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Practice

• Hungry For a Better Menu?
• The Design Pro Show
• Web Design is Product Design
• Values vs. Compromise
• The Designer Designs
• The Profession That Should Be
• Value, Cost, and Rational Professionalism
• Advice for New Freelancers
• Profit, Lies, Theft, and Idiocy
• Sales: The Fail Team
• The UX Design Education Scam
• "Curations" from Unit Interactive
• The Design Lesson: 1 of 1
• White Labeling 2.0: Black Labeling
• Stupid Is As Stupid Does
• Lies, Deception, and Subcontracting
• Where Wireframes Are Concerned
• Creativity is Not Design - Design Test 2
• AIGA On Committees and Design Projects
• Where the Buck Stops
• Unify: A Fantasy Fulfilled
• Gestalt Principles of Perception - 5
• Gestalt Principles of Perception - 4
• On Creativity
• Dog and Pony Show Design
• Of Brands and Commodities
• Big Brand 1080px Design
• Gestalt Principles of Perception - 3
• Gestalt Principles - 2: Similarity
• Complex Order, Simple Chaos
• Gestalt Principles of Perception - 1
• Contrast and Meaning
• My Precious
• Volume Doesn't Matter
• Calculating Hours - the Client Factors
• How and Why: Styling Text Links
• Falling Down
• Bad Layout Conventions
• The Tao of Deadlines
• Elements of Communication, 2
• Elements of Communication, 1
• Don’t Walk; Run.
• Professional Thinking
• Quiet Structure
• Navigational State Confusion
• Design Questions
• Make Me care
• Keeping Up
• Rules and Context
• Compromised Design
• Design Psychology
• The Dumbest Guys in the Room
• Non-semantic Markup
• Sensitivity Training
• Objectivity Be Damned
• Logo Misapplication
• No Instruction Necessary
• Painting a Better Landscape
• Contrast in Context
• Designing a Guided Tour
• Anticipation
• The Layers of Design
• Design Process vs. Result
• How Design Fails
• It's Not About the Website

Redux

• News Redux
• USA.gov Redux
• Wall Street Journal Redux
• NRA.org Redux
• CarMax.com Redux
• Amazon.com Redux
• Fox News Redux
• Redux Anatomy
• White House Redux
• Google Redux
• eBay Redux

Culture

• Designers as Pawns and Useful Idiots
• Plato's Cave
• The Demise of American Exceptionalism
• First Things First?
• Again With the Risks
• Risk
• On Inspiration
• The Boom of Doom
• Web 0.2
• The Design of (the wrong sort of) Dissent
• The Opposite of Professional
• A Sense of Non-Commitment
• A Brand Synopsis
• So Long Design Observer
• Versus
• An Inconvenient War on Truth
• Promises
• Federal Reservations
• Web Misunderstandards
• Quality, Not Compliance
• Don't Just Read: Think
• Anti-Social Media
• Want a Bullshit Sandwich?
• No Comments Here
• Elite!=Elitist
• Seek Understanding
• Civilization vs. Responsibility
• Redesign Competitions
• The First Rule of Web Design is
• Design Showcase Pornography
• With Apologies to Mr. Glaser
• Agencies Behaving Badly
• Design: The It Profession

Critique

• Journalism
• The Blind Leading the Blind
• Criticism: Myths and Childishness
• Poynter's Eye-tracking Follies
• CommArts is Out of Touch
• The Stepford Wives
• The Many Faces of AIGA
• The Thin PMS185 Line
• Poynter’s Complete Waste
• Six Apart Loves Dumb Designers
• Online Newspapers Are 99% Bad

Miscellaneous

• Design Pro Thanks
• Blowing It
• My Old Fantasy Writings
• A Christmas Poem
• How To Join AIGA
• I Once Guitar Dueled with Paul Gilbert
• Want to Work at Unit Interactive?
• Logo Design for Buffalo Bill
• How To Become a Designer
• Buying Shampoo
• The Trouble With RFPs
• Epic
• Redesigning Unit Interactive
• Unit Interactive is Hiring
• What is Design Professionalism?
• Times New Omen
• Unit Interactive: Labs
• Nathan's Font Stacks
• Designer Survey
• Unit's New Face & Office Space
• My Teacher
• Work With Me Here
• Tough Client: My Son
• Life Chemistry
• Living Purposefully
• Texas-Sized Instruction
• A Groovy Little Unit
• May the Source Be With You
• Life Lessons
• Andy is a 16-year Old Doofus
• Online News Just Got Interesting
• Give Your Website Away

Podcasts

• Design View Show #8
• Design View Show #7
• Design View Show #6
• Design View Show #5
• Design View Show #4
• Design View Show #3
• Design View Show #2
• Design View Show #1