Words that would otherwise be coming out of my mouth

Make every thing fight for its life. Fight for its right to exist. Stop adding shit. Start killing shit. Victory is subtraction. Rip it all out. Be ruthless. Demand better. Reorder. Stop blindly adopting tools. Stop breaking the Web. Be […]

Here’s Jaime Caballero with some fantastic advice on how to improve your experience’s performance.

The trick is knowing when bashing your head against a wall repeatedly will lead to a breakthrough instead of you lying unconscious in a pool of blood.

I’m thrilled to be speaking at the Web Conference at Penn State alongside so many other great speakers (including apparently Tim Gunn of Project Runway fame. Life achievement unlocked?). Registration closes in just a few days, so I’d look into […]

A while back I wrote about the concept of project hubs for 24 Ways. I’m thrilled to see people finding the concept of a simple timeline for project milestones useful, and am even more thrilled to see tools emerge to […]

Rebecca’s Gift provides a space away from the everyday rhythm of life for families who have experienced the death of a child; to assist them in moving forward in their healing process through the opportunity to reconnect, rebuild, and relax […]

I’ll be giving a virtual seminar for UIE all about style guides: what they are, what kinds of style guides exist, how to make them, and how to make them work for your organization. Feel free to tune in!

As someone who almost exclusively lives in the many gorgous, comfortable t-shirts I’ve acquired from Cotton Bureau, it’s great to see them featured in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Great people doing great work in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Conducting an interface inventory is a critical first step for establishing an effective interface design system. I’ve written about what interface inventories are and why they’re important, so here’s a recap of what they are: An interface inventory is similar to a content […]

If you’re into Drupal and interested in Pattern Lab, this session at DrupalCon in Los Angeles looks like it fits the bill!

With the exception of being called a “creative”, I’m very flattered to have my Death to Bullshit talk be featured on the Made In PGH website.

The fine folks at Sparkbox created a hub for all their little tools and documents they use in their process. Some of it’s code, some of it’s documentation, but it’s all helpful. These resources (as well as Filament Group’s code hub) […]

In his article Obvious Always Wins, Luke Wroblewski warns of the dangers of sweeping links and actions under the rug. It’s challenging to find the room to expose important actions on constrained mobile screen sizes, but it’s necessary for designers to do so. A while back, […]

This is a fascinating discussion between Dan Mall, Jeffrey Zeldman, and Andy Clarke about the role of aesthetics in modern web design and development. This conversation is important as there’s still a bias that responsive design is responsible for bad […]

Dave Olsen (@dmolsen), the beloved developer of the Pattern Lab project, gave a great presentation about why Pattern Lab matters and what it can do.

Ben Maraney gave a great talk about how HTTP2 will speed up how the web works and will impact performance in a big way. Normally I struggle to make it through talks about in-the-weeds stuff like this, but I feel the […]

I had a fantastic time at Webdagene in Oslo, and this recap video does a great job of capturing the special nature of the event. They even included my little piece of advice, which is nice.

I just bought WP Migrate DB Pro to help keep my local databases and live sites in sync. Looking forward to digging into this. Right now my local sites and my live sites are way out of sync, and it […]

This is fantastic. Josh Higgins created a logo inspired by my Death to Bullshit talk.

I recently wrote about accessibility and low-powered devices and shared a story about how my wife’s cousin uses a Kindle as her primary browsing device. Chris Ferdinandi wrote a great follow-up post sharing some tips and gotchas for creating Web experiences that […]