Design Jobs

Obama for America is looking for a Web Designer/Developer in Chicago, IL.

Apple Inc. is looking for a UI Engineer in Cupertino, CA.

Best Buy Co., Inc. is looking for a Front End Web Developer in Richfield, MN.

Crain Communications is looking for an Interactive Designer in New York, NY.

Zillow.com is looking for a UX Designer in Seattle, WA.

TripAdvisor is looking for Web Developer in Boston, MA.

Flirtomatic is looking for a Interaction designer/architect in Soho, London.

HUGE is looking for a Art Director in Brooklyn, NY.

Business.com is looking for an Web Designer in Santa Monica, CA.

Check out all the Design Jobs currently available on the Job Board.

Programming/Tech Jobs

Brandissimo is looking for a Senior Web Developer / Internet Jedi in Los Angeles.

Teehan+Lax is looking for a Senior Front-End Developer in Toronto, Canada.

Janus Health, Inc. is looking for a Web Developer Extraordinaire in San Diego, CA.

Serious Business is looking for a Rails Engineer located in San Francisco, CA.

OHSU is looking for a Web Applications Developer in Portland, Oregon.

Leapfrog Online is looking for a Ruby/Rails Software Engineer in Evanston, IL.

Rockstar Games is looking for a Web Developer in New York.

Auditude is looking for a Front-end Web Engineer in Palo Alto, CA.

Polar News Company is looking for a Front-end Developer in Soho, New York City.

Check out all the Programming Jobs currently available on the Job Board.

More jobs!

The Job Board is flush with great programmer and designer jobs all over the country (and the world). The Gig Board is the place to find contract jobs.

Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:

37signals suite
Zendesk integrates with Highrise and Campfire
“You can now lookup customer information in your Highrise CRM application directly from a Zendesk support ticket. Say you receive a support ticket from a Michael Johnson. This may be the first time Michael has contacted your help desk, but if he is a customer of yours you probably have some information on him in your CRM system already. With this new integration you can populate the ticket page with that information.”

Branding agency uses 37signals tools to stay small and stay connected
“The benefits are that they allow us to manage our clients and their work, and our time and our ‘stuff’ more efficiently, and quicker, and easier. They essentially allow us to get on with what we are paid to do, help solve our clients problems with minimal problems…We have found that by spending less time and effort managing our business, we can spend more time and effort helping our clients to run their businesses.”

Campfire
Neat Campfire tricks: Graph your usage and autocomplete names
“Probably my favorite, undocumented feature, of Campfire is using the @ in chat to auto-complete someones name. It is something I have found myself using in other chats besides Campfire, just to find that it does not complete their name for me!”

Basecamp
Periscope: Basecamp control on your iGoogle homepage
Periscope (stil in beta) provides “Basecamp control on your iGoogle homepage.” The extra is made by Ten Seven, Interactive.

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Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:

Basecamp
Keeping track of miles with Basecamp time tracking
“What we are doing now is using a project folder called mileage log and instead of recording time, we record miles. As a manager, it is easier for me to generate reports per person and date range and attach those to the accounting department for reimbursement purposes.”

Basecamp helps barn converters
“For me, the cornerstone of project management isn’t a gantt chart or a risk register, but lists. In Basecamp, I find the ability to create and maintain all the lists that I need to keep track of my barn conversion. It also provides you with the ability to share files, text, and messages and track time & tasks with other members of a project team. The emphasis is on project collaboration and communication.”

Backpack
Two examples of using Backpack to plan a wedding
“Our wedding was an informal affair at a beach-side kiosk location in South Australia. To co-ordinate people involved in the event, friends and family mostly, we used this Backpack public page. It worked wonderfully well and the day was a huge success.”

