Entries from December 2007

Friday, December 21st, 2007

A Playground for Designers

Franki over at Life in a Venti Cup calls us a “playground for the designer in all of us.” I love that description for Designer Pages. There is something called funware, which was introduced to me by Gabe of rmbr, that tries to use games to get work done.
As much as possible, we […]

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Blinded by the Light

Imagine my delight when seeing my own name show up in our news feed today. For someone who rarely feels cool, I couldn’t help but feel like an absolute baller. Unfortunately, on this same great day, I had an appointment for an eye exam. The doctor dilated my pupils to check for pigmentation, and casually […]

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Fixed: Search Crashes

With all the traffic we’ve gotten today, it seems there was a small bug with some searches.  I’ll spare you the technical details, but it has been fixed.  Sorry if you were inconvenienced by this, but thanks for helping us track down a bug.

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

More Press Means More People

The great thing about the Designer Pages platform is that the more people on it, the better the site gets. It’s a bit technical, but suffice to say that the more people search and save and use products on the site, the more the site learns about these products. So if you search […]

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Let The Web Design Wars Begin!

There is a fun new site called CommandShift3 developed by Jelly. Even though Silicon Alley Insider likes to make fun of Jelly in the past, they admit CommandShiftF3 is cool. Basically, it’s a hot or not for websites.
30elm is beating us!
What? Well honestly, if we had to lose to one design community, I’d […]

Friday, December 14th, 2007

How This Crazy Thing Started

It feels like it was just a short time ago that I was sitting behind the reception desk at FXFOWLE Architects during the summer of 2006. My second day on the job, I was assigned to assist the Resource Director with updating the materials library database and cataloging system, a task, I assure you, I […]

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

30elm.com Launches with a Party

Last night I was fortunate enough to attend the guest-list only 30elm.com and DesignMyRoom.com launch party. Matt and I have been hanging out recently ever since meeting at the Product Design meetup. He’s a great guy and I think 30elm is a fantastic idea. Everyone at Designer Pages welcomes 30elm and DesignMyRoom to […]

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Sharing Products and News

As you may have noticed, we’ve got some news (fine, pun intended). Designer Pages had joined forces with one of our favorite architecture blogs, Archinect to deliver the latest headlines on architecture and design. This is a great opportunity for everyone, both designers and suppliers. Here’s why…
Designers, we know knowledge is power. […]

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Board Meeting @ The New York Times Headquarters

One of the benefits of working with great architects and engineers is the offices you get to see. Jake and I have been compiling lists of our favorite lobbies, elevator banks, and reception areas from all the world class offices we’ve been in lately. Today, we were blown away by the New York […]

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Let’s Communicate

In any relationship, communication is key. We here at Designer Pages feel like we’re in a relationship with our users, and want to start communicating just a little bit better. So we’ve relaunched our blog and plan to start updating it with announcements of new features, bug fixes, plans for the future, and other […]