo] Judo
- Making random contacts
- [Sunspots] The upstream edition
- What do you want to know?
- Four More on The Deck
- Apple stores get the last laugh
- Recent job postings on the 37signals Job Board
- Preview 5: Highrise tasks
- Treat cute, clever, and cool as spices
- [On Writing] Keeping it real
- Speed up Mail.app
- Computerworld: The Top Five Technologies You Need to Know About in '07
- Animation of a Samuel L. Jackson Pulp Fiction speech in type
- [Fireside Chat] skinnyCorp-Threadless and Connected Ventures-Vimeo (part 2 of 2)
February 2007
- Redesigned alphabet
- Preview 4: Adding people to Highrise and dealing with duplicates
- Design Decisions: Campfire transcript browser redesign
- [Fireside Chat] skinnyCorp-Threadless and Connected Ventures-Vimeo (part 1 of 2)
- Albino peacock
- Irei, genchi genbutsu, muda, and other secrets to Toyota's business success
- Maserati GranTurismo
- Rubikubism: Embracing constraints
- Preview 3: Highrise welcome and workspace tabs
- [Designed] Movie poster of the year, Bill Sullivan photographs, Ridgid drill, and new coins
- Recent job postings on the 37signals Job Board
- Less house
- [Sunspots] The effusive edition
- [Fly on the Wall] Nice modals, web apps game changer, Popular Science, Squid Gates
- Great (chalk) album covers
- Preview 2: Highrise permissions and groups
- Be the guy with the megaphone and other lessons from a JetBlue meltdown
- "If you know the exact cost and the exact schedule, chances are that the technology is obsolete."
- Get the kids to lift it
- Control vs. Communication
- Ex-Gizmodo guru says average Joes are smarter than early adopters
- Stanley Kubrick quotes
- Wintry mix
- Weather.com's odd priorities
- [Sunspots] The mingling edition
- Grace periods
- Using small multiples to get to "Aha!"
- Preview 1: An introduction to Highrise (the product previously known as Sunrise)
- [On Writing] Textbook Evaluator
- Danny Meyer: Hospitality is king
- Hum(an) (doc)ument
- [Screens Around Town] Daylife, Happy Cog, Adium
- Quotes on business, marketing, writing, etc.
- Budweiser ad a ripoff?
- [Sunspots] The appropriate edition
- Champagne chair finalists
- Happy Birthday: Basecamp turns 3
- Competitors create opportunities
- RailsConf '07 sells faster than any other O'Reilly conference
- Convenience over quality
- [On Writing] Restricting text at Panopticist, SuprBlog, 37signals
- Chicago
- Calling all Basecamp customers in NYC or Chicago
- Optional brakes?
- [Screens Around Town] Amazon
- Update on Getting Real translations
- [Blasts from the Past] Rosa Medicinae, Pythagoras' Theorem, Milton's Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
January 2007
- [Sunspots] The intuition edition
- Personal Change
- [Link It Up] Great buildings
- [Fireside Chat] Seth Godin and Mark Hurst (Part 2 of 2)
- Graphicwriters and Speechdesigners
- Paradox of the active user (aka "I don't *want* to RTFM")
- [Fireside Chat] Seth Godin and Mark Hurst (Part 1 of 2)
- [Screens Around Town] Stunt Software, On The Fly, Citysearch
- In our language
- Please welcome Jeremy Kemper to 37signals
- A spoon or a jackhammer?
- [Fly on the Wall] Yarn cart, cheap cloning, facial recognition, etc.
- Stop making sense?
- Chicken portraits
- [Sunspots] The tech neck edition
- Humanized Enso
- I am the last one
- [Screens Around Town] Macy's, DrawerGeeks, Senduit
- [37signals Lingo] Low hanging fruit
- Ripe for parody
- [Designed] Logitech Harmony 880 Remote, Go Light On My Lips, Terrariums, The Heads of State, The Douche Card
- The Curse of Knowledge
- Questions for Seth Godin and Mark Hurst?
- Recent job postings on the 37signals Job Board
- Simplicity → clarity → being understood: Mark Rothko, etc.
- Rails 1.2 gives REST, alleviates UTF-8 pains
- [Screens Around Town] The Quicksilver Radial Menu
- [On Writing] Describing a slice instead of the whole pie
- The Future of Web Design in London
- These aren't funny
- Exhibiting at tradeshows
- I want to be faster
- Getting Real in other languages
- Mark Cuban on "the suit"
- [Sunspots] The prosthetic edition
- Netflix' (bumpy) introduction of streaming video
- The Deck: Update
- The MacGuffin
- iPhone trails
- [Designed] Gazprom, Gorillapod, Fishtank
- This is good for you
- Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics"
- Registering Writeroom
- [Sunspots] The habitable edition
- Hi my name is Sam
- [Screens around town] Pioneer Theatre, MailBuild, and Firefox
- iPhone: Not touchy feely
- Apple Phone: My prediction
- LinkedIn just won't let me go
- Frustration is exponential
- Details are the design
- Hercules Hook
- Degrees of "can't"
- The North Face Endurus XCR Boa Trail Running Shoe
- The Youngest Grocer in America
- Recent job postings on the 37signals Job Board
December 2006
- 2006: The year in posts (part 6)
- 2006: The year in posts (part 5)
- 2006: The year in posts (part 4)
- 35 most outrageous fees
- 2006: The year in posts (part 3)
- 2006: The year in posts (part 2)
- [Screens around town] Overstock, Griffin, and Masterfile
- 2006: The year in posts (part 1)
- Why do blog comments seem to bring out the worst in people so often?
