Archive

November 2011

• Focus makes ‘mobile first’ stick
• I am joining Nansen as Head of Creative

June 2011

• Better web typography

April 2011

• My presentation at DevTank: UX for humans
• Sometimes i shoot for magazines

March 2011

• Start-ups people talk about in San Francisco
• Activity versus Accomplishment

February 2011

• UI: Improving the Huddle user experience
• Brand Huddle in Japan
• Fixing the width on Huddle
• A Zen moment

November 2010

• Make your visit count
• Anxiety Design
• Superb suburbia – UX IRL

October 2010

• The luxury of focus
• Observation: Mac App Store UI

September 2010

• The washed out design trend to stay away from
• Saying hello to the updated Huddle identity and site
• Refresh #1
• One week, two presentations

July 2010

• UX by Holga D
• Inspired by a garden
• No more 56K modems; updating a point of reference

May 2010

• I am joining Huddle

April 2010

• User testing on the iPad (more notes from day 2)
• Observing the iPad (notes from day 2)
• Working on the iPad (first day notes)

March 2010

• From smoke signals to Twitter to the whiteboard
• My inspiration portfolio
• UI experiment for the iPad

January 2010

• Tweets by context
• Visual verification
• Designing for donations
• The most minimal site ever?

December 2009

• Digital magazines, Bonnier Mag and Time Inc
• Sharpenr update
• More screens equal better interfaces

November 2009

• Ten predictions for 2010
• No stain on Tide's app concept
• Walk the walk. Or don't talk the talk.
• Random Hacks of Kindness
• Win or lose in the app economy

October 2009

• Bring nothing: A better way to start a project
• My Noded presentation from HD Live 09
• Sunday evening musings: Extending a campaign element to the real world
• More is better, in the context of less

September 2009

• First things first
• No more o_O
• Come work at Citizen Space
• Simler gets the design right, and kicks Facebook's b*tt

August 2009

• Guest blogging at Huddle

July 2009

• High speed logo design
• A better conference badge
• This is not an ad

June 2009

• Thought Narratives are ideal for novice clients
• Good Web – An example
• Is it “Good Web”?
• Twitter launches a status symbol
• Four misconceptions about UX (and some basic advise)
• Apture
• Is Google Wave the world's first Noded app?

May 2009

• Words are UX too
• Hiring? Ask about passion.
• Look for the businesses that need you

April 2009

• London Noded Tweetup April 28!
• Noded tweetup in Linköping, Sweden on April 23
• The best of Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco
• Sweden rules – Top 5 tech startups

March 2009

• When more is better
• Call to action: Turn the comment form upside down
• It's alive!
• Why Kevin Rose’s Twitter directory is already #1
• A Noded interview
• I am now part of Bloggers Monday

February 2009

• Temporarily unavailable…ish
• Noded tweetup on February 18

January 2009

• How to survive, and grow a bit, in 2009
• Tales from the other side
• Agreeing with Rachel – Why Twitter will change the way we design
• We are “Most loved” (and now Mashup of the Day)
• 2009

December 2008

• Tweed: Tweets + feeds in a TweetDeck style package?
• Content is no longer King. What is?
• LoveTweet! is live
• NE.se
• Making “version control” actually do something useful
• The 5 apps most in need of improvement for 2009
• Logo musings

November 2008

• Always follow through – #2: reQall
• Always follow through
• Bring your “web data” to the real world
• Sharpenr turns 1
• Make everything useful
• Yes!

October 2008

• Things are a certain way for a reason
• That Cap&Design story…
• A perfectly normal day in San Francisco
• Contact pages that tell you to f**k off
• Cap&Design Magazine, issue 8
• The secret to ‘viral video’ success? Quality.
• Noded gets a shout-out
• Why are innovators vilified?
• Don’t hang on to bad ideas
• I’m back
• Nodes is live, released and available!

September 2008

• A clean slate of mind
• Side projects have massive upside
• Noded. Better.
• Guidelines for online success
• Social media reveals underlying poor understanding of online communication
• Being upfront about (re)sources
• Top 5 client misconceptions

August 2008

• Information design
• Yes, I’m co-authoring a book
• Call it by its real name
• The Gray White Black site is live
• Sit back and enjoy the ride
• Great site, too bad about the web shop
• BBC Sport’s fantastic olympics promo by Hewlett and Albarn

July 2008

• Doane Paper is almost a dream come true
• Ask more questions
• SF Beta
• Social media is not a delivery mechanism
• Simply true
• Firefox 3 needs some browser.urlbar tweaks
• Why edited is always better
• Today: SocialMediaCamp, Mashable party
• Two under-reported great things about the iPhone 2.0 update

June 2008

• Project start-up info 101
• I don’t do long reports
• An observation
• I talk about social media in Geneva
• Fredrik at Autoquake is hiring
• Writing for the real world
• Relentless passion
• Higher resolutions, narrower browser windows fit rise of Vertical Point Media

May 2008

• The language of copy
• Congrats
• HR and IT departments are a drag on your business
• 333 Mother
• Citywide wifi screens
• Boagworld and other recommended podcasts
• The new Orbitsville site is live
• Belated Web 2.0 Expo wrap
• More noise, less signal

April 2008

• The cat is out of the bag – almost
• Does your OS affect your output?
• Review info that matters
• Fantasy Interactive makes it clear what you get for your money on SAS

March 2008

• Take a break with Aaron Sjogren
• Set lots of goals
• Why a blackboard beats a whiteboard
• Proof of passion
• “We don’t innovate”
• “Now” matters the most
• Starting up #5 – Either way you win.
• I like Citizen Space
• Commenting problem solved

February 2008

• I want less stuff in my Backpack
• Starting up #4 – Who is your decision maker?
• Comments
• Wireless equals results
• Flash sessions make you effective
• Starting up #3 – Picking a “CMS”

January 2008

• Word – Be gone?
• Webclip
• Evolving the user interface
• Two rules for describing your business
• Large images and motion video backgrounds
• What are you looking at?
• Starting up #2 – Pick the right people

December 2007

• Printing four-to-one
• WriteMaps – Righting the wrongs of site map tools?
• Starting up #1 – Focus on one thing
• Starting up – A series of sorts
• The desk I want for Christmas
• Incremental Managers can kill your business
• Commissioning Clients and Ultimate Clients
• Some things are not important

November 2007

• Get up, go for a walk
• Inspiring leader checklist
• Reassurance
• Be brave – say less
• Passionate, disciplined, specialized
• How far does passion stretch?
• And… action!

I will eventually add my Orvet Digital posts from March 2003 - October 2007 to the archive.