Posts tagged “process”

Manifesto

A manifesto – the suggestion that anyone can summarise anything accurately and meaningfully in ten bullet points – has something rather fanatical about it. My knee-jerk reaction to anything with the word “Manifesto” in its title is a skeptical snort. …

dConstruct Round-up

So I got back from dConstruct and a nice weekend in London yesterday afternoon. And since Friday evening I’ve been trying to think of a suave way to wriggle out of my promise. There are no new interviews, and …

Designing the Message

Just before Stowe Boyd asked me to blog on /message last week, he sent me this tweet:

hey bro. Nice Tumblr template. I am interested in a reworking of my /Message typepad stuff. Ideas? Costs?

Stowe and I met, …

Mickey’s 10 Commandments

Who could possibly know more than Disney about guiding, exciting and entertaining people? Interface designers can learn a lot from “Mickey’s 10 Commandments”, developed by Walt Disney Imagineering President, Marty Sklar. (commandments in bold, my comments beneath)

  1. Know your

Linkbag of Stuff That Works

Ryan Singer at RailsConf

The most enthusiastic, positive, funny web-guy I know was interviewed at RailsConf about the being a designer who can write code, and “touching the magic wand”, which isn’t nearly as pornographic as it sounds. Have a