Nothing feels better than the start of a new year — it’s fresh chance to take a look at where you’ve been and where you can go. While 2008 has been an incredible year for my business, I can only be excited at how much opportunity 2009 holds. Running a small design shop is very […]
Category Archives: Design
More Than Just The Interface
A few days ago, Josh Gruber took a potshot at an admittedly dreadful looking Windows utility, the aptly named “Bulk Rename Utility.” For some reason, something just felt off about the post — yes, it looks like hell at first glance, but it also looks powerful.
In Print
I was kindly asked a few months ago to write a short piece for .net magazine (Practical Web Design in the US), a great industry publication that covers the convergence of interaction design and site development technology. My mini article is about how small design changes (link hit states, hover interactivity) can have a […]
Let’s All Play Nice
Nathan Bowers recently posted an ‘I think it sucks‘-rant against the new delicious.com re-design, and it got me thinking about the lack of constructive design criticism on the web. While criticism in any form is a notoriously difficult dialogue to establish, I know it doesn’t look like this.
Introducing Found Color
In the goal of keeping things fresh around this blog, I’m starting a mini-blog for “found color” palettes that I grab with my camera. I’ve tried to start a system like this for myself for years, to help create new color ideas for my client work. I’m hoping that putting this out here […]
My Workflow, Your Workflow, and What Are We Doing?
Last week, 37signals posts “Why we skip Photoshop” and seemingly every web designer working that day chimes in with “that’s cool for you, but” and defends pushing pixels in that aging beast as if it were a constitutional right. Looking over some of the responses, one thing becomes clear quick — you’ll have to […]
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