As of today, we're changing the name of our company from Argument from Design to Ardes .
Why are we doing this?
There are many reasons for the change. Let's go through them:
The URL for the company's website has been ardes.com for virtually its entire history;
Ardes has always been our shorthand name for the company;
You'd be surprised how few people know how to spell "argument";
The connection between the philosophical concept of the "argument …
- Topics: Argument
Improve Your Design by Surveying Your Work
If you walk around a theme park or a mall, chances are someone holding a clipboard is going to stop you and ask you a couple questions. These questions will undoubtedly range from asking how your trip to the park is to asking how many sodas you purchased throughout the day for your family.
These questions, among others, let the surveyor tell a story about the park's guests. This lets them decide where to focus improvements with their guests' …
…or the training on the Expo . We want to educate and help others to use Design, with a capital "D", to make that world a reality. And as gratifying it is to read tweets like this one, it's also wonderful to see others striving to do the same thing. Which is why we're happy to announce that the awesome folks over at Moovweb are sponsoring our educational and training content.
Remix the Web
Moovweb, a software platform that transforms desktop …
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…§ Hilaruous tongue in cheek, Announcing the Flat Design Conference :
Come see famous designers speak on topics such as:
Rounded Corners: Are They Flat Enough?
10 Photoshop Tips For Not Using Shadows
You may want to skip this conference and just go ahead and use Flat UI Free .
§ The GitHub Generation: Why We're All in Open Source Now .
§ Brian McKenna :
" OO mocking" means something else to functional …
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In Algorithm Design for Performance Aware VM Consolidation we learn some shocking facts (gambling in Casablanca?):
Average server utilization in many data centers is low, estimated between 5% and 15%. This is wasteful because an idle server often consumes more than 50% of peak power.
Surely that's just for old style datacenters? Nope. In Google data centers, workloads that are consolidated use only 50% of the processor cores. Every other processor core is left unused simply to ensure that performance does not degrade.
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- No phenomena: SymAPI: API for APIs
- Patrick Lenz: LIMBO
- Giles Bowkett: Internet Marketing + Time Management Discount
…YES it is . And the score: MongoDB Is Still Broken by Design 5-0 .
Every insurgency must recruit from an existing population which is already affiliated elsewhere. For web properties the easiest group to recruit is the younger demographic. They naturally want something different than their elders and they have fewer allegiances to defend. What's your counter insurgency strategy?
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…Twelve South HiRise to classics such as the Rain Design mStand and the Griffin Elevator .
As it turns out, I'm no longer using a stand to lift up my portable Apple computer today. And a recent episode of Gabe's Generational made me rethink my original article into what you have in front of you right now.
But let me back up for a moment.
My Current Desk Setup
A Disclaimer
What you will read in the paragraphs to follow is a personal …
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Luckily, Hyperink Was In Charge Of Design, Not Me
If you've followed my blog or products for a while, you're probably aware that I have the design sense of an addlebrained squirrel who fell into the Christmas eggnog and drowned. Luckily, Hyperink took care of the book design and typesetting, so that it looks better on your e-reader or screen than anything I would have natively produced. Here's a sample (click to enlarge):
Formats Available
Amazon Kindle ( direct …
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…to learn visual design or how to improve your current design skills? Our very own Mig Reyes is teaching the Visual Design class .
Applications for The Starter League Winter session are due by Sunday. If you're on the fence, hop off and apply. You will not regret it.
(Disclosure: 37signals is a minority investor in The Starter League)
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The Insufficiency of Good Design by Sarah Mei
A practical exploration of team dynamics, communication, code quality, and problem solving. [ slides ]
Simulating the World with Ruby by Bryan Liles
The real world has millions of "objects" interacting in seemingly random ways. How would we go about modeling this in Ruby? Bryan demonstrated how and threw in a healthy dose of statistics for good measure. [ slides ]
Attending RubyConf…
- Ruby Inside: This Week in Ruby: Rubinius 2.0-rc1, Rake 10, Refactoring video, Passenger 4.0 supports JRuby, and more
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Episode 24: Not so DRY that it chafes
- Segment7: Ten Years of Seattle.rb
- New Relic: Recap of RubyConf 2012
- omgbloglol: On Railcar: an isolated Rails environment
- Global Nerdy: Mobile Developer News Roundup for Friday, May 25, 2012