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  • The value of originality

    January 27, 2015 • 3 min read

    A few months ago I was at Circles Conference where I had a chance to join a panel of designers to talk about challenges we commonly face. One of th...

  • Lessons learned from checking baggage

    May 12, 2014 • 10 min read

    It’s no secret that airlines have been trying to push their profit margin and increase ticket sales at the same time by a relatively common practic...

  • Why Apple is wealthier than any other company in the world

    January 16, 2014 • 5 min read

    I randomly ran across a YouTube clip today of Steve Jobs speaking at WWDC 1997. Specifically, it’s his response to an audience member who was allow...

  • Markerboard Mentality

    May 2, 2013 • 5 min read

    I have a markerboard in my office. I also have a Macbook Air with as many prototyping and design creation apps as you can think of. But I prefer to...

  • Flat Design or Skeuomorphism - Wrong Question

    March 23, 2013 • 2 min read

    Like most designers, I’ve read more articles, blog posts, and tweets about Flat Design versus Skeuomorphic design over the past several months than...

  • Are Domain Hacks Devaluing .COMs?

    December 19, 2012 • 4 min read

    Long gone are the days of the Dot-com boom. And yet, premium dot-com domain names still go for tens of thousands of dollars.

  • On Usability and User Testing

    June 10, 2012 • 7 min read

    The web standards movement has done amazing things for the web over the past few years. Not just for the web vaguely - specifically for web develop...

  • What makes Trello different?

    June 4, 2012 • 2 min read

    Recently I was introduced to a wonderful piece of project/task management software by Fran Lukesh, CD at andCulture, while working on a contract pr...

  • Will WYSIWYG software inherit the earth?

    September 16, 2011 • 8 min read

    *Disclaimer: some of you will read this and think, "Yay, another 'Should designer's know how to code' blog post." And'll you'll be right. Or at lea...

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