Josh Orum

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Smart programming results in “dumb” programs.

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

Two of Loud Dog’s guiding principles are a focus on developing long-term strategic relationships with our clients and a focus on design and technology as business solutions. How is this reflected in our coding practices?
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Usability is a subset of user experience.

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Jodi mentioned to me earlier today that although our marketing material is focused on usability, our real focus was not so narrow–or so expert. We have a wide range of skills in the office, and I’m the only one that’s ever focused on usability per se, and even I haven’t done that much in terms of advanced research.
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Create highly targeted apps

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

The pharmaceutical industry (led by Novartis) has started developing highly specific drugs for rare diseases. They can afford it because testing is easier and they can get them to market faster. Then, they can start looking at larger applications. We should apply this to our own app development.
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Protected: Realistic-looking wireframes improve effectiveness.

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

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Upgrades don’t have to be big!

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

I wish some software maker (and this includes web apps) would come out with an upgrade that made their application smaller, less feature-rich and more stable. The new iTunes has some really sweet functionality (I love browsing albums now), but I can’t upgrade it on my home media center because it’s also a resource hog.
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