A collection of essays, blog posts, and interviews focused on user experience, industry trends, rebrands, and other (mostly design-related) topics.

Please note — writing occasionally includes strong opinions and an underlying curmudgeonly tone

• Aug 27, 2025 · Medium
  What The Heck Happened to Shopping? arrow_outward
• Dec 22, 2024 · Medium
  The Frustrating Irony of Corporate Acronyms (FICA) arrow_outward
• Nov 2, 2024 · Medium
  How Can Design Encourage Considerate Smartphone Behavior? arrow_outward
• Jan 31, 2023 · Honeycomb blog
  Your Data Just Got a Facelift: Introducing Honeycomb's Data Visualization Updates (written in collaboration with Sarrah Vesselov) arrow_outward
• Nov 28, 2022 · Medium
  Trading Sports Cards Online: A Simple Solution to Improve the Collector's Experience arrow_outward
• Jul 15, 2021 · Honeycomb blog
  Improving Our Typography to Optimize the Honeycomb User Experience arrow_outward
• Feb 5, 2019 · Setka blog
  10 Insights on the State of Visual Storytelling in 2019 (PDF) download
• Oct 20, 2017 · NewsCred/Welcome blog
  How We Relaunched NewsCred.com to Increase Traffic and Leads (PDF) download
• Sep 19, 2016 · NewsCred/Welcome blog
  Marketing Visionary: Q+A with Clair Byrd, Head of Marketing at InVision (PDF) download
• August 10, 2016 · NewsCred/Welcome blog
  How a Century-Old Tech Company Continues to Innovate: Q+A with Esteban Pérez-Hemminger, Design Lead at IBM (PDF) download
• May 24, 2016 · NewsCred/Welcome blog
  Interview with David Lee, Chief Creative Officer at Squarespace (PDF) download
• Apr 27, 2016 · NewsCred/Welcome blog
  6 Inspirational Quotes from Our Marketing Team About, Well, Marketing (PDF) download
• Mar 7, 2016 · NewsCred/Welcome blog
  The New NewsCred: How We Approached the Strategy Behind Our Rebrand (PDF) download
• Sep 1, 2015 · NewsCred/Welcome blog
  Why Brands Should Make Time For Type (PDF) download
• Sep 29, 2014 · NewsCred/Welcome blog
  Why Marketing Designers Need to Think Legibility Above All (PDF) download