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Avoid the middle of the road
“As a company, you have to be the most of something—the most exclusive, the most affordable, the most responsive, the most friendly. Companies used to want to be in the middle of the road — that’s where all the customers were. But now, in an age of hyper-competition and non-stop innovation, the middle of the road is the road to ruin. What do they say in Texas? ‘The only thing in the middle of the road are yellow lines and dead armadillos.’”
-Bill Taylor, author of Mavericks at Work

Put your business model in beta
“So my advice to startups in this particular category is if you’re going to put your product in beta — put your business model in beta with it. Far too often we are too product focused and not business-model focused. That’s one thing I definitely would have done differently with JotSpot.”
-Joe Kraus, CEO of JotSpot

Work in small bits
“When dealing with git, it’s best to work in small bits. Rule of thumb: if you can’t summarise it in a sentence, you’ve gone too long without committing.”
-Git for the lazy

The schizo thing about software development
“Here’s the schizo thing about software development (at least on Macs): 1. Everybody praises apps that don’t have a ton of preferences and features. 2. Everybody asks for some new preferences and features. (Okay, not everybody. Not you, I know. I mean everybody else.) To make it worse: 1. Everybody thinks they’re representative of the typical user, so what they want ought to be a no-brainer. 2. And they act like you put skunks in their fridge if you don’t do whatever-it-is. (Okay, again — not you. You’re cool. I’m talking about the others.) The problem is 100 times worse when it comes to deleting features.”
-Brent Simmons of NetNewsWire

Major in learning
“It’s easy to educate for the routine, and hard to educate for the novel. Keep in mind that many required skills will change: developers today code in something called Python, but when I was in school C was all the rage. The need for reasoning, though, remains constant, so we believe in taking the most challenging courses in core disciplines: math, sciences, humanities.” Google’s advice to students

Learn from mistakes
“If all you ever do is all you’ve ever done, then all you’ll ever get is all you ever got.”
-An old saying in Texas

Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:

Highrise
[Case Study] Interior design firm: “I cannot tell you how much Highrise is helping me work”
“I create a case for each mini-project or design project. Then I assign the contacts I usually require for that type of case and begin assigning tasks. I like using the next week or later choice when I don’t have an exact date for completion. Each day I focus on my due tasks or overdue to clear them or re-assign them.”

Backpack
“37signal’s Backpack Journal is a great illustration of the Twitter principle, as applied to business”
“A lot of people don’t get Twitter. A lot. They ask me why I love it, use it, and why I tweet so much. I think it’s one of those things that you have to do in earnest in order to appreciate, but I think this screenshot of 37signal’s Backpack Journal is a great illustration of the Twitter principle, as applied to business. What if you could see what everyone was doing, without having to ask? Exactly.”

“Backpack is awesome for wedding planning”
Jessica Merritt offers up “Wedding Planning on the Web: 100 Tools and Resources for Brides to Be.” Backpack is on the list and it’s described as “awesome for wedding planning.”

How one team sends SVN commit emails to a Backpack page
“I realized that I could make it a bit easier for my client to read when we make a change, and what we changed. We use SVN and so I just forwarded my SVN Commit emails to a Backpack page, which my client could then subscribe to the RSS feed of that page.”

Basecamp
New in Basecamp: Email replies can now include file attachments
Now you can attach files to your replies and have those files attached to your comment. So, for example, if you are commenting on a message about a logo redesign, and you have a new design to share, you can just include that new design with your email reply. The file will be posted to the project and attached to your comment. Plus, if the file attachment is an image (gif, jpg, or png) a thumbnail of the image will be posted to the project as well.

Getting Real
Entrepreneur says Getting Real provided guide for translating ideas and passion into a succesful web app
“The Getting Real ethos of keeping things simple and uncluttered has been invaluable…We have a small team, few meetings, and relatively few features. Our limited resources force us to be creative — yet we are starting to garner positive reviews on some of the most popular blogs on the web. I’m also enjoying myself immensely, and am happy to have found another avenue for helping students succeed.”

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Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:

Highrise
Why The Demo Coach switched from Salesforce to Highrise
“To my surprise, Highrise turned out to be an amazing SAAS, which allows us to have basically the same functionality as Salesforce. The biggest differences to me is that the user interface is much more enjoyable to work with and the cost is a fraction of what I am used to paying for CRM.”

Basecamp
Coming soon: Outpost will let you manage Basecamp projects on your iPhone
Outpost (coming in August 2008 from Morfunk) promises to let you manage your Basecamp projects on your iPhone: “Take notes away from the office. Delegate tasks from the train. Check on deadlines. Upload photos to projects. Anywhere.”

