As a product designer, you have many roles to fill. Strategist, UX designer, front-end dev, and marketer to name a few. The smaller your team (maybe your “team” is just you), the greater the number of

Send beautiful email newsletters. Built with creative professionals in mind, Campaign Monitor gives designers and other creatives the tools to send great looking, responsive email newsletters. Intervi

Craig Mod Aug 18, 2014 · 7 min read We’re making a book. The margins are important. Do you know how important? CRAIG MOD I saw a film recently on an airplane that made me cry. The film was a love stor

I like to think that there was once a point in time, in this country or the world, where humanity prevailed — and I also like to think that the ‘majority-rule’ screwed it all up by trying to be ‘fair’

Stewart is hungry. He's munching on potatoes smothered in chicken fat drippings, sitting by a long metal table that once served as a gurney in the morgue at the Treasure Island Naval Base. It's a prom

Japanese Flying Car Startup Aces Driver Test, Taking Off With Pilot Inside By Sissi Cao

There’s just one way to radically change your behavior: radically change your environment. —Dr. B.J. Fogg, Director of Stanford Persuasive Lab Most of us would like to think that our habits follow our

Nobody wants to fail. Not really. Sure, failure is better than not trying at all…but success is better than failure. After 4 years of teaching designers & developers to make their first product dollar

Lessons on app marketing Jeremy Olson Jul 23, 2014 · 11 min read I’m just going to say it. Building apps is hard. Building great apps is really hard. And building a financially successful app is, well

“The future of jobs might be bleak, but the future of work certainly isn’t.” — http://t.co/v8yh42ZkgC

Product & Design 10 min read Take back your time: How to unlock the hidden value in your calendar There’s a bit of magic behind architecting a calendar that allows you to manage your time in an effect

How to make your transition to entrepreneurship (a little bit) easier Sacha Greif Jul 17, 2014 · 5 min read Over the past couple years I’ve gone from being a freelance designer to working exclusively

HBS Professor Michael Porter created the Five Forces Framework in 1979 in a landmark book called Competitive Strategy . One of those forces, the threat of substitutes has intrigued me for quite a whil

Your time is valuable. Spend it wisely. Karen McGrane Jun 24, 2014 · 3 min read About twenty years ago I asked a man I’d never met to meet me for coffee. It wasn’t a blind date—he’d been recommended t

But it’s how you consume that’s vital to creative inspiration Mikael Cho Jul 15, 2013 · 6 min read A few nights ago, I did something for the first time in my life. I listened to a full album ( Jay-Z’s

The philosophy of great customer service 2014-06-29 I was honestly surprised that my company, CD Baby, was such a runaway success.But I was even more surprised to find out why. CD Baby had lots of pow

These days “keeping up with the Joneses means trying to outschedule them.” Insightful piece on busyness: http://t.co/xsNtr1W149

Such a good read from @destraynor: "Why new features usually flop" http://t.co/D0Kaajegnp

How we work: “Just another distributed team workflow with @trello and @InVisionApp” — http://t.co/FdoayZikb3

Nishant Choksi A battle is being waged over the apostrophe, and the names of two of the online factions—the Apostrophe Protection Society and Kill the Apostrophe—suggest an extremism usually reserved for blood, rather than ink or pixels. The former, founded by a retired British copy editor, provides…

Preserving security and privacy, and how iOS differs from Android In a sentence, the difference between Android's approach to security and privacy and iOS' approach to it is that Android will give use

Please don’t presume that because I believe in a God I am ignorant or illogical. One of the most common reactions I get from people who discover I am a christian is confusion. This is especially true for those who know me in a professional capacity. The web community has a large proportion of…

I’ve noticed something interesting happening in editorial design online. More articles, and websites in general, are focusing on slowing down to not only convey their story, but to set and maintain a

For the persnickety power-user, there is but one way to navigate around a computer: with the keyboard. Let’s talk about application launchers Want to launch an app on your Mac? There is, ahem , an app

"How to quit Amazon and shop in an actual bookstore: And why you damn well should" http://t.co/10IiL3pzxY

Paul Ford (@ftrain) on time, times, and our users' time: https://t.co/rJ5x7zH16R This is eloquent & profound. Thank you!

from the book “ Hell Yeah or No ”: What do you hate not doing? 2009-08-29 When we wonder what’s worth doing, we ask ourselves, “What do I really love?” or “What makes me happy?” That question never re

WWDC 2014 was a love letter from Apple. Not just to customers, not just to developers, not just to partners or media or any one specific group, but to everyone who makes up the community. It was a lov

Recently amongst web developers there been a passionate conversation about the use of “hamburger” iconography for progressive disclosure usually showing navigation (for the record, I hate that name fo