Yesterday I got asked on Twitter if this is a custom design. I guess you could consider it one because I coded it up and “designed” it myself, but I had to chuckle at the question because there really isn’t that much to the design of any of the sections on this site. I try [...]

It seems like yesterday I was lamenting the fact that so many Twitter Bootstrap sites look like Twitter Bootstrap sites. It is kind of understandable because Bootstrap is being used as a framework to get an idea up and out the door and most people that use it are developers who might not want to [...]

Doesn’t matter the resolution, this site is beautiful. We’re Stry, a new type of news organization. We don’t care much about big headlines or news of the day, and we’re not easily distracted. We’re just a band of reporters in pursuit of great storytelling. We tell stories about the issues that affect our lives. Works [...]

There are consequences to being the first one out the door with a new design idea. You might get a ton of praise, but it also takes a lot of time for people to understand what you are doing. Usually this is because there are established design paradigms in a person’s head and when you [...]

Every day I wake up and I see inspiration all around me. This might not be positive inspiration. Sometimes it is negative inspiration where I see something that could be done better and I think of how I would design it. Because of this I’m already planning in my head how I am going to [...]

At my current job, I’m a Senior Product Manager. That title is a bit a misnomer because in reality I’m really a designer. Even that label might throw people off because I don’t handle the visual design of the product at all. I blueprint it out so to speak as well as do a ton [...]

A complementary site made for the Hunger Games. This site is wonderful on so many levels. The feel of the site gives it an rustic, but futuristic look. The content matches the design. The little details all come together nicely. My only beef would be the terrible movie times ribbon at the top, but I [...]

Today I was fortunate enough to have an article of mine published over at Smashing Magazine called You Design It, They Do It. The premise is that so often we try to figure out why people act the way they do when they are on our designs when the answer is pretty obvious: when designed [...]

Undesign and minimalism. They seem to be terms that some people enjoy using when it comes to designs that don’t offer six fonts families and 39 unique colors. More recently on a very popular web design blog, there was an article about undesigning your portfolio. Curious as to what undesign meant I had myself a [...]

Snake the Planet! takes the classic Snake game and adopts it to the MPU urban canvas. Each level is generated based on the architecture of the building it is projected onto. Windows, doors and signs become the boundaries and obstacles in the game as animated objects collide with and bounce off them using real-time physics [...]