A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to meet Jess in San Francisco during her second week at Envoy. I learned a lot about her, her process and her sense of humor and am excited to share some of that with you. Hey Jess! Why don’t you tell the folks at home a little bit about yourself? Oh hi, endless internet abyss!👋 I’m Envoy’s…

In September of 2015, I worked with the team at RaiseMore to help run a two day feedback summit in Oklahoma City. We went through 4 feedback sessions. The rounds of one-on-one interaction with real people were incredibly helpful. The Group discussions on Day 3 discussing the product roadmap were…

If no one is using your editorial products, your products cannot make money. How do we sustain profitability while preserving our soul? — Advertising on the web is generally regarded as being an obnoxious, terrible and immoral thing. I disagree with that… with some caveats. I think advertising, in it’s many forms, was a logical step in the monetization of the web. Advertising is an ever-present part of modern life. You can’t open…

But are they? Has business become a damaging replacement for people? — For a while now, I’ve been musing in some form or another that “Design & Business are inherently linked.” Recently I’ve been having second thoughts. I mean, functionally, I understand the commercial nature of Design’s history. Design, as we know it, stems from commercial art, and without the element of…