I’ve collected and revised the essays I wrote on the Designing Devices
I was on my fifth revision of a search screen. (In my defense, it was a complicated search, with lots of variables.) The client said to me, in what might be my favorite comment of all time, “But you’re just moving stuff around!” Yes, I admitted rather sheepishly at the time, I was doing just that.
The nature of project work is that there are often periods of inactivity—both during the project (while waiting for feedback, for example) and between projects. It’s easy to piss away those times—you’re exhausted from doing the project after all—but you can also use the time productively by hunting and gathering.
This is the first time in a long time I’ve felt something that makes sense for programmers has made it into an Apple UI. There’s no way Steve Jobs signed off on this change. It’s either too complicated, executed badly, or explained poorly, and those are not things I expect from Apple design.
Designing with data should mean using data as an input to your decision-making, not as the decider alone.
I’m looking for a position leading a team of designers as a creative director, director of design/UX, or VP of design in San Francisco or nearby.
Fifty days ago, on March 1, I started a 100 Days of Design challenge. Basically, the idea is you do one design exercise once a day, every day, for 100 days. By sheer repetition, you get better at whatever it is you do; over time, you see more facets to the activity, more variations. It’s [...]
I’ve decided to offer my services as a design mentor.
Yesterday, I found myself reading Michael Bierut’s exercise he gives his graduate students at Yale: do a design exercise every day for 100 days. The same exercise, repeatedly. At the same time, I also happened to read this article by Sebastian Marshall about the importance of doing quantity, not quality, if you want to improve.
I mentioned on Twitter how I’d like to do this exercise one day, and got a challenge from Livia Labate: let’s do it now. If we start on March 1, it would be finished on June 8.
Because I’m insane, I said ok.