I’ve got two objectives with this blog; to give information and to gain information – it is all about insight. I don’t write for my co-workers, friends or family. When I write, I am often writing for someone who I’ve never met; someone who is asking or answering the same questions as I.
Long story short, my wife, Valerie, and I have decided to split up; we’ll soon just be a statistic. Unfortunately no juicy drama and nothing scandalous to report – we just realized we were not perfectly suited for each other.
Everyone’s been bitching and complaining about “spec work” these last few weeks; but I am here to rock the boat and write-up a quick little statement in support of spec.
The economy seems to be in the media spotlight and we are all sort of scared shitless. Yet, I wonder, how bad is it? Just looking around in my own neighborhood, every design agency here is hiring.
So yeah, New Years has come and gone but you are still the same procrastinator you were last year; some things never change.
Nothing ground breaking here and no true innovation; just bringing to light something of demand with no supply. It is simple and sweet, simply a wall outlet with a slot for USB charging built-in.
Twitter didn’t start out to be the definition of “Micro Blogging”; that term came out of Twitters popularity, out of the way the product was utilized by its users. Twitter didn’t create micro-blogging; Twitter users did using the Twitter platform.
This industry is so quick to throw its success to the public but so fearful to do the same for its failures. I question why, especially in an industry where our failures are so fundamentally important to our success.
The economy is in a sore spot, a recession is here and layoffs are plentiful; even within our own luxurious Internet industry. But what is bothering me most are the organizations that put profits before people; and hide behind terms like “right sizing”.
With Twitter’s ever growing popularity comes with it a change in who is using the application and how they are using the application. For many of us, it is hard to adapt to the changing environment; so I ask for a change in environment.
Somewhere down the line we forgot what it is all about; the user and the user experience. Rouge irresponsible industry leaders are telling us it is time to move on from Internet Explorer 6, IE6.
Last night Dan Rubin spoke to a large group of Washington, D.C. Art Directors about the myths, similarities and differences of design between the print and web mediums.
When jumping in the entrepreneurial world there is much to consider and much to do; but almost nothing is harder or more important than having a really good tax accountant!
I’ve been researching and sketching out a concept for developing a new light-weight CMS that isn’t actually a CMS. It is more of a social networking aggregate publishing system.
If history truly repeats itself, then Facebook will step down from the king of the hill four years from its popularity over MySpace as every leader before it had for almost the past fifteen years.
I decided to take a few hours last night and using CSS alone, create an iPhone/iPod Touch friendly version of the default WordPress theme based on the famous Kubrick.
I am excited and honored to announce that I’ll be teaching a course, GD301A, at the Maryland Institute College of Art this fall semester. It is an amazing opportunity to teach ‘web design’ at such a prestigious institution.
What is more valuable; quantity and quality of work or a degree? If the work ultimately outshines the degree, should we question spending half our first decade getting into debt as opposed to building a career?
A video that does an amazing job of highlighting the sad realities of the creative process that many clients and management teams put us through. The video really highlights the beauty of clean minimalistic design.
Today my first article on Digital Web Magazine was published; pretty exciting stuff! The piece is title, “Smart CSS Ain’t Always Sexy CSS”. Another highly debated topic that I am sure will stir up some good discourse.
You may think its just semantics, but the difference is enormous. For creative teams, those truly creative and striving to push the limits of inspiration and innovation, environment is everything.
The new Walmart logo has a Kmart and Payless visual feel to it; a sense of cheapness. Not the low price type of cheapness; but the sticky floor, strange smell, unkempt employee type of cheapness.
It isn’t the making of mistakes and learning from them that has made me successful – it is knowing that I can and thus not being afraid to make mistakes that is the key.
Today Jason from 37signals posted a ridiculous piece titled, “Why we skip Photoshop”.
Funding isn’t a check box on the start-up list of “things to do”; it is simply an option for those who require help to get where they want to go.
Social Media is not about exposure, it is not about easily accessing of information … those are things that are about the web in general.
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