We held our first webinar for a major customer yesterday. This webinar was designed for sales representatives around the country to understand best practices in the use of the Customer Portal we built. I wanted to share some of the highlights and lessons that we learned in putting together this webinar. This was the first time we've done a webinar — we have done many one-on-one web demos with conference calls to clients, however this was the first time we ventured into the realm of webinars. More...

After reading Smashing Magazine's article on "Lessons From Swiss Style Graphic Design" I started thinking about the principles they presented and how I incorporate them in my own work. I have always been a subscriber to the “less-is-more” state of mind when it comes to my work; however it is really easy to get bogged-down when trying to design user friendly interfaces for data-intensive applications. Here is what I took away from this article, and my ideas for incorporating their bullet-points into data driven applications. More...