Looking for designers or developers for your next project? Black Pixel offers design, development, and testing services backed by unrivaled experience. Hire Us Shortly after the launch of the Mule Rad

Attending university—public or private—now requires not only a huge investment of time from students, but also capital. It means starting out a career saddled with tens of thousands of dollars of debt

Why I Taught My Daughter To Code (A Little) Literacy Imagine a world in which very few people knew how to read or write. You kept to certain parts of town because you couldn't read a map or a street s

There’s been lots of buzz on the topic of whether or not you should learn to code. As an engineer, I don’t have unbiased thoughts on the matter. I tweeted Jeff Atwood’s piece because, well, I agree th

So, The Shape of Design is done. Well, kind of. Today, all the pages were glued into their hardcover jackets. Tomorrow, the books will be put in boxes and shipped to a warehouse in Portland. Next week, I’ll sign a bunch of them and stuff God knows how many envelopes. Then, thousands of books will…

By Ole Begemann More about me and contact info June 5, 2012 Other articles in this series: (1) Steve Jobs on the File System (2) Steve Jobs on Native Apps (3) Steve Jobs Confirmed Native iPhone Apps i

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May 31, 2012 ...Learn TDD with Codemanship Let's Not Call It "Computer Science" If We Really Mean "Computer Programming" I've probably mentioned this before, but I felt I needed to clarify my thoughts

We all know, I think, that advertising has to grow more frequent and obtrusive to remain effective. In the early days, websites would just put a banner at the top of the page. Then people started ment

“We’re going to double down on secrecy on products.” — Tim Cook, yesterday at the D10 conference I’ve long compared Apple punditry to Cold War-era Kremlinology — to predict or analyze an opaque, secre

My boss tweeted a screenshot of the Things 1.8.5 iOS update, which I have included below. I remarked on twitter to them that this is an example of why developers should not be the ones to write the “what’s new in this version” copy for iOS app updates. They replied that the developers didn’t write…

@buzz I think this analysis resonates with your Birdfeed experience: http://t.co/lpqtFQlK (via @mrmachinetool)

Following Tim Cook’s appearance at the D10 conference I’ve heard murmors questioning the future of iAd. Specifically Tim was asked by a Google exec about Apple’s advertising business, he replied that

I have a profound appreciation for well-designed things, and I feel this appreciation helps me write better software. Naturally, this wasn’t always the case. No one really teaches you why design matter in school, and even in the software industry of New Brunswick, there was nary a designer to be…

Lighten Up 21 March 2012 Recently, I was asked why a woman that loves coding would ever leave the field. It's true: at one point in my life, I decided that coding would be something I'd do only in private. I was only slowly pulled back into the fold. Let me tell you, I love coding. Been doing it…

Kill The Settings, Build Opinionated Software Posted on in Application Design , iPhone Your app has too many settings, too many things to tweak. API endpoints? Colors of the rainbow? 100 different fon

Up: Colorless Green Ideas [] « ^ » « T » Thursday, January 6, 2011 The Web Is a Customer Service Medium I look forward to your feedback. I sometimes chat with people in the book- and magazine-publishi

Over the past two years, I’ve been working with my partner Wolf on a Mac Twitter client called Hibari . To celebrate the long-awaited release of version 1.5 last week, I’ve decided to share the design philosophies, character flaws, and mental instabilities that have resulted in the Hibari you see…

Who are you, and what do you do? I'm Jack Cheng , a writer and designer living in Brooklyn. I co-founded a digital product development studio called Disrupto . Our latest project is Memberly , a platf

Fair warning: this is a blog post about automated cat feeders. Sort of. But bear with me, because I'm also trying to make a point about software. If you have a sudden urge to click the back button on

British journalist Charles Arthur's post "Newspapers: why fungibility means they’re really really really really really REALLY screwed" shines a light on a basic disconnect between reality and the cent

Home Contact Browse all the articles FEATURED ARTICLES: Inside the WallsRegrets of the Dying REGRETS OF THE DYING For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks…