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Garrett Dimon

Dallas, TX
32.778156, -96.795403
www.garrettdimon.com

About: Garrett Dimon is an web entrepreneur based out of Dallas, TX. He’s on a mission to make the Web a better place, and he believes that a holistic approach to design and development is the key. He 's currently in the process of creating a small startup focused around building hosted web applications for small business.

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Interests UX Design, Rails, Hosted Web Apps, Basketball
What topics are on your radar rails, design
What topics are you an expert in design, information architecture, usability

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Gorilla Usability Testing

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So, what exactly is Silverback? It’s “spontaneous, unobtrusive usability testing software for website designers.” It gracefu...

“Gorilla” Usability Testing

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So, what exactly is Silverback? It’s “spontaneous, unobtrusive usability testing software for website designers.” It gracefu...

Getting Satisfaction

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It’s not forum software. It’s better. It’s designed from the ground up to be more inviting and less technical than what we tradit...

Getting Satisfaction

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It’s not forum software. It’s better. It’s designed from the ground up to be more inviting and less technical than what we tradit...

Housecleaning

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Things have slowed down here a bit as I’ve shifted from designing Sifter to actually building it. As I’ve started posting all of the i...

Housecleaning

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Things have slowed down here a bit as I’ve shifted from designing Sifter to actually building it. As I’ve started posting all of the i...

A Profoundly Simple Widget

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When it comes to Widgets, I’m a fairly pragmatic guy. I’ve tried adding a bunch of whimsical little widgets like a hula girl, sports sc...

A Profoundly Simple Widget

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When it comes to Widgets, I’m a fairly pragmatic guy. I’ve tried adding a bunch of whimsical little widgets like a hula girl, sports sc...

Use the Ideas, but Make it Your Own

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I have a problem when people steal visual design. Visual design is somebody’s signature, and copying it is akin to forging their professiona...

Use the Ideas, but Make it Your Own

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I have a problem when people steal visual design. Visual design is somebody’s signature, and copying it is akin to forging their professiona...

Issue Tracker Chat

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I think one of the best things about being the designer, developer, and business owner for an hosted web app is that it shortens the distance betwe...

Issue Tracker Chat

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I think one of the best things about being the designer, developer, and business owner for an hosted web app is that it shortens the distance betwe...

Issue Tracker Chat

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I think one of the best things about being the designer, developer, and business owner for an hosted web app is that it shortens the distance betwe...

Issue Tracker Chat

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I think one of the best things about being the designer, developer, and business owner for an hosted web app is that it shortens the distance betwe...

Time Machine Misery

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Yesterday morning and early afternoon, I was chugging happily along. I did some work on the issue tracker in Textmate, jotted some notes in Yojimb...

Time Machine Misery

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Yesterday morning and early afternoon, I was chugging happily along. I did some work on the issue tracker in Textmate, jotted some notes in Yojimb...

Connecting Information

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I’ve been using Basecamp more and more for the new company, and milestones are the one area that I’ve always struggled with in terms of...

Connecting Information

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I’ve been using Basecamp more and more for the new company, and milestones are the one area that I’ve always struggled with in terms of...

The Next Update

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We’re launching our new company and site today. Everyone, meet Next Update. Next Update, meet everyone. We’re still working on a n...

The Next Update

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We’re launching our new company and site today. Everyone, meet Next Update. Next Update, meet everyone. We’re still working on a n...

Vision and Purpose

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The vision and purpose for an application, or even an organization for that matter, are the standing marching orders. When someone makes a decisio...

Vision and Purpose

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The vision and purpose for an application, or even an organization for that matter, are the standing marching orders. When someone makes a decisio...

Email Standards Project

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While I personally don’t do much with HTML email, I have in the past, and it’s a painfully laborious process. The email standards pr...

Acquired Again

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Several months ago I started sharing my vision of a bug and issue tracker that I had been working on and hoped to eventually offer up as open-s...

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