Things We Write
By Joshua on April 07 2010
Here's the latest and greatest from the world of design and the web...
Less Talk, More Rock
In this beautifully illustrated post, game dev superbrothers argues that more often than not, talk gets in the way of doing something awesome.
Revisiting Conspicuous …
By Joshua on March 15 2010
Working in web design can feel incredibly confining at times. Header goes here. Sidebar here. Duplicate your base HTML and CSS templates. Rinse. Repeat.
In a field so governed by conventions, what can we do to breathe life and originality into our work? Focus on just one thing.
A …
By Joshua on January 29 2010
Selected from our ever growing stack of RSS feeds, here are three great articles we came across this week.
In Defense of Lorem Ipsum
Good old lorem ipsum text has been taking quite a thrashing in the design community lately. But Karen McGrane argues that it's not all bad, …
By Joshua on January 27 2010
In a recent article, chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov reflected on an experiment designed to create the most competitive chess games ever played.
In 2005, the online chess-playing site Playchess.com hosted what it called a "freestyle" chess tournament in which anyone …
By Joshua on January 02 2009
Those of you subscribed to my RSS feed probably haven't noticed, but I've moved to a new site. I'd love to get your thoughts on the design (though I'll probably be tweaking things for a while).
There are more changes in the works as well. Thanks for …
By Joshua on December 10 2008
Have you ever wondered how to deal with people who leave blatantly self-promoting comments? Try replacing their links with this.
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By Joshua on September 09 2008
If you've been in your feedreader at all this morning, you may have noticed a lot of people talking about a new blogger-run nonprofit called Train for Humanity. I think that's totally awesome, particularly since I had the chance to design their website. :-)
What is Train …