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Dribbble: why I vow to share my work in progress as clear and unobscured as possible 21 Dec 2012 | 03:32 pm
There’s nothing like having our work reviewed by peers. As Mark Boulton stated earlier this year: “I feel crits are a place where you can fail without the fear of failure. A place where you can explai...
Distinguish – stating the obvious 1 May 2012 | 06:39 am
Say I’m looking for a todo app. There’s a few things I need it to do: add todo’s, categorize them and check of them of. So I do a quick search on the web, perhaps ask about it on twitter, and then mak...
Opinionated or pigheaded? 14 Apr 2012 | 11:26 pm
You’ve busted your ass on a project. You gave it all you have. And you know it shows. But upon presentation, the client dismisses it: it’s just not quite what they are looking for. You get upset and t...
Finding your own voice 17 Mar 2012 | 11:19 pm
It’s “Ideas of March” month (I wrote an Ideas of March post last Thursday) and I’ve been reading several #ideasmarch blogs I ran into on twitter – and noticed a lot of people want to blog, but struggl...
Ideas of March 16 Mar 2012 | 06:28 am
I ran into Meagan Fisher’s Ideas of March post on twitter today. I recognize much of what she’s saying, and likewise, I’m sharing some of my own thoughts on blogging in support of the #ideasofmarch bl...
Hey web: Let’s get serious about content 4 Mar 2012 | 08:58 am
It’s 2012. The web has been around for over 20 years and has matured a lot since then. Not only do we have the people and tools for meeting the standards long set for printed content: we have a need t...
Scrum and agile design 1 Mar 2012 | 05:51 am
I’ve never liked project methodologies much. In fact, until I learned about Scrum a few years ago and noticed how well it worked for my colleagues I believed design was best served by, well, pretty mu...
You are not your tools 27 Feb 2012 | 10:52 pm
In the course of hiring new colleagues at work I’ve reviewed a fair share of applications over the past few months. There’s one thing that keeps surprising me: the focus so many place on the tools the...
Dude where’s your site? 27 Feb 2012 | 02:26 am
The short answer? I took it down – it is gone. The reason I took it down is that I’ve been wanting to post new stuff to this site, but didn’t because I first wanted to finish the new version of my si...
A short story about food. And design. 1 Jul 2011 | 05:12 am
Imagine you’re sitting in a restaurant. Your friends told you about the great food they serve, and you are looking forward to find out if it’s as good as they promised you. The waiter is just telling...
