Category: Blog Posts


  • Are you subtly subverting your own brand by choosing a common Front End Framework? It is often overlooked by proponents of these systems that they are equal parts User Interface Convention and Brand Expression. Although they have benefits, they have costs as well.

  • The problem is not that we can’t predict bad behavior online, it’s that we can’t agree on what’s bad.

  • This morning, I was chatting with a colleague about a contentious interaction with a stakeholder in which they asserted decision rights over our work. I think I surprised her with my response: “It’s just like working with clients. When it’s your money, and you have to live with the outcomes, you get to make the…

  • There is an almost certainly apocryphal proverb that goes something like, “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together,” and I think of it often when trying to take on large/complex projects, because I see this thinking get a lot of teams in trouble. One of the…

  • Update: Upon re-reading this post, I decided that I was being a dick. So, I’m editing it, to be clearer, and less of a dick. Last night, I had a simultaneously exhilarating and frustrating conversation with a group of designers that I know through AIGA. It was the night before the national conference started in…

  • A Batman a day #170

    A Batman a day #170

  • A Batman a day #169

    A Batman a day #169

    Drawn with my fingers, on my iPhone, with ProCreate Pocket

  • A Batman a day #168

    A Batman a day #168

    This one is by a friend of mine, while I was on stage at the Big Design conference. Thanks Chris!

  • A Batman a day 166

    A Batman a day 166