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hello, i'm yan

I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, climber, and telemark skier

This blog is about startups, blogging, Ruby On Rails, virtualization and cloud computing, photography, customer service, marketing, ux and design, git, and lots more.

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Posts from December 2008

Identity photo project: casting call

I’m starting a photo project this month that will investigate the concept of identity by looking at your hobbies. I want to take two shots of each person. The first will illustrate you in the personality of your favorite hobby. Whether it involves a particular costume, set, environment, props, we will capture this identity. The [...]


Why you (and I) are not designers

The problem with design is that, at first glance, it seems intuitive. It’s pretty universally agreed that the iPhone is well designed. What makes it so? The rounded corners and shiny glass? The special effects in the OS? It’s too easy to think that once you’ve seen an example of great design, you can reproduce [...]