I have no idea who “Elizabeth M” or “design guy” is, but I trusted them (and others) in their recommendation of the typography book Thinking With Type. Same with “SplitGrin” or “sonicdescent”, but based partly on their recommendations, I picked up some Jack Daniels Barrel Aged Blackbeerd Imperial Stout from Coast Brewing. Why? Well, for [...]

If you’re used to one, you better understand how the other works too.

We might forget about this sometimes in our on-demand, widgetized, app-crazed lives, but it’s true. While micro-interactions are certainly key, it’s important to not lose sight of the big picture. The best micro-interactions not only work well with the user, they work well with the other micro-interactions.

Another idea spurred by that Clay Shirky post I mentioned a little while ago. I think a big takeaway here is that we have to be careful when we look for or label something “revolutionary”. Mainly because if something really is revolutionary, then it’s definitely going to screw things up, at least for a little [...]

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