The Year of the Ugly Unicorn
I have always considered myself a “designer who codes”. I enjoy that aspect of the web, even while in a purely visual design role. Not too long ago, in a previous visual design position I…
Philosophy, Page 4
Mood Boards (Neither Bored Nor Moody)
Our team had a set of defining characteristics and was almost ready to start redesigning cloudfour.com. But before we dived into element collages (more on that in a future post), we wanted to…
Shared Visions and Sticky Notes
When we started redesigning cloudfour.com, I knew I wanted the entire team to feel a sense of ownership in the end result. To establish an inclusive design direction without…
The web’s lost opportunity to be on TV
Apple announced the new Apple TV yesterday. As many expected, it didn’t come with Safari. What was unexpected is that it doesn’t appear to have WebKit at all. The utility of WebKit for…
What I’m watching for in the new Apple TV
We’re about an hour away from the Apple event where they will announce the new Apple TV. Here are the things I’m going to be watching for based on my time researching Smart TVs, game…
The feature phone era of TVs ends next week
Three years ago after writing Head First Mobile Web with Lyza, I was burnt out on mobile and wanted to do something different. So I decided to start researching the web on TVs. TVs…
Will someone do this on mobile?
A frequent question that product owners face is whether not someone will do a particular activity on a mobile device or not. In my experience, people often arrive at two answers based on context. When…
Project Management is BS: an inspirational meditation for modern PMs
This past week, I had the luxury of attending the Digital Project Management conference in Austin. If you are a project manager and you haven’t heard about this group of awesome digital PMs, you…
Own Your Process: Ending Agile Guilt
What process do you use for your projects? Agile? Waterfall? Scrum? Extreme? A little bit of everything? Join the club. I had the pleasure of spending some time Saturday with a number of talented colleagues…
Retooling
GitHub introduced a new text editor called Atom last week, and reactions (at least in my Twitter feed) seem divided between fervent desire and snide disregard. For every few people shamelessly begging for invites,…