A collection of essays, blog posts, and interviews focused on user experience, industry trends, rebrands, and other (mostly design-related) topics.
Warning: writing is likely to include strong opinions and an underlying curmudgeonly tone
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Aug 27, 2025 · Medium
What The Heck Happened to Shopping?
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Dec 22, 2024 · Medium
The Frustrating Irony of Corporate Acronyms (FICA)
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Nov 2, 2024 · Medium
How Can Design Encourage Considerate Smartphone Behavior?
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Jan 31, 2023 · Honeycomb blog
Your Data Just Got a Facelift: Introducing Honeycomb's Data Visualization Updates (written in collaboration with Sarrah Vesselov)
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Nov 28, 2022 · Medium
Trading Sports Cards Online: A Simple Solution to Improve the Collector's Experience
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Jul 15, 2021 · Honeycomb blog
Improving Our Typography to Optimize the Honeycomb User Experience
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Feb 5, 2019 · Setka blog
10 Insights on the State of Visual Storytelling in 2019 (PDF)
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Oct 20, 2017 · NewsCred/Welcome blog
How We Relaunched NewsCred.com to Increase Traffic and Leads (PDF)
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Sep 19, 2016 · NewsCred/Welcome blog
Marketing Visionary: Q+A with Clair Byrd, Head of Marketing at InVision (PDF)
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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)
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May 24, 2016 · NewsCred/Welcome blog
Interview with David Lee, Chief Creative Officer at Squarespace (PDF)
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Apr 27, 2016 · NewsCred/Welcome blog
6 Inspirational Quotes from Our Marketing Team About, Well, Marketing (PDF)
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Mar 7, 2016 · NewsCred/Welcome blog
The New NewsCred: How We Approached the Strategy Behind Our Rebrand (PDF)
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Sep 1, 2015 · NewsCred/Welcome blog
Why Brands Should Make Time For Type (PDF)
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Sep 29, 2014 · NewsCred/Welcome blog
Why Marketing Designers Need to Think Legibility Above All (PDF)
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