Entrepreneur/Author at CNNMoney.com: “Basecamp brought a ‘best practices’ rigor to my business”
“Basecamp brought a ‘best practices’ rigor to my business. It gave us a common nomenclature for projects and allowed us to organize our content workflow into headings like Overview, Messages, To-Do’s, Milestones and more, tied to each project.”

Backpack
Blue Flavor thinks the Backpack Journal is “fan-frickin-tastic”
“About a month ago I read about Backpack’s new Journal feature. It seemed very interesting and after about a week of playing with it, I decided to get the rest of the team to try it out. Now we’ve got an amazing status tool (ala Twitter) AND an ongoing record of what everyone has an is working on. I find this really useful in planning my resources and projects. It’s also got all sorts of side benefits; keeping the team in touch in a low-noise way, reducing distraction by allowing people to announce that they’re busy. ‘Hey don’t bug me! I’m heads-down!!’”

Getting Real
vi.sualize.us creator on Getting Real and building an app in his spare time with no budget
“I developed the site in five months using only my spare time (nights, holidays…) and $0 budget…I started to read it and after a few chapters I couldn’t believe how lucky I was: a lot of the questions I was doing myself during the development, could finally have answers, or at least guidance! Your book came in at the right moment, completely out of the blue.”

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Fashion label Madewell has a really cool site.

90% of it is photos of the products and each piece in the collection has a video showing a person moving in it. Overall it’s a beautiful example of minimal nav and total focus on the content.

Also, Flash is used in a refined way. There’s a lot of hovers and interactivity, but it’s not too much. Just enough to make things interesting.

And the deeper you dig, the more neat stuff you’ll find: This scrapbook-style nav is fun and this calendar is really fresh too. Kudos Madewell!

[FYI: J. Crew launched Madewell as “a hipper, little sister” of the brand.]

Some iPhone apps we’ve been discussing in our Campfire chat room:

Mobile AIM lets you chat via your phone.

TypePad for iPhone lets you blog directly from your iPhone.

PayPal lets you check your PayPal balance, send money or request payment.

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Programming/Tech Jobs

Shopify is looking for a Senior System Administrator in Ottawa, Canada (or telecommute from anywhere).

CloudRaker is looking for a Web developer in Montreal, Canada.

LinkedIn is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer in Mountain View, CA.

Naughty America is looking for a Rails developer in San Diego, CA.

Janus Health, Inc. is looking for a Quality Assurance Cowboy in San Diego, CA.

Airlock is looking for a Creative developer in London, UK.

Goldstar is looking for a Rails Developer With RJS, AJAX focus in Pasadena, CA (or telecommute from anywhere).

Gx5 is looking for a Support/QA Guru located anywhere.

Houseparty is looking for a Junior Web Developer located anywhere.

Auburn Quad, Inc. is looking for a Web Engineer in Cambridge, MA.

Check out all the Programming Jobs currently available on the Job Board.

Design Jobs

Digital Publishing Startup is looking for a Creative Director in Los Angeles, CA (Venice).

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

The Open Planning Project is looking for a Standards-aware Web Designer in New York, NY.

Usable Security Systems is looking for a Lead Front-End Developer / Web Developer in San Francisco, CA (near South Park).

New York University is looking for a Web Administrator in New York, NY.

DailyStrength is looking for a Senior Designer in Santa Cruz, CA.

The University of Iowa is looking for a Web Designer in Iowa City, IA.

Fork Unstable Media GmbH is looking for a Senior Web Designer in Hamburg, Germany.

Lockheed Martin is looking for an Information Architect/User Experience Specialist (IA/UX) in Rockville, MD.

Check out all the Design Jobs currently available on the Job Board.

More jobs!

The Job Board is flush with great programmer and designer jobs all over the country (and the world). The Gig Board is the place to find contract jobs.

Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:

Basecamp
ProofHQ and Basecamp: Offer your project team richer review and approval tools
“ProofHQ integration with Basecamp” explains how to add ProofHQ proofs to your Basecamp projects. (ProofHQ is a web-based design collaboration, proofing and approval tool for brands, agencies, designers, print and production.)

Backpack
One of our favorite uses for Backpack: “How to” pages
One way we love to use Backpack is for “how to” pages that guide us through confusing tech waters. These tutorial pages mean we don’t have to waste time relearning processes from scratch.

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