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

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Posts Tagged design

iPhone brings back sanity to Chase bank UI design

Do you hate your bank’s website? I do. I use Chase and even though I’ve seen much more evil from other bank websites, they all have *way too much* going on. It’s cumbersome to execute the most common tasks, and the website is unnecessarily cluttered with irrelevant crap. Do I need a gigantic blinking banner [...]


How Facebook can dramatically improve Pages

Despite all the bitching and moaning, I think the recent facebook redesign is great. Focusing on the stream, and the ease of sharing a variety of content works very well. But Facebook Pages feel like an afterthought that was tacked on, hacked on, and clearly never thought through. And now, let the Airing of Grievances [...]


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 [...]


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