There are a lot of posts lately about how to develop meaningful, long-lasting relationships with your clients. I definitely applaud the discussion, and I certainly try very hard to do so with my own clients. But there’s an aspect of this relationship which is not often part of the discussion: chemistry. When we looked around for a
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I am not someone who easily admits I’m wrong. Don’t get me wrong, I know I’m often wrong. I just don’t admit it. Especially when it comes to my area of expertise. So this post is particularly hard for me to do. Inspired by the work of Brené Brown on vulnerability, I write this because never admitting you are wrong is
Today we officially launch DOManager, a simple interface to manage all of your client’s web information in one place. This beautiful project was brought to me by Frédéric Sune from WP Expert, and it was loads of fun, and a great learning opportunity. Just the type of project I’m after! When Frédéric approached me, he had
A while back, I was watching a documentary on the Château de Chambord. They were looking at its very special and complex architecture trying to find hints of Leonardo da Vinci’s involvement, and so I got to see the master’s notebooks again. I’ve always been fascinated by da Vinci’s notebooks, full of scribbles and sketches, sometimes even one on
A few months ago, I posted about how hiring experts make all the difference in the world. That was for my nibnut logo. Well, I have again asked for help from more talented people than me, and I again am floored by how much greater their work is to mine. Working with the most excellent
A while back, I was watching a documentary on the Château de Chambord. They were looking at its very special and complex architecture trying to find hints of Leonardo da Vinci’s involvement, and so I got to see the master’s notebooks again. I’ve always been fascinated by da Vinci’s notebooks, full of scribbles and sketches, sometimes even one on
I have not written in a while for two reasons: the first is that I have my head down in a very cool project with a client, and still working full time on building my new company nibnut. I tend to isolate myself when the crunch happens, (not good – working on that) and that means I
The best results can only be achieved using an expert and great tools. We all feel our expertise and knowledge “bleeds” outside our true expertise and knowledge. Programmers *cough!* Me! *cough!*, for instance, and web programmers in particular, tend to think they can also do decent design work. Sometimes they do happen to be good at
There’s a lot of talk about success these days, at least on my channels, and how it is measured. I think success is a personal thing: it’s likely not the same for everybody. Yet, all the success stories we hear about in the business world are of one of two types: small businesses that were bought
Gone are the days of trying to build applications that could do a sub-par job for as many users as possible. Here are the days of apps that fit so perfectly to a user's needs.
We can build tools now that are an extension of how the user thinks and works, so the app adapts itself to the user, not the other way around.
I call this built-in empathy.