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,…
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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…
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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…
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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?”….
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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