- Bad design, good design, my design, your design. Also includes thoughts on such thrilling topics as typography, color, aesthetics, and theory.
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- Where’d You Go?
- As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve been taking a bit of a break lately. But there’s some exciting stuff coming up in the not too distant future.
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- Listening Between the Leading
- I was recently interviewed for the Read Between the Leading podcast.
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- What’s Golden
- The rule of thirds and ratios such as the golden section are fantastic methods for achieving designs that feel cohesive. The problem is these principles don’t really apply to web design.
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- Pretty Sketchy
- Sketchbooks are not about being a good artist, they’re about being a good thinker.
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- Reflections on Layer Tennis
- Last Friday I played in Coudal Partner’s Layer Tennis in a east coast vs west coast brawl with Derek Powazek, a friend and one of my favorite web designers. I thought it might be fun to give some background on the match.
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- What the World Needs
- “Art?! As soon as there’s a war or recession, art will be the first thing to go. And when that happens, you’ll be right back here washing dishes. People will always need cooks.”
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- Simple.
- Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
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- The Death Throes of Print?
- With print publications ailing, is this finally the time mainstream publishing to take the web seriously?
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- 24ways
- I wrote a new article for 24ways called Making Modular Layout Systems.
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- Cultivating Conversations
- Is there a way to make comment threads more useful, and more usable?
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- My First Website
- Preserving the web, one embarrassing personal site at a time.
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- Progress Report
- Looking back on how this experiment is going.
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- Profiled
- The PDF of my profile in .net magazine.
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- On the Subject of Design
- Good books are tough to find, so I’ve begun keeping track of notable ones.
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- Hello, My Name Is
- Badges are often a decidedly unfun and necessary evil of attending conferences. I have a pile of the things, some too big or too small, and others so garish they feel like a punishment. I can deal with an ugly badge, but I hate an unusable one.
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- Change of Heart
- Quotes from Jan Tschichold, master typographer, designer, writer and infamous design flip-flopper.
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- Explain Yourself
- Contemplations on the utility of “graphic” in the title “graphic designer” for someone who designs websites.
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- Touch, See, and Hear
- A survey for people who make websites, a film of people who make things, and an evening of people who read books.
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- If You Were a Typeface…
- A bit of cheesy fun: tell me what typeface best represents you. Extra points for additional typeface info.
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- Appearing
- A podcast interview with CreativeXpert and a live speaking event for Field-Tested Books in NYC on July 28th.
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- Shake it Like a Metaphorical Picture
- Sometime next year, Polaroid will stop producing instant film. This represents a huge blow to photography, but also a loss of one of our greatest visual metaphors.
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- Kiss of Death
- I retire the use of the Slanty Photo Treatment™ from my design repertoire. Good riddance.
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- Variation Within Constraints
- When I design sites in my professional life, I try to create an experience that will work for the majority of the site’s visitors and will also be engaging, and most times, in that order. With my personal site, I’m pretty much trying the reverse of that.
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- A New Day
- I still like my old site design; it feels distinct even now, and I didn’t really see the point in redesigning until I needed to. My old site stayed in generally the same form for nearly five years. But I finally caved and redesigned. So, why the change? I’m glad you asked.
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