A tale of adventure with Kevin and Marc from North Technologies — Calvin and Hobbes, Jake and Finn, He-man and Battlecat. Great companionships are the indelible maker of adventure. Herein lies the tale of two such companions who shared in the authentic exchange of ideas and feelings to create an app called Tiiny. Tiiny is a fun, novel way to share moments…

Good design principles can be learned and exercised by anyone. This guide will give you a basic knowledge of practical design tips you can apply today (and impress your design friends). —

Friends, Despite devoted efforts, by a very talented and capable team, we have made the difficult decision to close Design Inc. Because people are and always will be the most important thing to us, we returned all remaining funds to our investors, dissolved the team, reimbursed our designers and closed…

Waveblocks are a limited collection of 666 algorithmically generated NFT inspired by waves. — The process of creating art is evolving and elusive. We don’t quite know how Mark Rothko created his Colour Field paintings and we are just now wrapping our heads around Vermeer’s Camera Obscura. Artists channel the world and then apply process and steps to generate a work of art. As…

This post is an attempt to catalog the creation of the TeeFury logo and the general design process I tended to follow 10 years. I wrote this around 2009 and am reposting for posterity. I was a co-founder of Teefury.com …

Life, as it turns out, happens in waves.. At the most fundamental level, creation is made possible by waves of light, sound, magnetism, and thought. When we build something, like a startup, we’re at the mercy of, and hopefully conquering, the waves of economies, technology, funding, and user adoption. …

Every designer knows the beauty of constraint. Choosing what to work on is just as important as choosing what not to work on. 4 years ago, when I was considering leaving Google to start a new company, Hunter Walk shared this forcing question “What are you optimizing for?” Money? Power…

Imagine you’re a plumber. You have spent decades at your craft — first as an apprentice, then journeyman, and finally becoming a master. One day, a dear friend calls you, with desperation in their voice, and tells you their corporate office has a massive slab leak and they don’t know…

I teamed up with Joel Beukelman to give a talk at Creative South 2017 in Columbus, Georgia to share tips for designers on a wide variety of topics from craft and work-life balance to the business of design. Joel works with me on Design Inc. — a company dedicated to…