YOUR SHELF
A shelf of things worth returning to.
Notes on work, products, design, marketing, and the occasional detour through life.
RECENT
What I have been writing lately.
Work
What a one-day website can—and cannot—teach you about speed
“We built the website in one day” is an attractive story.
Work
Form versus function is the wrong argument
Design conversations often place beauty and usefulness on opposite sides of a table.
Work
Small teams can do serious work—if they remove the wrong layers
Small teams are often described through what they lack.
Work
What a good agency actually sells
A website agency appears to sell a website.
Work
Client control can create chaos
“You will be able to edit the website yourself” sounds like an uncomplicated promise.
Work
The CMS is the invisible architecture of a website
Most people meet a website through pages.
WORK
What a one-day website can—and cannot—teach you about speed
“We built the website in one day” is an attractive story.
Work
8 min read
Form versus function is the wrong argument
Design conversations often place beauty and usefulness on opposite sides of a table.
Work
8 min read
Small teams can do serious work—if they remove the wrong layers
Small teams are often described through what they lack.
Work
7 min read
PERSONAL
Personal
Good taste is not a strategy
Taste can tell you that something is wrong before you can explain why.
Personal
How to stay creative when creativity becomes your job
Creative work changes when someone is waiting for it.
Personal
Why restraint is a creative act
It is easier to prove that you had an idea than to prove that you rejected one.
ARCHIVE
What a one-day website can—and cannot—teach you about speed
“We built the website in one day” is an attractive story.
Work
8 min read
Form versus function is the wrong argument
Design conversations often place beauty and usefulness on opposite sides of a table.
Work
8 min read
Small teams can do serious work—if they remove the wrong layers
Small teams are often described through what they lack.
Work
7 min read
What a good agency actually sells
A website agency appears to sell a website.
Work
8 min read
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