On Tuesday I listened remotely (love the VPN) to Intuit’s Social Ecosystem Summit. There, Caterina Fake gave an informal talk about both Flickr (of which she is a founder) and her new venture Hunch. I brought up hunch.com as I listened and was quickly hooked. As Fake explains, they use a model inspired by the [...]
Author Archives: Rob Keohane
QuickBase Dashboards
In December 2008 the My QuickBase page served mainly as a hub for accessing applications. Many users were looking to view specific reports from across multiple applications. For the February 2009 release we added a customizable tab to the My QuickBase page. The tab consists of four regions that allow the flexible layout of up [...]
Why am I on the 5th Floor?
The importance of muscle memory in user interface design resurfaced recently on an elevator ride to the 5th floor in our Waltham, MA building. I work on the 6th floor and our building is going through a “modernization” phase (an ironic term given how long it is taking). Part of the work involved the elevators, [...]
Intuit QuickBase Application Header
A sketch for the navigation and custom branding of a QuickBase application.
Outlook 2007 – Meeting request form
An idea for making it easier to schedule a meeting with multiple participants. Schedules are overlapped on a single calendar producing a map of available time. The denser the area, the less available the participants are as a group. Lighter areas indicate common availability.