http://imulus.com/blog Ramblings, Random Thoughts and Coding Goodness Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:11:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Am I the only one who doesn't like the new JCPenney logo? I feel like people have an "Emperor's New Clothes" complex - no one wants to come out and say it's bad because everyone wants to believe it works. JCPenney's new CEO Ron Johnson is a former Apple and ... http://imulus.com/blog/kathryn/opinion/jc-penneys-new-logo/ It's well discussed that service based companies often have a rough go at producing viable products. There is an inherent tension between provisioning resources for products vs addressing immediate billable service work. Pay the bills now, or invest in an uncertain future? Many who've commented on this tension seem to believe ... http://imulus.com/blog/george/concepts/imulus-product-tsar/ Users find websites for a variety of reasons. For the most part they are on your site to accomplish a goal. Maybe it is to find a product, learn something or download something. I can almost guarantee that they are not there to be confused and overwhelmed by information. I ... http://imulus.com/blog/scott/web-design/do-everything-accomplish-nothing/ Here at Imulus, we strongly believe in how important the wireframing process is for all of our projects. Recently we shifted our process in the wireframing stage to lessen the confusion with our clients. We decided not to present wireframes to the client. Wireframes are an essential step in the ... http://imulus.com/blog/aida/web-design/wireframes-are-for-designers/ We here at Imulus have spread our wings a bit and decided to get into the Rails game. I have had a crush on Ruby for a long time, causing me to jump on the Rails bandwagon when version 1.0 was in beta. I fell off the wagon ... http://imulus.com/blog/bryce/javascript/support-details-on-rails/ I recently read an article titled "What's Next in Web Design." The conclusion of the article states: "Better interaction design, less graphic design. Better user experience, less debates about taste. Faster technology, more reliable design standards." What I find interesting is I've been seeing the opposite in web trends. With the introduction ... http://imulus.com/blog/kathryn/web-design/whats-next-in-web-design-rebuttal/ Having used computers for almost 30 years, and as a designer of interfaces, I often wonder what's next. The mouse had been declared dead year ofter year, yet they continue to reign supreme. The recent videos from Microsoft have prompted a lot of discussion and there are often stories about ... http://imulus.com/blog/scott/opinion/the-future-of-computer-interactio/ As we continue to add support for more languages on our tech support management application, Support Details, one thing we've considered is how vanity URLs will impact the introduction of new features. In the short future we plan to add support for custom accounts, so it made sense to compile ... http://imulus.com/blog/casey/opinion/reserved-usernames-to-avoid-vanity-url-collision/ Winter is upon us, and like many folks in Colorado we're stoked to hit the mountains. Given the recent snowfall and our experimentation with HTML5 localStorage, it seemed natural to push it a bit further and do something fun. Enter Powder, an HTML5 webapp for tracking the snow conditions at your ... http://imulus.com/blog/casey/html5/powder-a-backbone-powered-ipad-webapp/ Last week we had a client call us with an interesting problem. They have a tradeshow kiosk they'd like to use to capture form data from users and collect it at the end of each day. The challenge: the kiosk doesn't have an internet connection and can't run a webserver. ... http://imulus.com/blog/casey/opinion/an-interesting-challenge/