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Josh Long

Josh Long is a writer and designer with three books under his belt: Execute, Design Evolution & Jenius. He also co-hosts the Happy Monday podcast. Twitter: @joshlong

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March 21, 2013 in Learn

Swiss Miss & Why Forrest Gump Would Have Killed It in Design

Over this past weekend, I watched the live stream of Tina Roth Eisenberg (a.k.a. “Swiss Miss”) giving her keynote speech at SXSW. She spoke about her experiences building her website and her amazing businesses: Studio Mates, Tattly, and Creative Mornings….

March 12, 2013 in Learn

10 Things to Know Before Designing for the Web

The world of web design is one of the most beautiful and rewarding spaces you could possibly enter into. With so many options and such a great community, your path as a web designer is uncharted and wide open. With…

March 7, 2013 in Learn

I Have No Idea What I'm Doing with Responsive Web Design

Over the past few months I’ve had the privilege of spending some quality time with some of the web’s most talented designers. Whether over Skype, on the Happy Monday podcast, or on the upcoming Treehouse Chat show, I’ve been listening…

November 5, 2012 in Learn

Productivity is About Constraints and Concentration

The fact that there is only so much time in a day is a sobering thought. Many times we are left scratching our heads after a long day wondering, “what did I even get done today?”. Saying “No” The one…

October 31, 2012 in Learn

How I Wrote a Book in 3 Days

On Thursday October 11th, Drew Wilson was having a conversation with his friend and colleague Adam Stacoviak before they recorded their weekly podcast, The Industry. Adam ranted about his frustrations with Paypal (as all of us have at some point),…

October 16, 2012 in Learn

The Ultimate Resource

In a world full of tools, frameworks, tutorials, articles, code editors, and Github, there is still one resource that is more important to the web professional than any other… time. Time is the ultimate resource. The problem with time is…

September 25, 2012 in Learn

I Don’t Speak Your Language: Frontend vs. Backend

“I Don’t Speak Your Language” will give you a quick overview of tech terms in our industry. Knowing these terms will help you in your communications and allow you to build better products more efficiently. There has been a lot…

September 20, 2012 in Learn

The Shift

Humans are interesting creatures. We have this innate yearning to build things. It’s what separates us from other species. It’s in our DNA. We love to make things, express ourselves through art, write the perfect song, compose the perfect story….

September 19, 2012 in Learn

Turning Pro

There comes a time in every web professional’s life when they are faced with the harsh reality that they aren’t “shipping” anything. Sure they talk about web design or development, they may know a few CSS tricks or a few…

September 17, 2012 in Community

An Interview with Twitter’s Yaron Schoen

Yaron Schoen is the Lead Designer at Twitter’s New York office, a great user interface designer, and someone that has many enviable talents. One thing you’ll notice about the great designers of the web is that they all have multiple…

September 14, 2012 in Learn

One More Thing to Consider Before Getting the iPhone 5

Well it’s here. Yet another beautiful iPhone release from the wonderful people at Apple. Countless hours of productivity have been lost over the last few days, and just this morning millions of hours of sleep were forfeited in the name…

September 12, 2012 in Learn

Remembering Bill Moggridge 1943-2012

This week the world lost one of its true design pioneers and most sincere human beings. Bill Moggridge was the true embodiment of design and contributed to its advancement more than almost any other designer of his time. Bill not…

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