Archive for the 'tools' Category



If anyone has used Axure for prototyping, I’d be interested in hearing about your experience. I’m particularly interested in the ability to use a library of templates (like protokit) as a base.

James Robertson and my co-worker Jeff Potts have a great discussion running on the problems with workflow in content management applications.
Workflows can be infinitely flexible when they are modeled the way work is really done. What’s needed is a model that more accurately reflects how people naturally work.
I think linear workflows are inherently flawed […]

SVN as a Web Site Maintenence Tool

Branching and tagging are very basic and common practices in software development, but much less common in web site development. It’s hard to stress enough the benefit of having your web site under source control and being able to take advantage of all these capabilities.