My notes on how interaction designers can work with software developers and testers on agile delivery teams. I shared this earlier in the week and wanted to expand on it a bit… … I think the value an interaction designer can bring to how digital products are delivered (as in … working alongside devs…

High­light­ing Blog­ging on Mastodon In what looks like a very smart move, the team at Mastodon just released a very nice new feature for media organizations, journalists and bloggers: when someone shares a link to an article by certain news outlets like The Verge, MacStories, or MacRumors, the…

I’m a big fan of the static site builder Eleventy. I’ve found the ability to put together a small site or landing page with minimum effort and complexity to be extraordinarily useful. (Eleventy is fun

One of the biggest sticking points of being a solo dev is maintaining motivation. I’ve been keeping a journal entry about how to hack my motivation, what works and what doesn’t. Here are the things that have worked. Convert external sources to motivation I’ve always known that I’m more extrinsically…

From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”: Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a victimless crime. It’s just one small script, right? But JavaScript can import more JavaScript. “It’s just o

The key to side project success Posted on: 31 October 2023 Most start-ups fail. Intuitively, they fail because they run out of money. But what’s the biggest reason for this? The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries, speculates it’s because too many companies build the wrong product for the wrong people. He…

It’s so easy to start with the question, “What should I do?” And end up with a discussion about other people and what they’re doing. Here’s Paul Ford: I’ll give you a good example. Do you go out and raise venture capital? Well, it would be nice to have more money. But then everybody tells us that VC…