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How would that encounter have been different if you had a better sense of your own personality?

At the time, I was in my twenties, and I've always liked candy, so I considered myself a member of the target audience. It didn't feel right to reduce our…

Industry creative folks I'm friends with personally and respect professionally have uttered the following to me on multiple occasions:

I grew up in the small farming town of Palmer, Alaska. Aside from Alaska being Alaska, not much happened that made the evening news. Not even our weather…

When I was a young designer, I always asked other people how they got noticed for their work. The answer I most consistently received was

The processes and detailed knowledge required to build a website have grown leaps and bounds in terms of complexity and sophistication.

Web design would be dramatically different if HTML had been born with some foresight for storytelling devices like maps. We certainly can't blame web…

The article's title is borrowed from Malvina Reynolds' song,

I no longer design all day every day, but my experience as a designer taught me that developers should learn and practice design.

Star developers understand that other team members don't need to know about implementation details.