###Origin The acronym JASA was coined on Twitter by Stephen Hay in response to several tweets (posts) regarding a new Spice-Girl-association-inducing acronym POSH. JASA is also known as SPORTY. Other variations (three more) are currently in development. ###Why The term “stupid” is really a mouthful, so we expanded upon it in order to make it […]
FOWD London 2007
I’m actually starting this post while still in London at the Future of Web Design (FOWD) conference; there are a few presentations to go. So far I’ve found this event pretty well organized. Being a one-day event, it’s been packed and maintains a high tempo. Ryan Carson has been “nudging” speakers to adhere to the […]
Blogging for money, designing for ads
I subscribe to a very diverse collection of RSS feeds, most of them design and technology-related. Some of them are productivity-related, like Lifehacker, 43Folders and lifehack.org. But whatever the subject, if I see something interesting, I usually jump out of my reader and into my browser. I’m a designer, I love design, and I like […]