Jay-Z on the practice field

Jay-Z portrait by Alberto Russo.

Last train to Doucheville

Yesterday I stumbled upon a link on Twitter to a press release sent out by Riser Media, a SLC agency with a roster of high profile clients and an impressive portfolio. Seriously? A press release?

Make your app more personal

They key with any website or application is emotion: the more your users get attached to your site, the more enjoyable their experience will be and the more likely they are to use it. Here are 5 ways to make your site or app more personal.

Front-end superheroes

Neutron Interactive, a Salt Lake City web marketing agency, recently launched an inspiring take on finding talented people on the web. Faced with the dilemma of too many Microsoft Word template resumes — a pervasive and bewildering reality amongst designers, one I’ll surely address in future rant — CEO Dan Caffee and Lead Developer Zach Holmquist [...]

What’s your vice?

I had the pleasure of sitting in on an interview at work this week for a design position up in here.  I was surprised at how bored I was with all the qualifications and skills and experience.  The guy — who was fully qualified — showed almost no emotion until I asked him what he [...]

Adam Schefter and the personal brand

Adam Schefter is an ESPN reporter.  One of the good ones.  One of the ones you see in the ticker on TV saying “as reported by ESPN’s Adam Schefter.”  In journalism speak, that means something.   Scooping, or being the first to report, a hot story can lead a reporter to being known as an inside [...]

Saul Bass: the designer should care about design

A few readers misunderstood my last post to mean I was anti-design, or anti-aesthetic.  My point couldn’t be further from the truth (I am, after all, a designer).
My point is:

a website is far inferior to the actual product/message/service it advertises,
no one cares about websites, and
no one else cares about quality.

Tonight Scrivs sent over this clip from [...]

37signals is doing it right with Sortfolio

I’ve been impressed with 37signals’ Sortfolio web design directory since they launched.  Well executed, super simple, great business model, all great hallmarks of a 37s product.
But what’s really inspiring is their promotion and marketing technique.  The site isn’t cheap by way of webapps, but its a steal for promotion:  just $99 a month.  Like all [...]

37 Signals: All the wrong reasons for Stack Overflow’s VC chase

David Heinemeier Hansson nails it:
“A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else. If Joel and co. can negotiate a deal with Sand Hill road to give them a nice payout as part of the deal, this might well be even better than trying [...]