#450 1st December 2011 at 2pm I get asked about this a lot. How does it work? Do I enjoy it? Am I more or less productive? I have had many conversations about working remotely over the years. I felt compelled to write some thoughts and tell you a little about how it works for me. In doing so…

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I’m a happy camper. I just moved into a new office space that’s directly suited to the way I work, think, and create. Months ago, I wrote about improving the working environment inside my desktop , an

It’s important to feel productive and useful. However, many erroneously associate “productive” with “busy.” The image of an office worker who can simultaneously handle a phone call, fire off an email

At the risk of starting out on a completely abstract note I’ll go ahead and say that I literally have no idea where the past year went. Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of Iron to Iron . I’d like

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On Saturday night I was skimming through my Google Reader and landed on a Techcrunch post about the effect of commercial fryers on the environment. They highlighted the following impact: “If every large vat fryer in the [country] met the new Energy Star requirements, energy cost savings would…

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In association with MIX Online and An Event Apart , Paravel is proud to take part in the launch of The 2011 10K Apart: Responsive Edition . It went fast but we had fun handling the the design process

When it comes to working at your computer, there is only one rule: context switches are horrifically expensive. Let’s talk about the Zone once more. You’re either sitting down with your computer to fu

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One of the most difficult parts of transitioning from service oriented design as a web designer to product oriented design as a Creative Director has been the need to align the design for many moving parts. At Zaarly we have several teams all with access and need for interface, visual assets, and…

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We’re twenty years in to this world wide web thing. Today, I myself celebrate twelve years of writing this blog. And yet those of us who love this medium, who’ve had our lives changed by the possibility of publishing our words to the world without having to ask permission, are constantly charged…

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The Financial Times recently launched their new web app , replacing their dedicated iPad app . It’s been widely speculated that this was in response to Apple’s (since relaxed) policy of not allowing p

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For part one, go here. There is an implicit contract that the intern and employer enter into when an internship begins. I think that because it is implicit, it is rarely heeded. I’d like to take a moment to make it explicit for both parties. This post has the same disclaimer as Part One which is…

This is a public service announcement for all you young designers & developers out there looking to get started in the web industry. There is a conversation happening again and again at Studiomates that I think you should be aware of. Studiomates is pretty high-traffic in terms of interesting guests…