Category Archives: Design
My Refrigerator is Confusing
Last year my wife and I bought a new fridge. It’s big, it’s black and it holds a lot of food — it was everything we needed. It’s a single-door bottom-freezer unit and we’re very happy with it, especially when we remember what it replaced, but there’s something that’s been driving me crazy about it [...]
GoDaddy Loves Minotaurs
I recently had to renew the domain name for this site. Like many, I just go through GoDaddy because, well… I don’t know why. I never gave it any thought before, but I doubt I’ll ever do it again. The following day I just mentioned the renewal to my friend Mark at the office — [...]
The Unconscious at Work
Just last week I was telling my team leader about my design process for difficult problems: I examine the task from all the angles I can, think about possible solutions and then I go do something else for a while. Luckily he didn’t think me a lazy bastard and even knew what I meant by [...]
Overlooked Gift That Keeps on Giving
Years ago I played World of Warcraft quite a bit – back when I had considerably more free time. I’ve long stopped playing, but I still look back on it fondly. It was rarely the game itself that held my attention — it was the people and social aspects that kept me coming back so [...]
Don’t break your arm patting yourself on the back
One of the very first things I learned about working in web design is that you have to find your own gratification. The boss can only pat you on the head so often and you’d better not hold your breath waiting for every client to recognize how awesome you are. I won’t say that I [...]