Words & Letters
As a design manager, I’ve looked at several hundred applications for open design roles over the last few months and I’ve noticed a series of painful missteps from the applicant pool.
50 books in 365 days In late 2016, I accepted the Goodreads Reading Challenge and decided to read 24 books in 2017. I’ve been reading more over the years and Goodreads has been my book tracker for a while, but I never set a firm goal. I did want to read more but I wasn’t really sure […]
Or, how the sausage gets made For over a year I’ve been writing/compiling a weekly design links post. This started via email at my last job. I was managing a team of awesome young designers and I felt that part of my job was to engage them in work, tools and thinking beyond our daily grind. I […]
A quick inventory of how sites are handling order lookup login Sites that do not allow guest order lookup: Amazon, Warby Parker, Zappos
Visa Checkout takes it to 11 Back in August, I wrote a detailed survey of the e-commerce payment button scene, The Sad State of Payment Buttons. One of the worst offenders was VISA and this specimen. Well, I do appreciate the crew at Visa not wanting to come in second (or second to last) and they […]
“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes” – Andy Warhol I wrote my first article on Medium back in October of 2015. I’ve been publishing on the internet for much, much longer. I’m not an internet celebrity and I don’t have millions of followers on any platform–or combined for that matter. I’m […]
It’s a damn mess and I have some theories on why I’ve been doing design work in the finance space for a long time. This wasn’t something I set out to do, it just kind of happened. My first finance gig was for firstUSA–I made banner ads. Not a glamorous job, but occasionally we got a fun […]
Design thinking, and not just ‘design thinking’ I’m on the train, leaving New York after a pretty amazing week. It was the perfect time of year to be in New York. The weather was flawless and I got to attend the 99U Conference for the third time. I’m getting spoiled by the whole thing at this point. […]
In the Fall of 1996: Architecture Department at Rhode Island School of Design According the ‘The Telegraph’ Architecture school has a drop out rate of 7.2% which puts this path of study at the 8th highest for student drop outs. I feel like that number is a little low. Architecture programs are notorisously hard and some people […]
A quick summary This is as much for me to remember as it is to share with others. I haven’t been to Smashing Conference before but I’ve been a reader of the site for a long time. What is SmashingConference? A two-day event (four if you include the workshops) for web design and development. It’s very hands-on and […]