I attended the #ixd10 conference last weekend in Savannah, and while better bloggers have summarized and analyzed the event, I’d like to share my own brief takeaway lesson. Let your passion out into the world. Every single one of us is great at something unique, and we owe it to ourselves to share that with [...]

A Clean Design is now a lot cleaner. After some hard evenings spent sketching, wireframing, polishing, and coding, this site reflects, as much as possible, my own work and my views on the web in general. Let me know if you enjoy the graphic design – it’s the first full one I’ve ever done. I [...]

Buen dia!  A Clean Design has lain idle for a couple of months now, as I’ve disappeared into the concrete, wine, and beef jungle known as Buenos Aires.  At the same time, we’ve launched two websites at BIG.  If my experience of quitting a corporate job and moving across the world while working as a [...]

There have been some great developments in the Axure community lately – these are definitely worth a look. Jeff Harrison figures out how to do Drag and Drop interactions. Axure releases excellent Widget Libraries for 5.5 (beta available here). W. Scott Williams made a nice Sliding Drawer widget.

Axure has now made the 5.5 beta available to the public.  Go try out those features I mentioned yesterday!

If you’ve followed this blog at all, you may have noticed that Axure RP is my prototyping tool of choice.  Axure is currently working on the 5.5 version of their product, and a few of us Axure zealots have been able to beta test the next release. The current version of the beta reflects some [...]

“All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best.” – Occam’s Razor Feature Creep, the result of giving in to the attitude that “this feature would be nice” in your product, inevitably results in increased design and development costs, bloating of your product, and a reduction in simplicity.  Here, I propose a strategy [...]

Like most people, I have hundreds of accounts for various websites, software, and services.  Unlike most, I have a unique, strong password for each site – and can remember every single one.  In essence, I take the name of the site, run it through a standard mental algorithm that also does a little encryption, and [...]

An old man once told me: “The secret to success is to do what you want, and do it better than anyone else.” Now I may be no mean shakes at writing, but I sure as heck know how to do a thing or two.  Like many of us out there, I’ve learned, explored, travelled, [...]