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Category Archives: Design

PSD2HTML: Terrible Pricing for Web Development

I was absolutely disgusted by the pricing strategy at PSD2Web. Here are a few examples, and an explanation as to why the practice feels shady.

Creating a Personal Business Card

Now that I’m at the conference, I’m getting asked for my contact information… many times. Cerner wasn’t able to justify printing official business cards, (“Why does a non-client facing engineer, translation: geek, need a business card?”). So… I had to create my own. What do you think? (click to open larger version, in a new [...]

Dear Google Maps

Kansas City closed the Paseo Bridge, which is my lifeline to and from work, for 9 months! Google Maps tells me that this is the best route, but knowing that bridge is out, shouldn’t I be able to tell Google that? I decided to ask them…

Dear Dan Cederholm…

I wrote a quick note to Dan Cederholm today about something that’s been bugging me about applying web standards to full-fledged web applications, not just websites. I was curious about how the two worlds, as I see them, coexist. Here’s my note. I’ll post a longer musing later. Hi Dan,I met you at SXSW this [...]