The single overarching principle in any design project in any discipline is to "give the people what they want". See how German industrial designer Dieter Rams can influence the sites that we design.

If you engineered a bridge you wouldn't leave the guardrails off and hope nobody goes near the edges; engineering security for software is the same. But while valuable and important, security is a difficult thing for many clients (or potential clients) to analyze, and a fairly thankless task for an interactive company to do well.

I really like Dell servers.  They're well-engineered and sold at an unbeatable price point.  Custom-configured servers ship within a week of the order.  I don't cringe before calling their support line.  And perhaps most important, their hardware is based on industry standards, so if I need a CPU, RAM, or HD in a hurry I can run down the street and pick something up.

Until now.

On January 28, we stopped using sIFR to replace headings on the Clockwork site. Instead, we moved to Typekit. For you web type geeks out there, here are a few of the reasons why we changed as well as some comparisons between the typefaces.

The three words in the title above are well-understood but often misused. When it comes to business and the web specifically, there is a lot of confusion about these three little words and how they relate. Let me try to clear it up.

On Wednesday, Dries Buytaert announced that Drupal Gardens is now available in private beta. Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) built by and for the developer community. However, it is difficult to install, configure, and deploy for the average user—virtually every site requires a collection of third-party modules to provide all the functionality needed. Dries, Drupal’s founder, aims to change that by making Drupal’s functionality available as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

Clockwork is pleased to announce the creation of a research unit, along with the appointment of Michael Koppelman (currently CFO) to the new position of Chief Scientist.

All the nerds and geeks at Clockwork were so excited for the Apple announcement today that we all brought our lunches to the table and watched the event unfold together.