Posts from
May, 2008

Does Web Design Have a Future?

May. 29, 2008 in design

Mathew (with one “t”) Patterson wrote a thoughtful post called “A new mind for web designers?”. In it he poses and tries to answer these questions:

How do web designers fit into this new world? When the html and CSS can…

Chessenger

May. 29, 2008 in games

Like to play chess? A friend’s been experimenting with Adobe Air, and has quickly built a little async chess client called Chessenger. He’s not much into the social net scene though, so I’m banging the drum for him.

Cheesenger’s cool:…

Top-Down Boxes or Bottom-Up Piles?

May. 24, 2008 in ideas, interface

A chat with Ryan Singer after the next08 has been bouncing around in my head for a few days. We got onto some basic info architecture assumptions which define almost all sites my company makes, and most sites in the web. The…

60 Second Flip

May. 23, 2008 in video

Sometimes everything just comes together. I fell deeply in love with my Flip videocamera about 10 seconds after taking it out of the box last Friday. A few days later I fell in love with Dean’s 60 second film. Dean…

A First & Next08: Notes of a Public Speaking N00b

May. 19, 2008 in conferences, design, process

Last Thursday I stood up with Leisa Reichelt in front of at least 100 (could’ve been more, didn’t have time to count) intelligent people (an assumption I know, but I’m an optimist) at the next08 conference and we told them what we…