Here it is, fresh from the metal fab shop. Doesn’t it look pretty? We’re making a couple tweaks here and there, but overall, I’m really happy with it. And it ships flat, IKEA-style. The first batch are destined for Shipshewana, Indiana, where they’ll collect visitor surveys from the 10′s of thousands of visitors that go [...]
Here’s a screenshot of an IM conversation I had with Missy, one of the employees at BetterWorld Books’ retail store in Goshen, discussing their RedPost/Sign which we just recently moved to a more visible location right by the cash register: Missy’s been working on making new, simple posters to attract attention to their new bargain [...]
RedPost is now starting to sell LCD mounts designed and manufactured locally by MOR/ryde (check out their product line here), who builds several components we use, including our custom-designed Sign/Post. These are great mounts — rock solid, high quality, much better than a lot of the cheap crap coming out of China nowadays. Here’s a [...]
Email signatures really have got out of hand. They started out as a nifty feature way back in the 90s where you could predefine signatures for your email messages so you wouldn’t have to copy and paste something standard every time you wrote an email. But they’re really out of hand. They’ve gotten so long, [...]
At last, it’s happening. This is all over the Internet today, a message from Google to the world: In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. [...]
Over the weekend, I noticed Facebook has this handy feature where you can tell them what you think of ads by clicking the little X next to the ad. I really like this feature: But if you don’t like all ads…do they stop serving you ads?
I recently finished a book about called Bucky Works which is a fascinating introduction into the life and ideas of Buckminster Fuller, who was roughly 100 years ahead of his time. Ideas about sustainability, design and approach that apply to pretty much any industry and technology — and are just now gaining traction. Here’s the [...]
Last night, I was chatting with Marshall over a Fat Tire (draft!) at our local watering hole and Marshall told me something that I had told him a year or so ago about media in general — I said something to the effect of “If it has an ad on it, I won’t look at [...]
I haven’t ranted in awhile, so here goes. Over the last two weeks, in my travels to Chicago, NYC and Pennsylvania and in-between I pondered where RedPost has been and where we’re headed. The biggest problem that we will solve is that of content-value, but I’ll get to that. I received this postcard in the [...]
Another tenent of web service design is ease of use. A lot of the industry borrows heavily from Apple’s design lead; many of the user interface elements and other graphical elements hark back to things Apple came up with sometime in the past 15 years. Ex: glowing bubbles are about 10 years old, from the [...]
