Posts from 2011

This year – and I suppose this is my 2011 retrospective – I’ve visited five continents, and spent around a quarter of the year overseas.

It’s time to move on, and a permanent record of our dispute isn’t useful to either party. Therefore I have removed this post.

It’s a mistake to let content drive design, just as it was to let design drive content. We mustn’t let the pendulum swing too far. If we are to go beyond mere information and style to create meaning, the two must be partners, feeding from and influencing each other.

The last few months have been far-fetched and fascinating, and there’s plenty more lined up.

Today I changed my signatures, my profiles, and my label to “digital product designer”.

A friend has been steadily redesigning his e-commerce site with the help of an external design team. But he hadn’t yet seen the bottom-line rewards he’d hoped for, so he asked for my thoughts.

Of course good writing conveys more information – both logical and emotional – but the reader isn’t the only beneficiary. Writing also makes us better thinkers.

How to irritate users, courtesy of the Daily Mail.