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Why side projects fail
31st Dec 2017
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Why side projects fail

from Koos Looijesteijn [alt+shift+b] in design

31st Dec 2017
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Changing all the fonts on WSJ.com “Change the fonts.” It’s a simple mission statement. In reality, changing the fonts on wsj.com has...
11th Dec 2017
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Changing all the fonts on WSJ.com

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

11th Dec 2017
“Change the fonts.” It’s a simple mission statement. In reality, changing the fonts on wsj.com has involved years of coordination and planning between nearly every team at the Wall Street Journal. In the past month, the last few coordinated steps were executed with an incredible...
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Changing all the fonts on WSJ.com “Change the fonts.” It’s a simple mission statement. In reality, changing the fonts on wsj.com has...
11th Dec 2017
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Changing all the fonts on WSJ.com

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

11th Dec 2017
“Change the fonts.” It’s a simple mission statement. In reality, changing the fonts on wsj.com has involved years of coordination and planning between nearly every team at the Wall Street Journal. In the past month, the last few coordinated steps were executed with an incredible...
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What makes a good design principle? Like many design teams, the Wall Street Journal team has been thinking through our design...
14th Nov 2017
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What makes a good design principle?

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

14th Nov 2017
Like many design teams, the Wall Street Journal team has been thinking through our design principles. Writing design principles comes pretty naturally (especially if you read this excellent list by Jeremy Keith). As we collaborate, we end up with a lot of candidates. However,...
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What makes a good design principle? Like many design teams, the Wall Street Journal team has been thinking through our design...
14th Nov 2017
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What makes a good design principle?

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

14th Nov 2017
Like many design teams, the Wall Street Journal team has been thinking through our design principles. Writing design principles comes pretty naturally (especially if you read this excellent list by Jeremy Keith). As we collaborate, we end up with a lot of candidates. However,...
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Vue is a great JavaScript framework for designers
25th Sep 2017
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Vue is a great JavaScript framework for designers

from Koos Looijesteijn [alt+shift+b] in design

25th Sep 2017
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Artisanal outbound with Clearbit Connect For press releases, advertiser requests, or similar sales campaigns you’re sending a small batch of,...
11th Sep 2017
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Artisanal outbound with Clearbit Connect

from Alex Baldwin [alt+shift+b] in design

11th Sep 2017
For press releases, advertiser requests, or similar sales campaigns you’re sending a small batch of, usually cold, emails out with a specific ask. Finding potential recipients, writing an email that’s helpful, and tracking the results doesn’t need to take all day or be painful....
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British Summertime Aha, the great British Summer. You really never know what you’re going to get and it makes planning...
3rd Aug 2017
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British Summertime

from Sarah Parmenter [alt+shift+b] in design

3rd Aug 2017
Aha, the great British Summer. You really never know what you’re going to get and it makes planning weekends so darn difficult. Us Brits really do love to talk about the weather; as I write this post I started the day in shorts and a t-shirt and I’m about to go and fetch a...
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Blushbar is 4 this year–here’s what I’ve learned. . The Salon Business is Hard It’s been four long years, but I wouldn’t change it for the world. I’ve...
25th Jul 2017
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Blushbar is 4 this year–here’s what I’ve learned.

from Sarah Parmenter [alt+shift+b] in design

25th Jul 2017
. The Salon Business is Hard It’s been four long years, but I wouldn’t change it for the world. I’ve learned so much about business during these last four years; I can’t even begin to start writing it all down. The salon business is a complicated business to make work. It runs on...
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What is color?—Color theory in design
14th Apr 2017
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What is color?—Color theory in design

from Koos Looijesteijn [alt+shift+b] in design

14th Apr 2017
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How to get the best design feedback from your team In 2015, I wrote out my thoughts on creative feedback. Here’s that article in list format: Feedback...
13th Apr 2017
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How to get the best design feedback from your team

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

13th Apr 2017
In 2015, I wrote out my thoughts on creative feedback. Here’s that article in list format: Feedback should be concise Feedback should be action-oriented Feedback should have a consistent format At the time, the Planetary design team was growing. We were grappling with one of the...
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How to get the best design feedback from your team In 2015, I wrote out my thoughts on creative feedback. Here’s that article in list format: Feedback...
13th Apr 2017
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How to get the best design feedback from your team

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

13th Apr 2017
In 2015, I wrote out my thoughts on creative feedback. Here’s that article in list format: Feedback should be concise Feedback should be action-oriented Feedback should have a consistent format At the time, the Planetary design team was growing. We were grappling with one of the...
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135 Cedar Street 1:20 Scratchbuilt miniature based off 135 Cedar Street, San Francisco. Wood, MDF, Plastruct,...
27th Mar 2017
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135 Cedar Street

from Joshua Smith [alt+shift+b] in design

27th Mar 2017
1:20 Scratchbuilt miniature based off 135 Cedar Street, San Francisco. Wood, MDF, Plastruct, Cardboard, Paper, Plastic Card, Wire, Acrylic paint, Spraypaint, Chalk pastels. February 2016 SOLD. Photo Credit: Andrew Beveridge/ASB Creative The post 135 Cedar Street appeared first on...
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The New Macbook Pro with Touchbar I purchased my new MacBook Pro on a flight from London to San Francisco in the Autumn. I felt all...
21st Mar 2017
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The New Macbook Pro with Touchbar

from Sarah Parmenter [alt+shift+b] in design

21st Mar 2017
I purchased my new MacBook Pro on a flight from London to San Francisco in the Autumn. I felt all futuristic as I secured one of the new machines whilst on a poor internet connection, blazing through the sky. I felt even more nerdy when the Apple Store in Union Square was one of...
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One line of CSS to add hanging quotes The hanging-punctuation property aims at giving web web designers a finer grained control over...
10th Nov 2016
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One line of CSS to add hanging quotes

from Alex Baldwin [alt+shift+b] in design

10th Nov 2016
The hanging-punctuation property aims at giving web web designers a finer grained control over typography on the web. The idea behind hanging punctuation is to put some punctuation characters from start (or to a lesser extend at the end) of text elements “outside” of the box in...
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America, here is why I love you. I am proud to call America my second home, and I’ve toyed with living there permanently more times...
9th Nov 2016
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America, here is why I love you.

from Sarah Parmenter [alt+shift+b] in design

9th Nov 2016
I am proud to call America my second home, and I’ve toyed with living there permanently more times than I can count. On this day when emotions are running high, and sadness, anxiety, and trepidation is in the air for so many, I wanted to note down why I love America and what, as...
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Geek Mental Health Week This has been written as part of the Geek Mental Health Week – starting on Monday October 3rd 2016. ...
29th Sep 2016
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Geek Mental Health Week

from Sarah Parmenter [alt+shift+b] in design

29th Sep 2016
This has been written as part of the Geek Mental Health Week – starting on Monday October 3rd 2016.  You can hear me read this as an audioblog – 8 minutes. T his time of year is a strange one…
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Making WSJ.com more accessible As I write this, the WSJ.com team is launching a brand new homepage experience for small screens.1...
3rd Aug 2016
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Making WSJ.com more accessible

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

3rd Aug 2016
As I write this, the WSJ.com team is launching a brand new homepage experience for small screens.1 It’s one of our biggest subscription-drivers, a page that hundreds of thousands of people see every day. The new experience builds on the award-winning design of the WSJ iOS and...
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Design better data tables Poor tables. Where did they go wrong? Table tetris After being the bread and butter of the web for...
3rd Aug 2016
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Design better data tables

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

3rd Aug 2016
Poor tables. Where did they go wrong? Table tetris After being the bread and butter of the web for most of its early history, tables were cast aside by many designers for newer, trendier layouts. But while they might be making fewer appearances on the web these days, data tables...
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Datum ipsum tl;dr — I’ve created a tool called Datum Ipsum to enable designers to use realistic data when...
27th Jul 2016
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Datum ipsum

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

27th Jul 2016
tl;dr — I’ve created a tool called Datum Ipsum to enable designers to use realistic data when mocking up data visualizations. Also, this is a written version of a talk I gave at Data Viz Camp 2016 in NYC. The slides for that talk are here. In my career as a designer, both at...
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Datum ipsum tl;dr — I’ve created a tool called Datum Ipsum to enable designers to use realistic data when...
27th Jul 2016
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Datum ipsum

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

27th Jul 2016
tl;dr — I’ve created a tool called Datum Ipsum to enable designers to use realistic data when mocking up data visualizations. Also, this is a written version of a talk I gave at Data Viz Camp 2016 in NYC. The slides for that talk are here. In my career as a designer, both at...
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Tiny data visualizations This is a direct translation of a talk I gave at the NYC D3.js meetup in January of 2016. If you’d...
8th Feb 2016
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Tiny data visualizations

