base camp

A few weeks ago Natasha (my girlfriend) told me about a post she wrote on her blog (Reorg) which described some basecamp best practices.

Take note Basecamp users, a universal mobile app for your favorite project management tool is seeking beta testers as of today.

Much like Rails was extracted from a BaseCamp, Vertebra has been extracted from various techniques we've used to manage our internal cloud.

Having built popular web apps like Basecamp, they know a thing or two about user experience.

I quickly pulled up a test Basecamp account I had made a while ago.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Basecamp, it's a popular web-based project management software solution.

He is a partner in 37signals, the company behind Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, Writeboard, and Ta-da List.

Playing along with the self-organization theme, Basecamp simply allows people to collaborate on the project in a distributed way.

99% of our customers never knew, but we still posted an "unexpected downtime" notice to our Everything Basecamp blog.

For project management, there's BaseCamp, Apollo and literally dozens more.

The path from basecamp to camp 1 led along the glacier and then up a steep slope to 6400 m.

Basecamp's project switcher window has a large soft drop shadow that helps the menu area stand out.

People have meetings through Skype or Basecamp group chat.

Basecamp, for example, has content in some 70 languages at least. It works very well.

Base camp homepage design: 14% increase in conversions

Luckily, 37Signals provided a terrific example yesterday with their Basecamp Homepage Redesign