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Weekly Design Links – 03/10/20

“We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.” ― Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed

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Weekly Design Links – 03/03/20

“The practice of art isn’t to make a living. It’s to make your soul grow.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

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Weekly Design Links – 02/25/20

“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.” — Richard Feynman

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Weekly Design Links: 2/18/20

“Home sickness is a bit like sea sickness. You don’t know how awful it is until you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.”––Roald Dahl A little under the weather this week, but the show must go on. Enjoy the links, […]

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Design Work

E-Commerce UX: Order Status Login

A quick inventory of how sites are handling order lookup login Sites that do not allow guest order lookup: Amazon, Warby Parker, Zappos

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Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Worse in Payment Buttons

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 […]

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The Emotional Rollercoaster of Going Viral

“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 […]

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The Sad State of Payment Buttons

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 […]

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99U Conference: 2017

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. […]

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Smashing Conference SF: 2017

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 […]