Business Logs

Of course I feel funny posting this since I’m only 23 (lifetime achievement!!) but my friend Jason Santa Maria had a great entry that got me thinking. Basically a design class in a college somewhere was asked to evaluate Jason’s site and the responses were really interesting. Interesting in that I remember being [...]

What would the start of the week be without a little design reflection? Starting today I’m creating a new category called “Design Hot Or Not” where I pit two site designs up against each other in a no-holds-barred reader opinion boxing match. In today’s crystal ball we examine two new site designs: [...]

…and of course they’re sent to Pimp Daddy Douglas, who else? These screenshots are stored on my Flickr account for quick retrieval but originally came from Valleywag.com. It looks as though silverorange is still doing design duties, and the new sections are a reality. Enjoy!

About two months ago, Jason told me that he and his team at 37signals were working on a calendar. We talked for a bit about how other calendar apps suck a whole lot, and how he (and I) felt it necessary to finally build one that introduced clean design and a quality user experience [...]

My buddy Doug Bowman is headed to Google. Doug — who I believe to be the best designer in our industry — was snatched up by Google to lead all their design efforts across all their products. This position wasn’t around before this announcement, it was a special position created just for Doug. [...]

TechCrunch has redesigned.
I debated writing about this, not because I didn’t think it was important to talk about, but because I’m very sure that the design did not look like this when Rachel presented it to him. Rachel does very fine work (I’ve spoken highly of her work on other occasions), her recent work [...]

After writing the previous entry, I emailed with designer Naina Redhu who is based in India and faces both similar and very different pressures from her clients, simply because of the way clients think about “sending work to India.” Even though a project in India will probably be cheaper than in the United States, [...]

It is a fantastic time to be a designer.
I have never seen the design-for-hire industry so saturated with work in my entire life. Almost every single of one of my designer friends (who either are partnered with a few other people, or do all freelance work) are completely and hopelessly booked up with client [...]

Like most designers, I do my design comps (prototypes) in Photoshop. And also like most designers, I’m a typophile and am obsessed with the best looking type I can achieve in my designs. After all these years, I do believe the one thing that irks me most about Photoshop is the way it [...]

A quickie post for this holiday weekend, my favorite sites right now:

Dangergraphics.com is just nasty. I’ve loved that site for awhile now — the illo touches, iconography, and slick Lucida Grande typographic stylings are just fantastic. Jason was even kind enough to drop 9rules into his favorite links.
Wolfgang’s Bartelme Design has that Mac [...]