Cooking Up a Design

Ryan Freitas, whose culinary wisdom I can personally vouch for, just shared some insights into his idea that designers can learn a lot from the discipline of...

Why Is My Blog So Ugly?

Donnie asks , “But why is your blog soooo damn ugly man?” And the answer is, because I am a lousy designer. I’ll probably be updating the site to use the spiffy...

You can only skip the formalities if you've already been introduced.

I was writing earlier about the smart presentation of information in the excerpt from Steven Johnson’s Everything Bad Is Good For You that was published last...

redesign comments

I’d been playing with a redesign concept a few months ago that I never got around to finishing, so I thought I’d put it up for comments from all of you, and...

I'm going to have to

I’m going to have to redesign again soon to incorporate this picture I’ve wanted to use on my blog for ages. But until then, here’s the picture: