Considering the massive amount of time many of us spend using websites and apps for both work and play, isn’t it a wonder how foreign the process of actually creating those tools can seem to most people who aren’t directly involved in the tech industry? The truth is that building websites is…
In the tech and design sectors there’s a lot of folks working long hours, like 70+ hours a week. There’s a certain badge-of-honor-martyr-complex-thing that comes along with it. But let’s set the record straight. Here’s what long hours really mean:
Many designers, myself included, have thought, “Oh, that studio does such great work! I would love to work there.” But what does that even mean? It means they have a track-record of doing excellent work, which is great and respectable. But who’s done the great work…
Selling off the best hours of the best years of your life is one of the biggest decisions you’ll ever make (and remake).
Assuming you aren’t independently wealthy, it’s likely you need to do some sort of work-for-money exchange. Many of us…
I saw blues guitarist Jimmy Vaughn play the other night. He’s the slightly older brother of Stevie Ray Vaughn (who died in 1990). In almost comical contrast to his brother’s flare for the dramatic, Jimmy’s style is luddite. He often depends on a single finger on the fret board, the rest of…
Students and junior designers have been on my mind a lot lately. It seems many, if not most, are struggling…
Changing venues for you and your work is a critical part of discovery and creation. I imagine Neil Armstrong probably felt this in his bones. The next time you hit a rut with a piece of work, uproot it and yourself, it’ll give you a fresh perspective…
I’m currently in the middle of redesigning wearemammoth.com. It’s been nearly three years since we’ve thrown up something new, and a lot has changed in our company since. The one thing we aren’t changing is our commitment to the one page website.
