Illustration by Sean Freeman Jonathan Hoefler is standing in his office on the seventh floor of the Cable Building in Noho, sipping a mug of ginger tea and telling stories about an obscure 16th-centur
iOS 8, the next major version of Apple’s mobile operating system, was unveiled earlier today at the company’s WWDC 2014 keynote. Shipping this Fall, iOS 8 focuses on refining the bold new look launche
May 22, 2014 Why Designers Really Should Learn to Code There’s been a lot of discussion over the years about whether or not designers should be obligated to learn how to implement what they design. This obviously causes a bit of angst amongst the design community because, of course, not every…
When it comes to writing modular CSS, I try to stick to the Single Responsibility Principle wherever possible. This will limit the scope of your modules and allow you to easily build and combine them to create flexible style patterns. Definition In object-oriented programming, the single…
Here is a dorky chart showing what I call The “Spectrum of ‘GTD workflow’ Tools”: Click for full-size What does it mean? Basic task-management tools shine with short term tasks and goals. They are sim
When I was in college, I struggled through a pretty long spiritual dry-spell. Then I discovered something that drastically changed the trajectory of my spiritual journey. This new way of reading the B
If you don’t like bossing people around. Rich Armstrong May 19, 2014 · 4 min read In “ Be A Manager ”, I did my best to get you on board with the idea of that having non-awful managers starts with you
In the back of my head is always a thought: What will I do when I stop designing websites?It’s not because I want to stop—I love what I do—it’s that I wonder how long I can expect to do it. I don’t th
Tim Skillern writes on May 1, 2014 (Flickr photo by Takashi Hososhima ) If You’re Struggling to Write Better Business and Marketing Copy, Here Are Several General Writing Tips that Will Help You Focus
I find questions about writers’ tools both fascinating and repulsive: fascinating because learning about the habits and techniques of people whose work you admire is endlessly interesting, and occasio
There are many “right” ways to design an application, so I want to be clear that this is my workflow (and the one I recommend), but it’s not mandatory. I know other designers who just jump right into
Shutterstock Well I’m in the working world again. I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of travelin
TL;DR: Over the past year, I’ve been trying to increase the routine and rhythm in my day for one primary reason – increase and improve creative energy. Essentially, reduce my daily cognitive load for
Breakpoints. Break. Points. Points at which things break in your design. But, at what point did they start becoming 'the point at which I will create a new layout entirely', or 'the point at which I i
It’s 2013, almost three years after we first raised money and started growing beyond the first four employees . At the time, Jeff wrote a great blog post about working remotely, basically laying out o
This is the third and final in a series of articles that expand upon my essay in Contents Issue No. 1. Read the first and second . I worked for many years on textbooks—big books with several authors e
February 23, 2012 Related topics: Focus Client Relations Career Community Process Communication Dave DeRuchie VP, Operations Dave’s articles Feed Warning , if you are reading this in a meeting STOP !
What’s your maximum NPH? How many notifications are you exposed to every hour? Let’s take a second to think critically about these constant requests for your attention: what do they mean? Who is making them? Why are they there? Before I wrote the Information Diet, I audited myself and found I was…
South by Southwest holds a special place in my heart. Back when I was just a fledgling independent contractor, I met Dan Mall at a coffee house and he urged me to attend. He told me it was a great pla
We shouldn't open our books without praying, but we'd better pray without opened books. I think B. B. Warfield would give a thumbs up here. In his salty essay, "The Religious Life of Theological Stude
The last 3 years By Drew Strojny on July 2, 2010 When I started this journey into WordPress themes in September of 2008 I had no idea it would end up being a full-time gig. It is truly a dream come tr
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What is this? In my spare time I mentor designers at the beginning of their interactive product design careers. This blog is a mix of the ideas and references that come up in these conversations. I encourage asking questions.
Previously I wrote about going into a feedback meeting knowing what you…
To design responsive websites effectively and responsibly, I had to completely redefine the way I view the web. It pains me to admit it, but I wasn’t too keen on responsive web design right out of the
As a proud VPS survivor, I thought it might be fun to write up five common options for hosting a web business, ranked in decreasing order of 'cloudiness'. People who aren't interested in this kind of minutia would be wise to pull the rip cord right here. 1. The Monastery You run your site on an…
It was simple. The first bookend of my formal theological training was grounded in an easy-to-the-point-of-jolly ambition: learn as much as I can about Jesus and teach it to others. What fueled my pur
Psalm 135:1–6 — Praise the Lord ! Praise the name of the Lord , give praise, O servants of the Lord , 2 who stand in the house of the Lord , in the courts of the house of our God! 3 Praise the Lord ,
“The score of life is not, or should not be, an endless blur of sixteenth-note intensities… Any routine of life that is unsustainable long-term cannot be of God. He calls us to work. But he also calls us to rest, in order to work most fruitfully. What sets us apart is this. We rest, in order to…
What should you do if you know someone who seems to be more excited about movies than Jesus? Many professing Christians give little evidence of valuing Jesus more than the latest movie they have seen.
With the focus being on the latest and greatest CSS3 snippet to replicate something we’ve done with images for years, it’s rare to read a solid discussion on the fundamentals of CSS. It was completely
My favorite piece of writing from the last year was “ Sad as Hell. ” Officially it’s a book review for Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story . Unofficially it’s a portrait of the reviewer’s addiction to media and the struggle to prevent it from derailing her life. This anxiety is about more…
I got angry at my daughter the other day NS I got angry at my daughter the other day NS Download a specially formatted PDF of this article by clicking The other day my daughter sinned. She did wrong. She made a mistake. It was clear. It was obvious. It was objective. I was disappointed. I was…
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IN The ‘trouble’ with Android , Stephanie Rieger points out the ludicrous number of Android screen sizes on a typical UK client’s website and comes to this conclusion: If … you have built your mobile
AM Renault/Flickr Listen to a narrated version of this essay: The lecture below was delivered to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in October 2009. My title must seem
As I’ve been working on my book on gospel-centered productivity, Jonathan Edward’s resolutions have been very relevant and significant. Edwards is an example to us of true productivity — he shows us t
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I f you’ve lost interest in thinking about Tim Tebow, don’t read the rest of this article. It will only make you crazy. I’ve just watched the Denver Broncos defeat the Minnesota Vikings, 35-32. Tebow
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