The Archives / Design

There are 21 posts in the Design archive.

• Ship It

  I'm a big fan of doing instead of talking. So much so I forget to talk about the things I should talk about. It's been a busy few weeks -- and I totally forgot to talk about some… Read More

• Design Exercises

  The idea of a design exercise is nothing new, but I recently read a tweet from Cameron Moll that made me rethink about… Read More

• Point of view

  It's funny, for the first time in a long time WWDC didn't generate a strong vote of positive or negative. It kind of sparked both. We have the comings and goings of Safari, the… Read More

• Revisiting Flex

  A while ago I hinted that I was taking a second-glance at this whole web-publishing business and trying out Read More

• Organix: Homepage tabs, Featured article detail

  I haven't been talking much about Organix lately -- because I've been hard at work actually doing (as well as working… Read More

• Organix: Finishing off the homepage

  Here's a quick check in on my redesign progress. I think I've gotten to a good point now with the home page.

• Live redesign: Organix

  It's been a long time coming, but the time for the format of my site is about to change. Unlike last time, this redesign isn't going to… Read More

• Spotting a fake: “New apple design”

  I spend far too much time on digg wasting my time, so my eyes sharpened when I saw this new apple.com design... or… Read More

• Why designers don’t contribute to open source

  There's been much discussion all over the web about how ugly open source is. Why is that so? Because designers are usually the last people to contribute to open source, and it's… Read More

• The state of the web: August 2006

  All words and thoughts in the proceeding article come out of my own nonsense brain and are probably more wild speculation than truth. Take what you read with a grain of salt

  I've… Read More

• Jumping Ship

  Recently, someone in 9rules asked about whether it was safe to abandon 800x600 users on a new web application they were designing. A few people were adamantly against this, and… Read More

• Closet developers

  I get a fair number of people asking me "how do I do that?" -- referring to web design, of course. Many of them are envious (usually after they find out my salary), but don't realize… Read More

• Rails Day is coming, Rails Day is coming!

  If there's one time of year that I get really excited about programming, it's Rails Day. Last year's Rails Day was my first immersion into… Read More

• The devil is in the details: a review of Backpack

  I know I'm no graphical genius or have talent oozing out of my brain, but I'd like to think I'm a decent… Read More

• Apple’s new hot thing

  I love Apple. No, not in the way that I love Mt. Dew (which I do) but in the way that I love the brand. I love the ideals behind it, I love the products backing it, I love the people… Read More

• Resolution dependent layouts are not the future

  There's been a bit of a scuffle lately around resolution dependent layouts. I've heard such phrases… Read More

• Frutiger

  

  This… Read More

• Why Cameron Moll kicks ass

  I believe that a designer's life can be shaped by around five people, and those people may become his mentors even if he has never met them. Cameron… Read More

• Designing under stress

  I've found something interesting that I think Zeldman kind of hinted at the other day.… Read More

• Critiquing web design

  I've got an opinion and I'm nitpicky. If you want a review, you better really want it.

• Opening Reception

  I'm going to kick this blog off with a good old fashioned design review. It may be boring to those normal folk out there, but for those design geeks this is as good as it gets.