Journal

There are only a handful of reality TV shows that I watch, and one of my favorites is Project Runway. After watching many seasons of it, including the All-Stars ones, I noticed an interesting quirk among certain designers. Fashion is something that has always eluded me. In high school I ran with a kind of …

There has been some interesting discussion around content that scrolls versus content that is paginated lately. The initial discourse seems to have been prompted by Apple’s inclusion of a continuous vertical scroll feature in the latest version of iBooks. Prior to that, however, many websites have adopted the idea of an infinite scroll when displaying …

Recently, the team members were asked to consider their future growth with the company. We were told to prepare a plan for the next year, a plan that focused on opportunities we wanted to have, or projects we wanted to explore. We were charged with being both concrete with our goals, and provocative. As a …

Sometimes a simple question can help shift what you thought was understood. “How to I backup my iPhone?” “Well, you could either plug the USB cord into a computer and backup locally, or enable iCloud backups.” “Okay, but where is the iCloud?” “…” I was stumped. I knew she didn’t want to know that physically, …

A recent project has allowed me to explore the world of icon fonts, and what I have found has me excited at the possibilities. An icon font is a set of vector images that take the place of letters within a font. For example, an icon font might have the letter “s” mapped to the …

Today somebody asked me for a laptop recommendation. Actually, what they asked was, “Tell me which laptops are good at Walmart or Best Buy.” I have purchased many products from both of these establishments, but one thing I have never purchased from either of them is a computer. Instead, I argued very strongly that this …