Sep 9, 2019Introducing SparkI’m excited to announce the release of a project we’ve been working on for a long while in our free time over at Dragon Army. But first, a preface. A little history UI designers and coders have near endless free and premium resources to help facilitate their workflows and speed up their processes…Design4 min readDesign4 min read
Mar 11, 2014Hey you, I can’t read your font.Please stop using terribly rendered web fonts. — With the inevitable rise of the modern, capable browser and the wonderful functionality it brings, we are, in turn, treated to browser rendering issues that stem up from either: lack of QA lack of care I don’t think I’m missing an option there. Offenders fit into one of those two…2 min read2 min read
Oct 16, 2013Two Things To Never Say About Your ProductsFor the love of god… — In my relatively short tenure in product design, I’ve seen my fair share of victories and failures, be it my own, my colleagues or fellow app builders. I’m definitely no [insert famed Silicon Valley wunderkind here], but I do know two surefire phrases you can say if you want to…2 min read2 min read
Oct 11, 2013My Endless Struggle with Free TimeWhat to do…what to do… — Every time I fire up Chrome, I’m treated to a visual feast of Dribbble content thanks to the very cool Benchwarmer extension. …3 min read3 min read
Jun 11, 2013The biggest miss of iOS7 isn’t the visual design - it’s where they didn’t focusAs Apple’s keynote closed up yesterday, I think it is safe to say the vocal Appleverse has probably never been more split. In the wake of Forstall’s departure, the Ive-lead iOS redesign was unveiled to metoric applause and ridicule. …3 min read3 min read
May 10, 2013The Low Hanging Fruit of AffordanceI’ve been working on a web app that had no design resource on it for 4 months. A third of a year of developer-driven UI, UX and interaction decisions. There was tons of functionality there, and kudos to the dev team for it, but it was a good ways off…2 min read2 min read
