2015-05-12T17:12:33.962Z
Web design and development is an industry in flux. It's caught somewhere between the brave new world of bleeding edge technology where new ground is broken daily and a more traditional media with processes and management in control of what gets built…
Read In Production2015-04-12T17:12:33.962Z
Web design suffers from trends. When something nice or clever or innovative comes along web designers and developers have a horrible tendancy to bend the new technique to everything without regard to whether or not it is appropriate. In the early…
Read Trendy Web Design2015-03-12T17:12:33.962Z
"The design is not the website." Learn that. Repeat it. Say it to yourself over and over until it's ingrained in everything you produce as a web developer, designer, copy writer or producer. "The design is not the website." "The design is not the…
Read Responsive Content2015-02-12T17:12:33.962Z
Good design is built on a portfolio of psychological lessons. Why something works well is always because it works the way we expect it to. It doesn't surprise us. It delights us. As human beings are illogical creatures that do things in daft ways…
Read Can Developers Design?2015-01-12T17:12:33.962Z
People are very easy to confuse. A few too many options, an illogical order of items to pick from, a process that deviates from the cultural or generational norm - any of these things will quickly lead to frustration, annoyance, complaints and…
Read Land of Confusion2014-12-12T17:12:33.962Z
About two thousand five hundred years ago a chap called Socrates would wander around the markets of Athens bothering people. By all accounts he was an ugly, short, unhygenic man who asked impertinent and tiresome questions that few people really…
Read Asking The Questions2014-11-12T17:12:33.962Z
Futurology, futurism, future studies. All terms for the same thing - predicting what's coming next. Not in a mysterious way, reading tea leaves or gazing in to a crystal balls, but in a much more practical sense. Using a probability model and basing…
Read Predicting the future2014-10-12T17:12:33.962Z
It's taken me a few years to realise this as a developer, but I've learned that public speakers and software developers aren't necessarily the same thing. That sounds sort of obivous. In all the years I've been making software I've always thought I…
Read The so called "dark matter developer".