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Don’t Believe The Hype 9 Apr 2013 | 10:03 pm
Last year I helped create an alarm clock app, called Rise. To our surprise, it received a lot of attention. A lot more than we had ever anticipated. With this kind of attention there are bound to be h...
How To Copy Apple 13 Sep 2012 | 11:46 pm
The day after an Apple announcement is full of articles that are office chair quarterbacking the company’s decisions and cooking up large pots of claim chowder on its future. Here is my take on what t...
Startup Stagnation 24 Aug 2012 | 10:22 pm
This is an excerpt from my essay in the second issue of Distance, a nice, quarterly publication full of essays on design and technology. If you enjoy thoughtful and smart writing, and being a part of ...
Simplicity Isn’t Simple 27 Apr 2012 | 05:41 am
Simplicity. It’s weaved into conversations about everything from to-do list apps to DVD players. We meet confusion (not the same as complexity) at the door of our design process and turn it away. Conf...
Ideas of March 16 Mar 2012 | 06:37 pm
The reason I started writing, is because I enjoyed reading blogs. However, it wasn’t because they were all good. At a certain point there was a shift from great knowledge and insights being shared, to...
What Your Product’s Design Says About You 22 Feb 2012 | 09:26 am
In the book, Do You Matter? How Great Design Will Make People Love Your Company, the authors take the reader through a series of car lots while shopping for some new wheels. As we traverse the mishmas...
What will our (future) interfaces feel like? 28 Jan 2012 | 11:43 am
The visual language of our interfaces has gone through a lot of changes over the past decade. Remember what the Web 2.0 interfaces felt like? Giant type, ginormous forms, and buttons that would make F...
The Mosquito And Steve Jobs 26 Aug 2011 | 02:39 am
** Author’s note: This post was written the night after Steve Jobs left Apple. As you know, he passed away less than a month later. I believe that my feelings about the future of Apple have probably c...
It’s Not Responsive Web Building, It’s Responsive Web Design 12 Aug 2011 | 05:47 am
For an industry that generates probably more buzzwords than any other, we love to pretend to shun them. So, unless you’ve been living in a cabin in the woods for the last year, you’ve likely been bash...
Long Live the Redesign 20 May 2011 | 06:14 am
In 2005, Cameron Moll wrote an article about something that was as incessant then, as it is now: The redesign. In a nutshell, the concept he put forward is: Great designers adjust an existing work wi...
