Design Jobs
Temple University is looking for a Interactive Developer/Web Developer in Philadelphia, PA.

Arc Worldwide | Leo Burnett is looking for a Senior Content Strategist in Chicago, IL.

Creative B’stro is looking for a Information Architect in San Francisco, CA.

Lime Wire LLC is looking for a User Experience Designer in New York, NY.

Afar Media is looking for a UI Designer in San Francisco, CA.

Linkstorm is looking for a Senior Interactive Designer in New York, NY.

Garmin International is looking for a Software User Interface Designer in Olathe, KS.

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Programming Jobs
Braintree Payment Solutions is looking for a Software Developer in Chicago, IL.

Fluid, Inc. is looking for a Lead Web Developer in San Francisco, CA.

Yelp, Inc. is looking for a Front End Engineer in San Francisco, CA.

Threespot Media is looking for a Software Engineer in Washington, DC.

Groupon is looking for a Rails Developer in Chicago, IL.

Animoto Productions is looking for a Program Manager in New York, NY.

Showpopr.com is looking for a Rails Web Developer in New York, NY (or remote).

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More jobs
View all of the jobs at the 37signals Job Board. (The Job Board now has internships too.)

Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:

Highrise
FormSpring: Capture new contacts & leads in Highrise with a web form on your company site
Highrise contact management just got easier with FormSpring web forms. Customer information collected with a FormSpring web form moves automatically into your Highrise contact database.

Backpack
Logbook: Post Backpack Journal updates in seconds without ever opening your browser
Logbook lets you post your status and log your work on your Backpack Journal right from your Mac.

Steve Rubel discusses workstreaming with the Backpack Journal
“One of their recent additions is the Backpack Journal, which I love. I can update it throughout the day to capture a running log of what I worked on, when. Right now this is just for my own use but Backpack works great in teams as well. Above is a screenshot from my Journal this am. I also update it from my iPhone using an app called Satchel and on the desktop use text expansion software to enter items more quickly. I use codes and phrases to track my time which I refer to when I enter my time reports.”

“Backpack is a great way to keep all your wedding planning in one place”
“Backpack is a great way to keep all your wedding planning in one place, accessible from anywhere there’s an Internet connection.”

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Click the links below to learn more about these improvements:

1) New in Basecamp: Enhanced private messages, to-do lists, and files
Now it is more clear when you’ve made an item private and easier than ever to see who can view it. We know private items are important so it’s vital that you get clear visual feedback when you mark something “private”. When creating a message, a to-do list, or uploading a file, clicking the private checkbox will highlight the entire message form like this:

2) New in Basecamp: View all attached images at once, faster zooming previews
We just made it faster and easier to review all the images attached to a message or comment in Basecamp. Now you’ll see a link called “View all of these images at once” below the image thumbnails when more than one image is attached. Click the link to open a new window with all the images inside at full size.

3) Good citizen update: Now all Basecamp plans include SSL security
We rolled out an update that may not make short-term financial sense for us, but it’s the right thing to do. Now all Basecamp plans — including the free plan — include SSL secure encryption (what’s SSL?). Prior to this update only Plus-and-higher plans included SSL.

4) New in Highrise: Faster contact info with the Quickcard in the sidebar
Now when you view a company you’ll see a little contact icon beside each person in the sidebar under “People in this company.” Hover over the icon to display a Quickcard with that person’s contact info. The Quickcard is a really fast way to check someone’s contact information. We also added this feature to Cases and Deals, so you can easily see contact info for people involved with a Case or Deal.

5) New in Highrise: Improved tags list
The new design groups your tags by letter of the alphabet. The list is broken into groups so you can scan it more easily and find the tag you need more quickly. Here is a look at the redesigned tags list:

An interview with Ryan: Ryan Singer on UI design, Frontend Development, Project Management and Inspiration (ThinkVitamin.com).

As a designer, do you need to understand frontend development?

The more you understand about frontend development, the better designer you’ll be. If you are really familiar with handcoding and you understand basic HTML markup and you know how CSS selectors work then you’re really well prepared, for example, to use the fact that jQuery and Prototype both have a way to refer to pieces of your mark-up using CSS selectors even though your not using CSS.

If you’re designing web app user interfaces, then I think it’s important to get into understanding how an MVC framework works like Rails or Django. If you can understand how your templates fit in to the view, as the “V” in MVC then that’s a huge leap. You can really start doing work with programmers and you can have ideas and you can make them into reality instead of just making designs and handing them off to somebody and hoping that someone else can plug them in.

Read the full interview.

Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:

Basecamp
New File Uploading features in Basecamp
We’re excited to announce a batch of improvements to File Uploads in Basecamp. Now it’s easier to attach multiple files at once, we’ve improved our progress bar to show you as each file is uploaded, and you can click thumbnails to zoom image attachments without leaving the current page. These new features make it faster and easier to attach, review and discuss files in Basecamp. Here’s a demo video to show you all the improvements.

New Basecamp feature: The Daily Digest
We’re excited to announce a great improvement to Basecamp. The new Daily Digest feature makes it easier than ever to track the progress of your projects. The Daily Digest is an email that Basecamp sends you once a day. The email tells you about any to-do items or milestones that were checked off or added in the last day. Daily Digests are per-project, so you can subscribe to the projects you really care about without being distracted by any unnecessary information. Now you’ll always know day-by-day as work is completed or new work is assigned. It’s a really powerful feature.

Timy: “An easy-to-use desktop application to fill out your Basecamp timesheet”
Timy is “an easy-to-use desktop application to fill out your Basecamp timesheet.”

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Here’s a sampling of available Design and Programming jobs.

iPhone Developer Jobs

Big in Japan, Inc. is looking for an iPhone Developer in Dallas, TX.
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Design Jobs

Apple is looking for a Creative Director, Information Architecture in Cupertino, CA.
Rocket Matter, LLC is looking for a User Interface Designer / IA in Boca Raton, FL.
Harvest is looking for a Visual Designer in New York, NY.
Trek Bicycle is looking for a Visual Designer-Web in Waterloo, WI.
Southern Poverty Law Center is looking for a User Interface Designer/Developer in Montgomery, AL.
Engine Yard is looking for a Senior Interaction Designer in San Francisco, CA.
View all Design Job listings

Programming Jobs

Wall Street On Demand is looking for a Web Developer in Boulder, CO.
Kickball is looking for a Product Engineer in Palo Alto, CA.
Modernista! is looking for a CRM Supervisor in Boston, MA.
Cramer Production Business Trust is looking for a Technology Manager in Norwood, MA.
TutorSource is looking for a Software Developer (Ruby on Rails/OO/web) in Santa Monica, CA.
CivicPlus is looking for a .NET Software Developer in Topeka, KS.
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Are you hiring?

The 37signals Job Board attracts the cream of the crop because it’s featured prominently on five industry-leading sites: Signal vs. Noise, A List Apart, Kottke.org, Coudal.com, and the Ruby on Rails site. And not just anyone reads these sites. The people who build the best of the web read these sites. People who value beautiful design, beautiful code, high standards, and doing great work. The kind of people you want to hire. Post a job (or internship) and find the right person today.

Christopher Alexander on the beauty and sense of wholeness that comes from the irregular construction of buildings such as La Casa de los Azulejos in Mexico City. From his 1991 essay “The Perfection of Imperfection,” as cited by Richard Gabriel in Patterns of Software (1.2 MB PDF).

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