Case Study: Redesigning The Folyo Landing Page
Last week, I unveiled a new design for the Folyo homepage. Folyo is a service that helps connect companies with great freelance designers. It had been stagnant for a while, so I decided to try and...
View ArticleRealdesign
If you’ve been following the news about Syria lately, you might have come across the term “realpolitik”: Realpolitik refers to politics or diplomacy based primarily on power and on practical and...
View ArticleComing (Back) To Beijing
Unless I’m prevented from doing so by one of Japan’s frequent typhoons, I’ll be taking the plane for Beijing tomorrow. I’ve been to Beijing many times, and even lived there for a while a few years ago....
View ArticleThinking Small: Finding The Right Niche
The word niche comes from French, where it means roughly the same thing as in English: a small, somewhat isolated space. But in French, the word has an additional meaning that’s just as common: a niche...
View ArticleUndo
I love the Internet. But I just wish it would give us “undo” back. The ability to undo mistakes is one of the most powerful advantages of computers over their analog competitors. Yet ever since...
View ArticleSee You in SF
I’ll be making my annual pilgrimage to San Francisco next month. San Francisco is definitely a unique place in the world, and I’m always happy to take a vacation there to meet old friends and make new...
View ArticleFrom #CodeYear to #DiscoverMeteorDay
Two years ago, I was coincidentally involved in the making of one of the most viral sites of all time. When I opened Photoshop to design the CodeYear landing page, I definitely wasn’t expecting things...
View Article2013 In Review
The new year is here, and with it the traditional “year in review” posts. I didn’t do one last year, and I ended up regretting it. Not because I think anybody else cares, but because I think it’s nice...
View ArticleSpeaking at Rebuild
Just a quick announcement to say that the folks at Rebuild gave me the amazing opportunity to come and speak at their conference. The conference will take place on April 18th in Indianapolis, and I’ll...
View ArticleRebuild 2014 Report
I’m typing this from a café in San Francisco, but just 24 hours ago I was sitting in the Indiana History Center, listening to Julie Ann Horvath give a talk about people. And just 48 hours before that,...
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