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

8th Feb 2016
This is a direct translation of a talk I gave at the NYC D3.js meetup in January of 2016. If you’d like to see a video of the talk, you can check it out on YouTube. Have you seen this comprehensive list of Donald Trump’s insults? Or maybe this detailed rundown of the 2016...
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Tiny data visualizations This is a direct translation of a talk I gave at the NYC D3.js meetup in January of 2016. If you’d...
8th Feb 2016
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Tiny data visualizations

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

8th Feb 2016
This is a direct translation of a talk I gave at the NYC D3.js meetup in January of 2016. If you’d like to see a video of the talk, you can check it out on YouTube. Have you seen this comprehensive list of Donald Trump’s insults? Or maybe this detailed rundown of the 2016...
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Mind the gap: designing graphs with missing data Data-driven interfaces are on the rise. Financial District CEOs want to see a birds-eye view of...
12th Dec 2015
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Mind the gap: designing graphs with missing data

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

12th Dec 2015
Data-driven interfaces are on the rise. Financial District CEOs want to see a birds-eye view of their bottom line as much as Silicon Valley Co-founders want to watch their growth hackers hack. Each user has their own hopes and fears about data, but there’s one thing nobody wants...
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Mind the gap: designing graphs with missing data Data-driven interfaces are on the rise. Financial District CEOs want to see a birds-eye view of...
12th Dec 2015
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Mind the gap: designing graphs with missing data

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

12th Dec 2015
Data-driven interfaces are on the rise. Financial District CEOs want to see a birds-eye view of their bottom line as much as Silicon Valley Co-founders want to watch their growth hackers hack. Each user has their own hopes and fears about data, but there’s one thing nobody wants...
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Goldilocks your graphs Data visualization is everywhere. From analytics platforms to infographics, across newsrooms and...
11th Nov 2015
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Goldilocks your graphs

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

11th Nov 2015
Data visualization is everywhere. From analytics platforms to infographics, across newsrooms and social media channels, there are vast swaths of the internet devoted to delivering data in non-tabular format. There are entire blogs devoted to the subject, such as the ubiquitous...
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Goldilocks your graphs Data visualization is everywhere. From analytics platforms to infographics, across newsrooms and...
11th Nov 2015
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Goldilocks your graphs

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

11th Nov 2015
Data visualization is everywhere. From analytics platforms to infographics, across newsrooms and social media channels, there are vast swaths of the internet devoted to delivering data in non-tabular format. There are entire blogs devoted to the subject, such as the ubiquitous...
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IAM FINE Mix While in Korea, I used Shazam to record all the songs played in coffee shops. Here’s a mix I put...
18th Sep 2015
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IAM FINE Mix

from Alex Baldwin [alt+shift+b] in design

18th Sep 2015
While in Korea, I used Shazam to record all the songs played in coffee shops. Here’s a mix I put together of all the discovered tracks.
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Well-designed interfaces look boring 3 billion people used the internet for the first time in the past decade. Can you imagine what that...
15th Jul 2015
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Well-designed interfaces look boring

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

15th Jul 2015
3 billion people used the internet for the first time in the past decade. Can you imagine what that was like? When I began using the internet, the web was pretty much just text. Interface design required finagling websites from knots of spreadsheet-like tables, and even the most...
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Well-designed interfaces look boring 3 billion people used the internet for the first time in the past decade. Can you imagine what that...
15th Jul 2015
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Well-designed interfaces look boring

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

15th Jul 2015
3 billion people used the internet for the first time in the past decade. Can you imagine what that was like? When I began using the internet, the web was pretty much just text. Interface design required finagling websites from knots of spreadsheet-like tables, and even the most...
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Towards better creative feedback Creative work — be it designing, writing, coding, or managing — is a collaborative practice. At...
7th Jan 2015
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Towards better creative feedback

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

7th Jan 2015
Creative work — be it designing, writing, coding, or managing — is a collaborative practice. At least two parties are always involved: The maker (a designer, developer, or manager) on one end, and the audience on the other.1 Feedback between the maker and the audience is...
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Towards better creative feedback Creative work — be it designing, writing, coding, or managing — is a collaborative practice. At...
7th Jan 2015
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Towards better creative feedback

