Category: Design
Mar 242006
8 Web Design Warm Fuzzy Feelings. When I checked this blog’s design in IE for the first time and saw that I didn’t have anything to fix, I went to my fridge and had a beer. I don’t know if that will ever happen again.
Feb 122006
Interaction Design
Garret Dimon’s post on front-end architects is a good read, I think. But I’m usually biased toward articles that suggest that the skills I possess might become incredibly valuable in the very near future.
I’m not sure I like the term ‘front-end architect,’ but now I’m just being a weenie. I don’t even have a [...]
Dec 242005
Vigorous Typing
From The Elements of Typographic Style, my new favorite reference volume:
Most writing and typography … remain contentedly abstract, like a theater script or a musical score. The script of Macbeth does not need to be bloodstained and spattered with tears; it needs to be legible. And the score of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata does [...]
Aug 22005
Sole Proprietorship
I swear I’m never going to feel like an adult. I don’t think adulthood exists outside others’ perceptions of you.
Come September 1 I’ll be unemployed. Or, rather, self-employed. The grant that pays my salary here at the Dana Center has not been renewed. I’ve known for about a month, but I [...]
