It’s not pretty presentation boards, slide decks, books, wireframes, mocks or any other “pixel-perfect” bullshit most people think of when they think of design as artifacts. This is design. This is three people sitting in a pub figuring out how …
I can’t stress enough how absolutely great it is to be able to share what I’m working on at work as I’m working on it. This is a first, though. This is the first time I’ve been able to share …
Sometimes a joke made by a coworker, an available domain name and a Saturday all line up perfectly, and you get this. Is prestigiousuniversity.biz the best, most UXey thing I’ve done lately? Nope, but it was a fun WAY to …
Site maps? Sometimes thoughts come faster than I can fumble through an Omnigraffle diagram. Sometimes, for example, you forgot your AC adapter for your laptop at home and your working out of an office where you don’t have a dedicated …
I was fortunate enough to get to jet across the pond, and all of the United States and a large part of Europe, to give a talk in Warsaw, Poland about mobile app design as part of the Firefox OS …
This is one of the first things I started working on at Mozilla, mapping the content for the Developer Hub (the project I now do UX on). How exciting to be able to write about and show images from the …
Reading through the backlog in my RSS feeds today I came across this blog post. So so so right. Now if we could just get most tech companies thinking this way we’d have jetpacks and flying cars (and hover boards!!!) …
I took a break this week from my mapping congress project to do something a bit more festive. While we were out walking around last weekend I started seeing a bunch of different “Christmas trees” made out of dowel rods …
I never encountered the “design exercise” until I started working in software. Agencies/studios never asked me to do a speculative project as part of an interview, they just wanted to see my portfolio (or on the rare and pleasant occasion, …
After some research into the existing congressional maps, I’ve begun working on visualizations that tell the story better than the sliced and diced geographic map does.