Ever wondered what makes somebody work on some project for free, after their daily jobs?
As Dan Pink shows in this beautifully illustrated talk, it has more to do with autonomy and mastery than with monetary rewards. Rewards that sometimes backfire at stimulating a behavior.
Definitely worth spending 10 minutes:
Found here, originally.
We just uploaded some introductory text for RSS Feeds and Calendars.
As you probably know, Teambox’s activities can be synchronized with other devices: You can follow activity feeds from news readers, you can sync with Google Calendar, etc.
The problem is that we have two kinds of users:
This is why we just rolled out two intermediate pages for Calendars and Feeds. The goal was to teach what they are useful for and how to start using them.
People will use your service more if you teach them how to use it fully. Teach beginners how to become heavy users by giving them the tools.
An excellent example for this is FeedBurner’s page for feeds (click to enlarge).
This page explains where you are, and gives you instructions for different clients.
This is how our screens look like. We provide links to your feeds and calendars.
Note how the calendar provides more options than a simple link in the page would. There’s quick access to other calendars, and you can filter your own tasks or sync all.
We hope this will make it easier for everyone to use these features!
More food for though from Kathy Sierra: You can out-spend or out-teach
I enjoyed this short animation clip, “The Hedgehog and the Fog” (1975).
Any modern 3d animation film makes it look ridiculously underproduced. But then, it makes you think how a great animation clip is not only about animation.
There’s the story, there’s the narrator’s voice, there’s the music…
And then I realize that good design doesn’t need fancy graphics to be awesome.
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