- [Screens around town] Quicksilver, Logitech, and Yikers
- The visual principles of storyboarding
- [Sunspots] The 10:08 edition
- [Screens around town] "The difference is obvious."
- Type that keeps the beat
- Holiday gift ideas
- Presentations: Apologies bad, pauses good
- Why are you not hiring remote workers?
- [Link it up] The tools you use
- [Screens around town] Feedburner, YouTube, and Gifttagging get clever
- "Forget the detail" and other animation-inspired lessons
- Marrakech Cuisine, a Moroccan restaurant recommendation
- Sunspots: The wizard edition
- On Writing: About Amphibian, Jewelboxing, Pinder, and Slantmouth
- A little 37signals redesign
- Cool inventions
- Screens Around Town: PlainSimple, College Humor, and Demetri Martin keep it simple
- Glasswing Butterfly
- Keeping the cruft out of your release
- Taming the RSS beast
- The difference between trying something and using something
- Sunspots: The flying paint edition
- On Writing: Managing disaster at Freshbooks, Dreamhost, Dancing Trees
- Wanted: A video of you talking about why you love Basecamp (Reward: $250)
- Who is Jeff Craig and what is Sixty Second Preview?
- The 10 most popular newspaper typefaces
November 2006
- Free City Supershop, Threadless, and communicating value through detail
- One last Deck slot open for December
- Blasts from the past: de Honnecourt's architectural sketches, Renaissance typography, Oliver Byrne's edition of Euclid
- Amazon goes UnSpun with Ruby on Rails
- Design Decisions: Basecamp help
- On Writing: Warren Buffett, London Review of Books personals, kGTD
- Favicon protest
- Sunspots: The ox carving edition
- Nintendo thriving in third place
- Cartype is Car Obsession
- Quiet refusals
- Vintage illustrations
- Solving big problems by paying attention to small things
- Recent job postings on the 37signals Job Board
- New ideas for promoting books
- Screens: News.com, Archive.org, Walmart
- I've had it up to here with "up to"
- Sunspots: The MV = PY edition
- Less dessert = incremental profits
- Play buttons and YouTube's interface
- Funny business
- Sound Opinions show summaries
- Look beyond gas mileage when making an environmental choice
- Beautiful Code: The evolution of an iterator
- Dropping out
- How to make money on cars with less
- We close when the bread runs out
- Basecamp integration arrives in Blinksale, Harvest, Phonified, and more
- Sunspots: The disruptive edition
- Fireside Chat: Mark Fletcher and Marc Hedlund (Part 3 of 3)
- The waiting is the hardest part
- Basecamp turns 1,000,000
- Designed: Witty
- All about flow
- More on icons, ads, and balancing "I want" with "they want"
- Fireside Chat: Mark Fletcher and Marc Hedlund (Part 2 of 3)
- The Deck: Thanks to our November sponsors
- Election night graphics
- Sunspots: The Crockett and Tubbs edition
- Screens: Different approaches to comments
- Fireside Chat: Mark Fletcher and Marc Hedlund (Part 1 of 3)
- Designed: NFL cheat sheets, Red Microphones, Penguin covers
- Recent job postings on the 37signals Job Board
- Get off
- The power of rough edges
- Eclipse Big-E-Pak: Smart design
- Sunspots: the strobe edition
- Send Edward Tufte to Baghdad?
October 2006
- It's the content, not the icons
- Cooking with comics
- Aston Martin Rapide: The most beautiful four door ever?
- Lineform offers on the spot help text
- Design Decisions: Backpack page blank slate
- Designed: Giant remote, motorcycle hand controls, the Black Box
- Consumer Reports' unfortunate advice
- Sunspots: The intuitive edition
- Screens Around Town: Cork'd blog, Apple, T-Mobile, Needapresent.com, the Fart button
- Getting Real, the book, now comes in three flavors
- Web developers: Microsoft has no idea what's going on
- Traffic vs. employees
- And the winner for best support email ever is...(see image)
- William Utermohlen's self-portraits
- 7 reasons why Threadless rules
- Kumbaya = Campfire + RubyOSA + iTunes + Marshmallow
- The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
- Design Decisions: Sharing in Backpack
- 37signals in Crain's, Sun-Times, and on Apple.com
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