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

7th Jan 2015
Creative work — be it designing, writing, coding, or managing — is a collaborative practice. At least two parties are always involved: The maker (a designer, developer, or manager) on one end, and the audience on the other.1 Feedback between the maker and the audience is...
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Product Design Sprints - QCon 2014 When I started at thoughtbot a year and a half ago, my first project was given to me within an hour...
11th Jun 2014
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Product Design Sprints - QCon 2014

from Alex Baldwin [alt+shift+b] in design

11th Jun 2014
When I started at thoughtbot a year and a half ago, my first project was given to me within an hour of getting my laptop’s dev environment set up. We kicked off a green field project for a non-profit in the education space. They wanted to raise funds digitally for public schools....
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See, Think, Design, Produce Jonathan Corum, New York Times See Practice until your eyes can see it See what others have done See...
7th May 2014
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See, Think, Design, Produce

from Alex Baldwin [alt+shift+b] in design

7th May 2014
Jonathan Corum, New York Times See Practice until your eyes can see it See what others have done See what’s possible Look at more than you can use Think Find a clear thought and get it on paper Sketching is visual problem solving Sketches are not commitments What are you trying...
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What happens when things go wrong The rise of the startup economy – and the abundance of millennial entrepreneurial wisdom it has...
6th May 2014
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What happens when things go wrong

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

6th May 2014
The rise of the startup economy – and the abundance of millennial entrepreneurial wisdom it has produced – means you can hardly go a day without seeing Samuel Becket’s words writ large: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” In celebrating...
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What happens when things go wrong The rise of the startup economy – and the abundance of millennial entrepreneurial wisdom it has...
6th May 2014
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What happens when things go wrong

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

6th May 2014
The rise of the startup economy – and the abundance of millennial entrepreneurial wisdom it has produced – means you can hardly go a day without seeing Samuel Becket’s words writ large: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” In celebrating...
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Practice makes perfect Professional baker/member of my band Jake at a band retreat recently, practicing. Editor’s note: I...
9th Apr 2014
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Practice makes perfect

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

9th Apr 2014
Professional baker/member of my band Jake at a band retreat recently, practicing. Editor’s note: I think this falls under the heading of ‘conventional wisdom.’ In addition, I’m walking a fine line between ‘self-help’ and ‘beating a dead horse.’ Perhaps poorly. Bear with me. I do...
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Practice makes perfect Professional baker/member of my band Jake at a band retreat recently, practicing. Editor’s note: I...
9th Apr 2014
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Practice makes perfect

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

9th Apr 2014
Professional baker/member of my band Jake at a band retreat recently, practicing. Editor’s note: I think this falls under the heading of ‘conventional wisdom.’ In addition, I’m walking a fine line between ‘self-help’ and ‘beating a dead horse.’ Perhaps poorly. Bear with me. I do...
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How I design ‘mobile first’
10th Feb 2014
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How I design ‘mobile first’

from Koos Looijesteijn [alt+shift+b] in design

10th Feb 2014
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Working to work Despite the fact that I build websites for a living, I do a significant amount of work in my...
18th Jan 2014
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Working to work

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

18th Jan 2014
Despite the fact that I build websites for a living, I do a significant amount of work in my notebooks. Quick quiz: what does a web developer do for a living? If you said ‘make websites, duh,’ you’re technically correct (the best kind of correct). And you’re in good company; I’d...
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Working to work Despite the fact that I build websites for a living, I do a significant amount of work in my...
18th Jan 2014
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Working to work

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

18th Jan 2014
Despite the fact that I build websites for a living, I do a significant amount of work in my notebooks. Quick quiz: what does a web developer do for a living? If you said ‘make websites, duh,’ you’re technically correct (the best kind of correct). And you’re in good company; I’d...
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A website to call my own Most of this site was built at my favorite coffee shop of late, Sump. I make a living designing and...
2nd Dec 2013
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A website to call my own

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Dec 2013
Most of this site was built at my favorite coffee shop of late, Sump. I make a living designing and developing, among many many other things, websites. So, for the past few years, I’ve had the embarrassing task of explaining something to all my clients and — worse, if you can...
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A website to call my own Most of this site was built at my favorite coffee shop of late, Sump. I make a living designing and...
2nd Dec 2013
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A website to call my own

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Dec 2013
Most of this site was built at my favorite coffee shop of late, Sump. I make a living designing and developing, among many many other things, websites. So, for the past few years, I’ve had the embarrassing task of explaining something to all my clients and — worse, if you can...
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Waking up, ready for creativity This post is part of Startup Edition 21. Sign up to the weekly newsletter to get the response to a...
1st Oct 2013
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Waking up, ready for creativity

from Alex Baldwin [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Oct 2013
This post is part of Startup Edition 21. Sign up to the weekly newsletter to get the response to a single question each week from a curated gathering of bloggers in the startup community. Since January, when I joined thoughtbot as a designer, I’ve shipped a new product every 6-8...
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New design pattern: Drag To Tag
10th Sep 2013
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New design pattern: Drag To Tag

from Koos Looijesteijn [alt+shift+b] in design

10th Sep 2013
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