Prose, obsessed upon for far too long. Judge kindly.
In the design community there often seems to be this need, or this want to immediately critique a design. Critique might be too kind of a word, it’s more of a hate on a design. To immediately call something out as terrible, wrong, ridiculous, stupid or just plain dumb. In offices I’ve worked in I often hear people immediately yell out that something is “clowntown” or laugh about how terrible a design is or how horrendous a drop shadow might be.
I like to archive mail instead of deleting it. Gmail brought this into vogue a few years back and with their unlimited storage it’s almost silly to delete anything but a few spam messages and the most mundane emails. The problem is I also like to use Mail.app as my email client. So in order for me to archive email I’ve had to drag every message into Gmail’s All Mail folder.
When I hear people tell me:
“What camera should I get to take better pictures?”
Or:
“How do people find the time to write?”
Or my personal favorite:
“If I only had the time…”
It drives me crazy. These are all just essentially excuses for the same problem. Just do it already.
Last week I attended a day of the UX Week conference and was lucky enough to listen to a talk from Bernhard Seefeld and Elizabeth Windram from the Google Maps team. During their talk they mentioned something that perked my interest. It didn’t sound like the same old, same old when I hear people talk about user experience.
They design for the power user.
Welcome to a bigger, clearer, and a fresh new design of T Incorporated. My friend Mike Davidson likes to call this T Incorporated bad vision edition. I wouldn’t go quite that far, but with this redesign I pushed myself to really go big and bring the content forward. I wanted to stop hiding behind all of the meta data of my old design and push to have my work front and center. With my first iteration of T Incorporated a few years back, I was so excited to show all of the various information about the data I was ...
It’s with some sadness and a whole lot of excitement that I’m announcing I’ll be leaving Blue Flavor and going to work at Facebook as a Product Designer. I’m sad to be leaving a great group of friends and co-workers, but excited for the opportunity to work for such an smart, talented group of people working on such a well known and widely distributed product.
Everyone I met both during the interview process had a palpable passion for the product that was both humbling and inspiring. One thing is clear, people love working at Facebook and ...
I love photography and I love it printed.
Originally, I started Level & Tap as a fun way to sell a few of my prints online, but shortly after I launched it I realized I couldn’t post enough photos to have people keep coming back to the site. There’s only so many of my photos I felt would look good printed, and I wanted to keep the quality of the site high.
For those of you who missed it last year, a few of us are getting together at Katzs Deli for the 2nd annual Polaroid Breakfast. Last year I wasn’t able to make it do to an airport security snafu but this year, unless the weather or security have it out for me again, I plan to be there.
We’ll be talking about all things Polaroid, from the recently announced The Impossible Project to what filters you might be using or where you’ve still been able to find some film. It should be a good times had by ...
In the past few years I’ve grown increasingly frustrated with the “idea people”. People who are constantly coming up with new ideas, or the concept that the more ideas you have the better off you’ll be. Their view is that the better ideas are the new ones. Three old ideas were alright, but this new, great, special idea is the real ticket. That’s bullshit.
New ideas, truly original, invigorating ones are rare, ones that you can act on are even rarer and the ones that you’re willing to put the time and effort into are even ...