22 Panels That Always Work: Wally Wood’s Legendary Productivity Hack
Comic book artist Wally Wood’s “22 Panels That Always Work” is a legendary bit of productivity hacking. How can you reduce “noodling” in your work?
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Cloud Four’s Core Values
When Cloud Four was founded back in 2007, the founders set out a vision for the type of company they wanted to build. This has set the tone of the company since then, specifically…
Some Design Advice
A loosely organized and inexhaustive list of feedback and suggestions I frequently give designers.
Cooperative Design Systems
Strategies for when the goals of your project, team or users diverge from those of an established design system.
Homework I Gave Web Designers
From 2008 through 2010 I taught Internet Typography and Web Standards courses part-time at a local art school. One of my goals was to balance students’ understanding of the web’s constraints with its potential. Too…
Encouraging Play in Design Systems
If tomorrow someone wanted to try out a radical new idea within your design system, where would that happen?
Unsolved Problems
Is web design — or even interface design in general — a solved problem?
ALA: Adapting to Input
Today, A List Apart published a little something I wrote entitled Adapting to Input. It is truly an honor to be an author for such an esteemed publication…
Why Mobile First Design Works
Spending the last few days in New York City for Smashing Conference reminded me of an analogy for Mobile First Design that seems to resonate with people. If you’ve made your life fit in…
Client Engagement the Cloud Four Way
As part of the redesign, we’ve been trying to nail down the general positioning for our business. That is, what makes us the special unicorn that we think we are (or maybe we’re…