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Category Archives: Writing

Innovation Insanity

Is it just me, or does the armchair quarterbacking of our tech leaders towards other industries underscore the absurdity of their allegiance to innovation? Just look to the way they’ve discussed the recent automotive crisis. With all of the U.S. auto manufacturers facing serious shortages of cash, insanely high labor costs, highly […]

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 […]

A Reason to Write

As I’ve failed to keep up a consistent output for this blog, one thing has become crystal clear — writing is impossible if you don’t know who you’re writing for, or why you’re writing. Today, I think I’ve finally found my crowd. It’s me, and everyone like me.

In Due Course Of Time*

This blog has been a long time coming. A long time. In fact, this blog could be nearly a year old today. I’ve been fan of Chris Fahey’s graphpaper.com for a while and his open suggestion that everyone should have a blog made perfect sense to me—blogs are about communicating ideas and, […]