The Pitfalls of Photoshop Comps

I attended college during the graphic design segue from analog to digital. We had a couple of Macs (I think they were LCs, remember those?), but they weren’t being used for actual production work yet out in the real world. We learned to do things both on and off the computer, and I’m glad I […]

Dutch Dossier Open Standards published

I was pleased to receive the Open Standards Dossier on Web-based User Interfaces this morning in the mail. It’s a small book which I wrote with content management guru Erik Hartman of Hartman Communicatie. The booklet, a project of the Dutch Program for Open Source and Open Standards (Programma OSOSS) is meant to introduce laypeople […]

Getting Smoogly

Steve Rubel contemplates Dot-Com-Bubble 2.0 in a recent post, which contains an image of lots of logos. Logos of so-called Web 2.0 companies. Go ahead and check out the image, and see if you don’t notice something weird. Not the logos themselves, which (thankfully) are mostly swoosh–less, in contrast to their 1.0 counterparts. But look […]