I need some new jeans, and I’m determined to buy them on the internet. Like any consumer looking to buy almost anything, my needs are predetermined but can be nudged in all sorts of directions. It’s all up to the lofty product page. My needs here are clear. The jeans need to: fit [...] Continue reading →

My friend Sean was over a few nights ago and made a comment that stuck to my slightly margarita-soaked brain — (I’m going to put this in quotes, but he probably worded it differently) “I don’t understand this blogroll thing at all. It feels like it’s for insiders.” At that moment, it occurred to [...] Continue reading →

Welcome to the lite version of The Blogroll, a big post I’m going to do every Friday that will hopefully turn into “a thing.” For now it’s more of an aggregator with a more traditional blogroll at the end, but we’ll see where it takes us. Most of the posts listed come from my coworkers [...] Continue reading →

It’s been a long while since we’ve had any news about .app, but we’ve just received a launch date — May 8, 2018 at 0:00 UTC (which is midnight in the timezone the UK is in). 🎉🎉🎉 Now for the nitty-gritty. First, pre-orders. Like our other pre-orders, we can’t guarantee you’ll receive the .app [...] Continue reading →

@GreigCranfield: I have a real problem with taking a simple usability project, stepping back, looking at the bigger picture and then my project is now ‘end capitalism’. This wasn’t my tweet, but I feel this every day of my life. And I’m clearly not alone. It’s the crisis of modern, urban life — the [...] Continue reading →

Naming is hard; you should obviously take care in the process; yadda, yadda, yadda. Instead of psychologically preparing you for the task of naming, I’m going to build a naming exercise that rivals any professional naming operation you might come across. Of course, when you pay someone, they tend to do all the groundwork, [...] Continue reading →

Remote working has plenty of unique pitfalls (as does regular office work), but the hardest thing is getting yourself going on a Monday morning. I don’t consider myself a particularly lazy person, but I’ve unconsciously flipped between Techmeme, Memeorandum, and Hacker News a dozen times already. It’s 8:53 am. The problem, oddly enough, [...] Continue reading →