Ad Blocking and the Future of the Web

YOUR SITE may soon be collateral damage in a war between Silicon Valley superpowers. By…

Designer Blindness

If an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if…

The Year in Design

• Mobile is today’s first screen. So design responsively, focusing on content and structure first.

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Medium?

Why are we afraid of Medium? How does it differ from all previous…

Pinterest giveth, and Pinterest taketh away

AS MY design career has taken on more and more strategic and managerial freight…

Save “Save For Web”

TWENTY years or so ago, Adobe Photoshop was, as its name suggests, primarily a tool for professional commercial…

Jesus and the Uber Driver

Jesus would walk.

Do Not Go Gentle into That iTunes Store

AT HOME, sick with a cold and bored, my daughter buys a single packet of “My School Dance”…

The vanishing personal site

Our personal sites, once our primary points of online presence, are becoming sock drawers for displaced first-person content. We are witnessing the disappearance of the all-in-one, carefully designed personal site containing professional information, links, and brief bursts of…