Clockwork is feeling the love lately! We've gotten some cool recognition from around the web.

Testing interactive design is one of the most difficult and challenging assignments for a Quality Assurance team.  Interactive is a mashup of beautiful design, user experience layouts, carefully constructed semantic markup, clear and powerful client content, branding, relationships with other websites and (usually) a solid amount of custom back-end programming and database design.  Part of my role at Clockwork is building testcases and testplans, which both capture the subtleties that define a great user experience (and a successful website launch) and ensure we can reliably repeat that success for all clients.  This series of posts gives you a glimpse at some of the things that a solid test plan must address. Many of these are things people never remember to ask for, but require careful consideration.

For the last few years Clockwork has participated in the Twin Cities Bike Walk Week, and this year finished in the top 10 in the Workplace Team Category! Wahoo!

For the benefit of anyone who hasn't heard of it, foursquare is a GPS-aware smartphone application that allows you to "check-in" pretty much wherever you go. It's a social network, and you have friends who (if you want to, and they want to) can be notified whenever you check-in anywhere (and vice versa, of course). Additionally, there's a game element to it. The more places you check-in, the more points you get, and you can get achievements and "badges" based on various criteria. If you're the person who has checked in the most at a given location, you become the "Mayor" of that location.

Recently, foursquare put up a page targeted at businesses who might want to leverage foursquare users to drum up foot traffic.

Today is the big day. A kidney transplant is happening in the Twin Cities this morning, thanks to twitter.