Announcements, From the Desk Of, Ideas, Lifestyle
Time and Timing
2020 was a year unlike any other, which made it the ideal time to go get lost in Paris. As an American designer, the timing couldn’t be better.
Your In-house Design Team Doesn’t Need a Brief
Every so often, someone in an organization gets the idea that the design team needs a brief. The reality is a brief can set a designer up for failure and ...
Rebranding Goldstar
Goldstar’s new brand goes a long way towards connecting with our specific audience. Here’s how we got there.
New Ritual “Albatross” Compressor
A vintage-style compressor that isn’t I recently finished what I’m calling the Albatross compressor, based on a Keeley 4-knob compressor. I had originally planned to build a modified Ross compressor ...
Many Designers Working as One
One of the best byproducts of a design team working in Abstract is that it allows the team to melt into one.
Design, Technology, UX, Web
The WSL has it figured out.
The World Surf League, or WSL, has made some strategic design choices that make it a blast to watch. I’m sitting here watching the Margaret River Pro, an event that ...
Apple, Apps, Design, Ideas, UX, Web
Netflix: Android, iPad, and Inbetween
Lots of people seem to be making a big deal that Netflix’s updated tablet app is coming to Android first, which, as an iPad owner, I suppose does matter somewhat. ...
Apple, Design, Ideas, Technology, Web
Hindsight, or Mobile Phones in Japan Circa 2003
There’s an article that, against all odds, I still think about quite often despite having read it eight years ago. I suppose it’s because nowadays, most of the work I’m ...
The Great Connection Hunt
Despite what we keep telling each other about how the web should work, are there are some things we should purposely hold back in the interest of letting the user ...
In Search of a Responsive Workflow
Out with the Old After listening to a 5by5 podcast featuring Ethan Marcotte about responsive web design, it became clear that we, as a profession, are struggling with a problem that ...