Jamin Hegeman

Category: Web

  • Working as the Crowd Cheers

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    It’s easy to keep working into the night if you have a soccer match with the constant cheers of the crowd in the background. It also helps if the match is a replay of a game (US vs. Czech Republic) that you would rather not focus on too much so that it’s not visually distracting.

  • Why Use Wireframes?

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    I was reading The Guided Wireframe Narrative for Rich Internet Applications Case Study: Prototyping Complex Interactions by Andres Zapata on Boxes and Arrows and within the text was this question: Why continue using wireframes? At all? Sometimes my coworkers and I struggle with this same question. Since I often find myself arguing in defense of…

  • Got Mint?

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    I finally ponied over the $30 for Shaun Inman’s web site statistics software, Mint. I talked to Shaun at SXSW. He’s a really nice guy, who also happens to be an excellent designer and programmer. I have been inspired by his code and design more than once. And Mint does not disappoint in the least.…

  • Drupal CMS Switchover

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    A while back I wrote about my first weekend with Drupal, which after exploring other content management systems and a little bit of soul searching, I decided to use for the International Transplant Nurses Society site. While I had already built the site according to a Dreamweaver/Contribute model with custom PHP/MySQL functionality for certain features,…

  • How Old Am I?

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    I had dinner recently with several woman from ITNS – “the nurses,” as one friend coined them. It was the first time I had met most of them. The woman I had met with previously thought I was 24. I was flattered, of course. Another woman, whom I email a lot about updates, thought that…

  • High on Amsterdam

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    I have been told I brought the nice weather from Barcelona here to Amsterdam. Yesterday, I think it was actually nicer than Barcelona. Amsterdam is a very stimulating city, on many levels. I have an excellent personal tour guide who has shown me a good deal of the city and all of its novelty in…

  • Blogging From Barcelona

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    This is day five of my stay in Barcelona. I haven’t accessed the Internet or for three days. That’s quite a record for me. Naturally, the day I left one of my clients decided a feature needed to be available immediately. Six hours ahead, and with some help from support back home, a compromise was…

  • Blogger’s Block Strikes Another

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    Blogger’s block seems to be abound these days. It’s strange how patterns form. Earlier today I read A Realistic Chat About Design Process and wanted to say that part of what Keith Robinson (of Blue Flavor) says there is the post I attempted to write last night, but was too tired. But when going back…

  • Finding Time

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    A lot of people I know (or maybe everyone I know) complains about not having enough time for whatever it is people think they need time to do. I sometimes fall into this category, and even wrote a post about how I use the hour of 11 p.m. and midnight for personal web projects, because…