Blogature

While staring at http://www.microsoftshitbrick.com (a site not for work or for the turd-phobic), Jon said (of the Zune): “why do people still think imitating Apple will make them successful too? It’s like a design cargo cult.”
Quite so.
Apple has been an incredibly strong force in popularizing design in consumer electronics and beyond, starting with the original […]

Setting up handlers that run after an event has fired is a tricky thing to do in JavaScript. Suppose you’re trying to work with text as it’s being entered by a user. As a silly example, suppose you wanted to have a <div> mirror the contents of a <textarea>. You might try […]

Jon and I were answering some interview questions for an email interview we’re doing with the folks over at VoodooVentures a few days ago. One of their questions was about how we defined Web 2.0 and whether we thought we were a Web 2.0 application. The idea of Web 2.0 has bugged us for a […]

Here’s a conversation Jon and I have a lot: What is the incremental cost to the usability of our application if we add a specific new feature?
We think this is a critically important question when designing an interface. Thinkature is intentionally a really simply application. We offer fewer features than some of our competitors. Strategy, […]

We’re currently a two person operation, so we’re looking for someone (in the Boston area) who wants to get involved at the start of something we believe will be really great. This is an almost-founder like position, so it’s critical that you’re really excited about web applications, collaboration, and being involved in decisions about every […]

Very large JavaScript applications like Thinkature are not yet very common (or at least not as common as their smaller AJAX cousins). As a result, the body of literature on designing, debugging, and optimizing those applications is small, although it is growing.
As we got ready to launch Thinkature, we noticed that loading complicated workspaces […]

Now that we’re a few days into the public life of Thinkature, we’ve noticed some interesting patterns in how Thinkature is spreading that we wanted to share. Specifically, I’d like to compare the role that Reddit and del.icio.us have played in our success so far.
When we first released Thinkature, Jon and I ceremoniously bookmarked our […]

Welcome to the Thinkature blog!
As I’m sure you’ve noticed, we’re launching today, and there were a few things Jon and I wanted to mention. First of all, we’d like to thank our beta users. We’ve had a bunch of our friends, family, and other people testing for the past few months and they’ve been […]