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On Design Theft 25 Aug 2012 | 07:06 am
Back when I was doing design work for clients, it seemed like my work would get re-purposed by fledgling and not-so-fledgling designers every month. Sometimes I'd get a tip in my email about a theft t...
Making Rounded Rectangles Look Great 26 Jan 2012 | 05:34 pm
Great product design involves thinking about what features to prioritize, planning the user flow from screen to screen, getting user feedback and lots more, but at the end of the day, someone is going...
Ketchup Bottles & The Physicality Of Design 2 Jan 2012 | 06:38 pm
At lunch earlier today I snapped a picture of the top of a Heinz ketchup bottle. It's not remarkable, but it caught my eye because the look of the embossed text in the cap is exactly the look that so...
Twitter For iPhone Takes A Step Back 9 Dec 2011 | 04:49 pm
Today, Twitter unveiled redesigns for their website, iPhone and Android apps. As a long-time Twitter user and Twitter app aficionado, I've come to expect a certain level of thought & polish in everyth...
A New Flyosity.com 8 Nov 2011 | 08:15 pm
After months of off-and-on work, I'm happy to finally show off the freshly-redesigned Flyosity.com. Here's a quick list of what's new: Cleaner, simpler, sharper, less blue, more white. There is now...
Android's Touch Responsiveness Is Terrible 19 Oct 2011 | 05:23 pm
On mobile devices, there is absolutely no room for error. No room for blurry pixels, no room for confusing icons, no room for user experience mistakes, no room for sluggishness. The entire device is o...
Introducing Nice & Mean: My 10-Hour iPhone App Experiment 3 Oct 2011 | 03:17 pm
Some teams spend a year or more crafting an iPhone app that uses every ounce of their good taste and development talents. These apps are big gambles and a big payoff is needed to justify all the expen...
The iPhone 5, 4S, iPad 3 And More 8 Sep 2011 | 10:28 am
This is based on speculation and my opinions on the future of Apple products. I know people at Apple but they don't give me any information. 1. 15" & 17" MacBook Pro refresh. The next iteration of th...
If You Can Think, Design & Code, You Win 1 Sep 2011 | 03:35 pm
Earlier today I tweeted a link to Andy Rutledge's latest entry, "Web Design is Product Design" which, in the first line, offended at least 50 of my followers on Twitter: A designer who does not write...
How Color Already Blew It 25 Mar 2011 | 08:58 am
Human attention is a scarce commodity in this flashy, New Thing Comes Out Every Day™ world we live in. Startups that dominate the blog headlines one day may be all but forgotten a mere 24 hours later....
