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More on criticism

February 24th, 2011 · No Comments · business, design, work

Nice response from Andi Farr to my post about criticism. He raises a good point: Once the work is launched, it’s another story – even if they were to agree with incoming criticism, the prospect of going back to a client to say “we did this wrong” is an uninviting one. I agree that criticism [...]

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Spec work does not equal design

June 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · business, design, work

In website design, speculative work stems from the idea of the designer as an artist. The idea that each designer has an identifiable style. The idea that the designer approaches each project with the main aim of creating something new, as opposed to building on what has worked well in the past. Also the belief that [...]

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The myth of creative industries

June 29th, 2010 · No Comments · business, entertainment

The lines between creation and distribution seem to get blurred in arguments about copyright law. What record companies and film studios and television channels and book publishers do is not what I think of as creative work; what they do is market and distribute creative work that is created by someone else. In an imaginary [...]

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Gary Vaynerchuk at RailsConf 2010

June 28th, 2010 · No Comments · business, customer service, marketing

Great talk. I’m totally behind the idea of the “give a fuck” economy.

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Kathy Sierra at Business of Software

May 12th, 2010 · No Comments · business, customer service, learning, software, video

It looks like Kathy Sierra has removed herself from the web but for those of us that miss her, here is an incredibly insightful talk about making your users feel amazing. About an hour long but worth it.

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