Words About Design

A model for helping people become better designers

Don’t just do design, practice it.

Skeumorphism is dead. Long live the Digital Metaphor

About limited functions and unlimited freedom

Three culinary metaphorical assumptions on designing a good interface

Chrome to content transition

a conversation on design, a look into a possible future, and the value of design beyond it’s utility. 

Design is being mindful and thinking deeply about who you are designing for not “creating something pretty”

where ideas are smashed, self esteems are murdered, and being a leader means being an island? 

Tim Ferriss presents a systematic way to hack “expert” skills.

Richard Koch on applying the 80/20 principle to life

Al Worden on Flying to the Moon and Coming Back to Earth

I always knew of the importance of visual thinking and had taken advantage of information graphics to speed up my learning curve on various…

In the forest, Ekalavya diligently treated his clay image of Drona as his teacher and practiced the yoga of the bow, observing strict…

Faster, lighter, and more focused on what matters.

I’m hooked on Medium. Stories here are still alive.

Takeaways for keeping your interface friendly to the friendliest of people you know. Your mother.

Three common problems that trip up your creative process, and how diagrams will help you solve them

Design vs. Functionality

Your eyes were designed to explore a rich and physical world.

Is flat design just a fad or is it progress? 

My morning starts off with my favorite cup of tea, email, some meetings and then it’s time to fire up photoshop.

Why I hope the E.ON energy saving experiment by Sweden’s Forsman Bodenfors wins big at Cannes.