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Trendy, abstract, modernist marketing is great, and you can still use some of that, but be careful what you write: you may need to be boring to be found!
I think it’s easier to switch languages than to switch disciplines. We need job titles that better describe our disciplines.
I don’t know if this is interesting, but maybe it gives some insight into the breadth of my work in a given week.
I’d rather be right than fast.
Here’s a thread designed to help non-web people understand how something that seems trivial on a website can lead to so many micro-decisions needing to be made.
I’m speaking again at this year’s WordCamp London. Find out more about my talk on screencasts for user training.
Perhaps I should be a teacher after all? The whys and hows of my first forays into technical developer screencasts.
The impact of a simpler, freer life is clear. How much do we miss out on experiences because of caution, rules, expectations? Perhaps, sometimes, the risk of ‘going ropeless’ is worth it.
I think that the distinction between developers and designers is actually an important one that we should keep, not throw away.
[Old post] Written around the time I left my old job, his is a vagely amusing email exchange with a cyclist colleague of mine that’s worth saving.