Transitional Interfaces

Designers love to sweat the details. Much time is spent pixel-fucking buttons, form styles, setting type, & getting…

McDonald’s Theory

I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s.

An interesting thing happens. Everyone unanimously agrees that we can’t possibly go to McDonald’s, and better lunch suggestions emerge…

Why good storytelling helps you design great products

Why you should move that button 3px to the left

Three Excuses You Give (When You Know Your Art Sucks)

“All of us who do creative work, we get into it…

How to Present Designs

No matter how utterly innovative, how pristine and beautiful a design idea is, rarely does it speak for itself when you…

Drag & Drop: Think Twice

It’s not a UX panacea.

Nothing embodies the graphical user interface like drag & drop. You use a mouse pointer (or, more recently, a finger) to select an object and move it to a new location. Often the object, its original location, and the…

5 things designers wish their clients from hell knew

The long, painful battle between graphic designers and clients never ends. There are lots of things designers want to say to their clients, but it seems they never say that directly to their clients (of course, who would?). After asking…

Side projects are the new resume

Applying for jobs can make you feel old, especially in the tech world. No one cares about your resume anymore. Hardly anyone asks where you went to college. And where years ago you would have proudly touted this or that achievement, these days the bigger question is what…