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As you can see, things have changed quite a bit around these here parts. Dale and I are pleased to finally pull the curtain back on our brand new website and let everyone finally take a look. The original brainstorming and planning behind this new version started months ago down in Punta Cuna. [...]

James Higgs: “There are a number of trigger phrases that people use to try to prevent you focusing on the detail of a project and back to nice, sweeping, high-level thinking, and ‘that’s executional’ is one of them. I think it is supposed to mean that the particular detail you’re focusing on is not central to [...]

An oldie but a goodie: Dear American Airlines by Dustin Curtis. Thoughtful discussion on customer experience, design, & the wax in the ears of it all: corporate culture.

A Simple Site Is Hard To Find Courtney has an aesthetic approach very similar to ours: keep it as simple as possible. Elegeance is found in such things, but only where the simplicity is derived from distilling complexities into the most palatable and digestible of forms and formats. The short version of that sentence is: If [...]

As we approach 300,000 downloads of WPtouch and nearly half a million if you count up our other plugins, we’ve been reflecting on what we’ve accomplished and where we’d like to go from here. Our plugins are freely available and GPL, which means that donations are the only source of income they generate at this time. [...]

Dave Shea is trying to help fellow designer Jonathan Snook raise a bit of money for a family adoption fund. To that end, Dave’s donating the proceeds of the sales of his Chalkwork icons to the Snook adoption fund for the next few weeks. If you’re looking for sexy, professional icons, now’s a great time to [...]

A great resource for designers. But if you’re anythign like us, where the heck are you going to find the time to practice?

We prefer evolutions to revolutions, and have re-crafted the website’s design somewhat. There were a few areas of concern that we had design-wise that we wanted to address, in addition to the serious lack of a portfolio page, something that was always pushed back due to our client commitments and plugin development (which in a [...]