Collaboration at scale — A few years ago I witnessed something on twitter that struck a cord with me, I’m not sure why but the project fascinated me. I was watching a hashtag, #chainletter — every time it popped up there was a new letter by some designer out there in the world. I’m…

Creating a poster show from scratch is hard. Creating a poster show when you’ve never done it before is even harder. But a small group of dedicated designers living in Austin, Texas pulled it off — and, in the end, galvanized the community to generate nearly 10,000 meals for Central…

Should a designer know how to code? I’m at ConvergeSE in Columbia, South Carolina this week, and I am surrounded by really smart people. …

How does a designer go from Nike to IBM? The short answer is that there’s no real defined path when you’re making transitions from marketing to software. That’s true for a lot of job transition — it’s true for designers and it’s true for most people in general. For me…