Posts filed under “ideas”
Are You Publishing or Gardening?
From the time Sumerians first scratched pictographs into clay tablets, we’ve created content by making our thoughts physical, be it on stone, sheepskin or paper. That’s around 5000 years of sealing our ideas in atoms, which are pretty resistant to change. No surprise that so many people still think that way about their sites after […]
Read on...Stowe Boyd Lays Down the Law
Stowe Boyd responded to a typical re-hash of the “connectedness = overload = falling productivity” argument against social media, but to be honest, the argument (yawn) wasn’t nearly as interesting as Stowe’s response. It’s a lovely visionary rant about a future most people can’t even imagine, from a guy who sounds like he’s been there. […]
Read on...What’s “Design” Mean to You?
Leisa Reichelt calls herself a designer. Stowe Boyd calls himself a designer, too. Ryan Singer says he’s also a designer. Zeldman talks about design all the time. I don’t mean to suggest for even a second that Leisa, Stowe, Ryan and Jeffrey aren’t designers. They’re just four people who, although they all work in the […]
Read on...Top-Down Boxes or Bottom-Up Piles?
A chat with Ryan Singer after the next08 has been bouncing around in my head for a few days. Photo by A30_Tsitika We got onto some basic info architecture assumptions which define almost all sites my company makes, and most sites in the web. The more we explored the idea, the more both of us […]
Read on...They Love it Live
Early last year I lost a few extremely creative and intelligent colleagues, which was sad. What wasn’t sad at all was why they left–to work on a project which inspired and excited them all to the point that they’ve rarely spoken about anything else since. And now, finally, after plenty of sweat and stress, they’ve […]
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