Craft

“Can you make sure they add sounds to the next version?” I’m standing in an aisle of a Wal-Mart in suburban Florida, scrambling to open up my notebook as the rest of my team walks out the door onto the bus. I’m still not entirely sure what’s

I like reading books written by chefs and food critics. One common theme is that they bemoan what happens to their social lives — nobody wants to cook for a famous chef or critic, so the dinner party invitations dry up. Who’s going to cook a meatloaf for Ruth Reichl?

So much of design is about deciding how to categorize things properly. The user doesn’t care if we’ve designed the prettiest screen in the world – if the content isn’t arranged logically, if the navigation is senseless and the layout unintuitive, it won’t matter how much lipstick

Great design is often invisible – ideally, we never even notice it. Consequently, we rarely think about many of the designed things we encounter every day. Consider the road system. Street lights, stop signs, and the ubiquitous yellow lines fade into the background of our consciousness while we drive, yet they

Nobody likes being scrolljacked. You scroll down the page, and something unexpected happens. The scroll speed is abnormal, the behavior doesn’t map to the action, or some other nastiness takes place. To me, the worst is when you scroll down a little and an entire new pane of content

I don’t tend to like design fads, but despite all the naysaying on Twitter, I don’t think circular avatars are terrible. Here’s why: * They are helpful differentiators. Most information on the web is presented in boxes. By placing avatars in circles, it sets them apart from raw