What is the worst piece of design ever done?
Here are some examples of Really Bad Designs
The online whiteboard of Kristofer Palmvik
Here are some examples of Really Bad Designs
You can now search through Quora activity and watch the results update in realtime. Earlier today, Google seems to have slipped Quora into Google Realtime Search, along with Gowalla, Google Buzz, Plixi, Me2day, Twitgoo, and possibly others.
For example, at a personal finance startup I previously worked at, development servers were named after different types of currency. I also remember The New Yorker profile of Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that Facebook named conference rooms after bad ideas ("Subprime Mortgage" and "Beacon" stick out in my mind).
Which companies really got the importance of UX right from the start such that it was a key component of their success?
With terabytes of data flowing through our systems, generated from member’s profile, their connections and their activity on LinkedIn, we have amassed rich and structured data of one of the most influential, affluent and highly-educated audience on the web. This huge semi-structured data is getting updated in real-time and growing at a tremendous pace, we are all very excited about the data opportunity at LinkedIn.
Quora and Facebook both have strong, well-known engineering cultures. What makes a "good" engineering culture - free time to commit to projects, a commitment to open source, or is it the leadership being technical by trade?
If your people don’t think you care about them, are interested in them, you will be something they put up with instead of somebody they work with.
Cultivating gratitude in the workplace is probably one of the best thing you can do. If you are the founder, take the lead and thank your colleagues and co-worker for the hard work they have done. That little act of appreciation and recognition will go a long way.