The Archives
- New Articles: Content Strategy and Design Process
- Upcoming Speaking: SXSW Interactive and Microsoft MIX10
- Before You Hire a Writer
- Are You a Partner or a Vendor?
- 2009 To 2010
- Introducing WhichDigi.com
- Been Busy
- Growing Pains: From Freelance to Agency
- Matt Speakin’ at Seattle Refresh
- Respect
- It’s Easy
- Status Envy
- Pretty Please (SXSW)
- Refresh’d
- Break Your Mold
- Second and Park Redesign: Low-tech, Offline, Collaborative
- Matt Featured in .net magazine #190 (Practical Web Design)
- Tiff Published in Marketing Magazine
- Anatomy of a Case Study
- And Then There Were Two
- Sample Resume Template
- Smart
- Ebb and Flow
- A Bigger Bite
- One Year Strong
- Tolerate Only the Best
- See You at South By
- Introducing Ui Tuneup
- Complex Made Simple
- Drinking the Orange Juice
- The New Nick
- Just A Small Clean Up
- Eyes On Your Own Paper
- Creative Business Love
- Design is a process
- Go Small
- Café Vita
- Lawyers, money but no guns
- You Can’t Lose
- Oh Nine
- Two Dot Seven
- More Than Just The Interface
- B is for bacon
- Old School
- Innovation Insanity
- In Print
- Portfolio Panic
- Someone Finally Said It
- Tomorrow
- Quick and Dirty
- Café Presse
- Seattle Is My Office
- Do Less
- What I Use
- What Works For You Matters
- Out of Hiding
- Make Things Less Internet-y
- Please Yourself
- The First Four Months of Freelancing (Refresh Seattle)
- What’s After The Ads?
- Speaking at Refresh
- You’ve Heard It Before
- Callcast with Jeff Croft
- Let’s All Play Nice
- Introducing Found Color
- Don’t Work in Your Underwear
- Am I A Consultant?
- ABC’s and Thinking Like a Client
- Digital Film
- A Reason to Write
- Showing Off
- Laser-eyed Mice (With No Tails)
- My Workflow, Your Workflow, and What Are We Doing?
- Reset Friday
- Straw Moodboards
- 37signals Backlash, Futurethink, and Innovate for Yesterday
- In Due Course Of Time*
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Best of Brown
Introducing WhichDigi.com
Just a formal note about a site I launched a bit ago: WhichDigi? — http://whichdigi.com. It’s just a simple microsite to help people decide which type of entry-level camera to purchase.
The concept was to cut through the overloading of technical information surrounding digital cameras, with some simple and direct advice. Just spend a few […]
Been Busy
When it rains it pours right? I’ve been pretty busy this year. More than just busy though, I’ve been extremely lucky to work on some amazing projects with some wonderful teams and smart people.
This is what working as an independent, design agency is all about: good work, good people.
This week, three projects that I lead […]
Growing Pains: From Freelance to Agency
Refreshed
This is embarrassingly tardy, but I wanted to say thanks to all those attended my Seattle Refresh presentation a few weeks ago. My presentation was largely a follow up to a previous Refresh talk I gave, about my first few months of freelancing.
This time, I talked about my recent switch from strictly freelancing to a more […]
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