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Getting Paid for your Late Nights

I came across a very nice new site today from a new WordPress development shop, The WP Co. They seem to do custom WordPress design, PSD > WordPress, and plugin development. But that’s not what’s interesting about their site. What’s interesting is their Request a Quote page. While I was admiring the handy JavaScript work, [...] Continue →

Ghostly Ferns

I just discovered Ghostly Ferns today and I just can’t stop scrolling. Cool content, and so, so, so well designed. It seems rare to see hand-crafted blogs like this out there today. It feels like it was made 5 years ago.

Marco Arment on design culture

Demonstrate from the top that high quality and attention to detail are prioritized and appreciated above everything else, including being the first to market, having the most features, or having the most aggressive prices. If you can get those as well, that’s great, but quality will not be sacrificed to do so. Instill these values [...] Continue →

charity:water—year two

A friendly reminder that the September charity:water campaign is on. I donate through Cameron Moll’s campaign, as he tries to corale the design community to raise $35,000, almost double last year’s ambitious goal. Charity:water works to help the staggering 1 in 8 people in the world without access to clean water.

You can help.

We become what we behold

We become what we behold…we shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

—Marshall McLuhan, via Thinking for a living

Nicholas Felton on designing information graphics

My chief concern is that the finished graphic be highly scannable and easily digested. For me, this means the elimination of complicated keys and fiddly connections between labels and items. Relationships should be as direct and unadorned as possible and free of unnecessary design flourishes.

—Nicholas Felton on designing information graphics

Getting over the embarrassment of incomplete design

Well, you don’t want to show something that is weak, or poor, so you want to hold off until you get it right. And the trick is to actually stop that behavior. We show it every day, when it’s incomplete. If everybody does it, every day, then you get over the embarrassment. And when you get over the embarrassment, you’re more creative.

—Ed Catmull, Pixar President