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Is design building interfaces or solving problems?

When design is viewed as problem solving then you can’t always predict how long it will take.

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New Resource: Principles of User Interface Design

The twenty or so design principles that I use all the time.

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Designing for the Next Step

There are two things that every designed screen must do well: describe the current step and describe the next step. It’s as simple…and hard…as that.

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Design is not Horsepoop

Design is not just how something looks…design is not just how something looks… …

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More on Burying the Sign Up Button

Why the counter-intuitive removal of sign-up actually helps you focus on your user’s goals.

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The Golden Age of Design in Startups

Three bits of evidence: designer-led companies are being invested in, designers are increasingly wanted as founders, and design firms are being bought for their talent.

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Why you should bury your sign up button

A lesson I learned while trying to make a button so hot you would want to lick the screen.

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What our home pages are really saying (a dialog)

Imagine a website could talk. Here is what most of the conversations would be like.

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How Steve changed things

An homage to the best innovator of our time: Steve Jobs.

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Five reasons why you should find what you love and double-down on it

Finding what you love is like compound interest…it works for you over time.

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