Isolation
You probably experience this on a regular basis: a client sends you an illustration or a logo they’d like to use in a project, but it’s a low-res bitmap or a flat image file with a background…
An Incomplete Education I’ll probably get skewered from every angle for this,1 but what the...
An Incomplete Education
I’ll probably get skewered from every angle for this,1 but what the heck. A pal asked me what I know about women for a project he’s doing. Here’s 10 minutes’ worth….
Follow the Money: The Best and Worst Places to Work by Average Salary
Not happy with your present salary? Wondering what city holds the gold at the end of the rainbow? We’ve done the research for you. Above you will…
How to Get Your Ideas Across to Clients
We know all too well the common and frustrating design scenarios clients present us with, such as wanting us to stretch images disproportionally, cramming as much information as possible in a…
We be tweetin'
(October 23, 2009) According to a just released study from the Pew Internet and American…
homogenize people from over fifty different countries into one group: "africans"
Yesterday, I was talking to a white friend — a friend who is not at all clueless about her common white tendencies — about a party she’d recently attended. At one point she described one of the…
One-handed computing with the iPhone
The easy single-handed operation of the iPhone1 is not one of its obvious selling points but is one of those little features that grows on you and becomes nearly indispensable. A portable…
INSIGHT: UI that looked sexy in Photoshop almost always
UI that looked sexy in Photoshop almost always looks overdesigned when we try it for real in the browser. Here’s a hypothesis. Simple and useful designs just don’t seem good enough when they are…
Lessons from innovative advertising campaigns
Is your work useful, relevant and/or entertaining?
Jessica Greenwood, the Deputy Editor of Contagious Magazine gave a great presentation this week at Advertising Week 2009. Greenwood’s…
