It’s been two weeks since the launch of Writer for Mac, and it went off like a rocket. We sold almost 5,000 copies in two weeks. Of course, version 1.0 had some birth defects (1.01 is out now), but th

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I HIRED JASON SANTA MARIA after reading this post on his site. The year was 2004. Douglas Bowman, one of my partners on a major project, had just injured himself and was unable to work. I needed someo

May 27, 2011 Getting Started With Defensive Web Design About The Author Ian Lurie is an internet marketer and President of Portent , the agency he founded in 1995. He writes about marketing, communica

There’s a phase we go through in our maturity as designers. At first we don’t have a lot of confidence in our process, so we hide while we work. We take feedback from directors, programmers, customers

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I have a problem. I get anxious anytime I see a notification badge on my iPhone. Be it Mail, Reeder or something else, those little red circles really get under my skin. I check my email constantly, a

A slide from my South by Southwest presentation : These are questions we ask each other before, during, and sometimes after we work on something. That something can be as small as a couple-hour projec

I have never had the privilege(?) to see a a chicken after its head was cut off, nor do I ever want to. What I used to picture growing up was a bloody, but oddly comical scene, of a headless chicken a

Yesterday I [wrote](http://shawnblanc.net/2011/05/writing-a-weblog-full-time/) about how easy it is to over-think and over-edit the things I write about and link to on the site. This is also something

Stanley Kubrick wrote the following gushing letter of praise in 1960 to the man he considered to be “the greatest film-maker at work today,” and who he later cited as a major influence on his work: In

A report released by the Nielsen Norman Group shows that many iPad apps are confusing users by being too subtle about the gestures needed to navigate them, and some are not sensitive enough to the acc

The internet did not replace television, which did not replace cinema, which did not replace books. E-books aren’t going to replace books either. E-books are books, merely with a different form. The e

It’s OK not to have anything to write about. But if you want to call yourself a writer, you kind of have to write. So, even if you have no idea what to put on that page, just sit down and write the fi

SteveStreza: My answer on Quora to: What technology is a good basic introduction into the field of programming and interaction design? http://qr.ae/dmxA

Hashbangs . Yes, again. This is important, dammit! When the topic first surfaced, prompted by Mike’s post on the subject , there was a lot of discussion. For a great impartial round-up, I highly recom

You won’t know this unless you’ve sent Mark Zuckerberg mail the old-fashioned way, but the Facebook CEO has a personalized stationery set designed in-house by one of the company’s designers, Ben Barry