The title pretty much says it all. After working for a while now in an agile development model. I’ve discovered several disturbing things that really cause a loss of sanity. The agile development cycle is quite fast. Depending on your team it has different lengths. Most iterations seem to be 1 week long. During that […]

So as I was laying here sick in bed and thinking about design stuff. That’s the great thing or a curse about having a design based job. Even while you are sick you can’t always turn off your brain. So unless asleep or staring at the tv you are always thinking.
So the concept I was […]

Imagine with me a minute that you have just identified in your Book Keeper 2.0 web application that too much information and functionality is jammed into the “add new book” page. The business analysts insist that everything needs to be available to the user. They “need” to have the ability to do numerous things on 1 particular […]

One topic that constantly is under debate in the corporate design world is: “Who makes the final decision.” Does the designer, business analyst, information architect, developer etc? Personally, this has been a major area of contention. When it comes to design and the user interface everyone wants to proclaim they are Caesar. Can you blame […]

As 100% of the web tends to be, this is a work in progress. This site is structured towards the corporate & in-house designer. The current plan is to outline web application projects and provide tips, examples, design patterns, and best practices for the delivery of “CTHINKER Fake APP”. More about this later on as […]