Hundreds of you have written in today with your opinions about the new site design. And I was pleasantly surprised that the response have been overwhelmingly positive. But I want to thank everyone who’s written in with comments, critiques, suggestions, etc. The praise is much more fun. But we value the criticisms too; and especially those we can incorporate in a concrete way. So thank you.
Next, let me thank two companies that made this possible. Threespot did the design work for the new TPM. And Apperceptive.com did the back-end implementation. A big thanks to both of them.
And finally, a big thanks to the people who work for TPM. It’s funny. I look at the site now. And it looks deceptively simple. Probably any half way decent designer could replicate it without too much difficulty. And probably fairly quickly. But the whole process was really a marathon, taking far longer than I imagined. We started late last year and originally I thought we’d be up and going in like February.
Here at the risk of some embarrassment to myself is the sketch I sent to the designers the day before we had our first design meeting.
In any case, I raise all this because I have an amazing group of people who work with me. Put in long hours, deal with a pretty demanding boss and just generally did an amazing amount of work to help bring this off. So a big thanks to Paul Kiel, Spencer Ackerman, Andrew Cleary, Ben Craw, T.W. Farnam, Andrew Golis, Eric Kleefeld, Laura McGann, Greg Sargent, Benjy Sarlin, Evann Smith, Will Thomas, Tanvir Vahora and Rachel Weiner.
