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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

While everyone will spend today on Twitter talking about the new pricing model by Adobe, I wanted to focus more on their efforts with the web. First thing that struck me was how much I enjoyed the design. It was clean and allowed me to focus on the content. Of course I had to check [...]

If design is about how it works then I find it inexcusable when a designer puts something up that isn’t very usable at all. Design is about empathy. Sometimes it is about story-telling. It is always about the person that has to use the design. I found what I believe to be a good article, [...]

The first book on web design that I ever came across was Flash Web Design, by Hillman Curtis. Many designers in the world today don’t know about him because he wasn’t a prolific blogger or an all-star on Dribbble. He was just a man who was great at his craft and went about his business. [...]

Calendars have been around forever and it seems the only innovation that has come from them is what kind of kitty pictures to put up for August. It is amazing to think that so many people believe the standard one month at a time format is the best way to look at the year. It [...]

Alex Lin of Studio Lin gave a talk at AIGANY about the Do’s and Don’ts of graphic design. In this talk he revealed some of his successes and failures in design, production, and fabrication. The great thing about this talk is that you learn that some of his best work occurred when he had no [...]

There have been a number of articles and tweets lately about how companies are desperate to find quality designers to fill roles. If you are looking for an artist or stylist they are pretty easy to come by. Looking at Dribbble or Behance it is easy to find someone that can fit a particular style [...]

Michael Graves is a great designer. If you didn’t know that then you know that now. If you already knew that then you are very wise. I first learned about him when I came across a number of his product designs at Target. Only later would I learn that he is the ultimate designer, dabbling [...]