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Introducing A New Blog 16 Dec 2011 | 12:14 pm
I’m very proud to announce that I’ve finally redesigned my long-dead personal site, and I’ll be blogging over there from now on. I’ve already started blogging, with a post to introduce the new design...
How to Build a Portrait with Dice (using Photoshop) 19 Nov 2011 | 10:21 pm
I recently found this very interesting post about building a portrait with dice while reading Hacker News. In it, Scott MacDonald explains how to code a script to generate a mosaic of dice from an ima...
The Other Reason why Lorem Ipsum is Hurting Your Designs 4 Nov 2011 | 06:24 am
I know what you’re thinking: “Oh, one more post about how content is king and you should design with real copy and not fake text… Well guess what, my client hasn’t given me any copy to work with, but ...
How to Redesign 1 Nov 2011 | 09:07 pm
I’d like to talk about redesigns. Specifically, the unsolicited kind. Unsolicited redesigns are when a designer takes it upon themselves to redesign a site for free without having been asked by the c...
My 3 Go-to Sites for Finding Designers 28 Oct 2011 | 01:10 am
There are already a lot of articles on how to find a designer, including my own. But I thought it was time to revisit the topic, especially since a few interesting sites have recently popped up. So i...
Common Portfolio Mistakes (and how to fix them) 26 Oct 2011 | 09:30 am
Over at the Folyo blog, I just wrote an article about the most common mistakes designers make when designing their own portfolios. I encourage you to read the full article, but here’s a quick run-down...
Style vs No Style 12 Oct 2011 | 06:17 pm
I recently had an interesting exchange with Jin Yang, StackExchange’s (creators of StackOverflow) main designer. It all started from me tweeting out a link to my guide on how to pick a designer. In t...
How to Pick a Great Designer 12 Oct 2011 | 09:36 am
A while back, I wrote a post on how to find a designer. Since then, I’ve created Folyo to help solve that problem. But I was soon confronted with another problem: now that I made it easy for people t...
Introducing Folyo 21 Sep 2011 | 06:13 am
I’m happy to introduce my newest personal project, Folyo Folyo is a newsletter of curated job offers, sent to great designers all over the world. It costs $100 to submit a job offer, and if it’s acce...
Why Quora is in Trouble 17 Jul 2011 | 11:30 pm
Looking back just a few months ago, I used to think Quora was one of the most promising social networks I’d come across in a long time. The Q&A site had somehow succeeded in drafting very interesting ...
