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  • 01.02.09 | Resolutions

    Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing […]

  • 12.11.08 | Don’t Settle For Easy

    Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing […]

  • 11.25.08 | Dreams and Risk-Taking

    Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing […]

  • 11.24.08 | Inspiration

    Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing […]

  • 10.23.08 | Multivariate Testing: Know what works

    Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing […]

  • 10.17.08 | Speaking at Silicon Valley Geek Dinner

    Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing […]

  • 10.17.08 | Hello gorgeous

    Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing […]

  • 10.14.08 | How do you do it?

    Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing […]

  • 10.09.08 | crowdSPRING

    Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing […]

  • 10.07.08 | Listonomics

    Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing […]

  • 10.02.08 | New Levels of Awesomeness

    Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing […]

  • 09.17.08 | Veggieblog (?)

    Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing […]

  • 09.10.08 | Birthday!

    Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing […]

  • 09.01.08 | Life, slowly

    Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing […]

  • 08.06.08 | How I’m rejecting the computer

    Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing […]

  • 04.09.08 | CSS Naked Day!

    Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing […]

  • 03.08.08 | To those I meet at SXSW:

    Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing […]

  • 01.16.08 | 90% There

    Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing […]

  • 12.09.07 | Hello world?

    Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing […]

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  • 01.02.09 | Resolutions

    The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange […]

  • 12.11.08 | Don’t Settle For Easy

    The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange […]

  • 11.25.08 | Dreams and Risk-Taking

    The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange […]

  • 11.24.08 | Inspiration

    The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange […]

  • 10.23.08 | Multivariate Testing: Know what works

    The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange […]

  • 10.17.08 | Speaking at Silicon Valley Geek Dinner

    The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange […]

  • 10.17.08 | Hello gorgeous

    The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange […]

  • 10.14.08 | How do you do it?

    The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange […]

  • 10.09.08 | crowdSPRING

    The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange […]

  • 10.07.08 | Listonomics

    The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange […]

  • 10.02.08 | New Levels of Awesomeness

    The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange […]

  • 09.17.08 | Veggieblog (?)

    The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange […]

  • 09.10.08 | Birthday!

    The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange […]

  • 09.01.08 | Life, slowly

    The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange […]

  • 08.06.08 | How I’m rejecting the computer

    The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange […]

  • 04.09.08 | CSS Naked Day!

    The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange […]

  • 03.08.08 | To those I meet at SXSW:

    The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange […]

  • 01.16.08 | 90% There

    The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange […]

  • 12.09.07 | Hello world?

    The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange […]

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  • 01.02.09 | Resolutions

    Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

    Housing Works.

  • 12.11.08 | Don’t Settle For Easy

    Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

    Housing Works.

  • 11.25.08 | Dreams and Risk-Taking

    Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

    Housing Works.

  • 11.24.08 | Inspiration

    Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

    Housing Works.

  • 10.23.08 | Multivariate Testing: Know what works

    Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

    Housing Works.

  • 10.17.08 | Speaking at Silicon Valley Geek Dinner

    Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

    Housing Works.

  • 10.17.08 | Hello gorgeous

    Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

    Housing Works.

  • 10.14.08 | How do you do it?

    Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

    Housing Works.

  • 10.09.08 | crowdSPRING

    Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

    Housing Works.

  • 10.07.08 | Listonomics

    Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

    Housing Works.

  • 10.02.08 | New Levels of Awesomeness

    Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

    Housing Works.

  • 09.17.08 | Veggieblog (?)

    Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

    Housing Works.

  • 09.10.08 | Birthday!

    Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

    Housing Works.

  • 09.01.08 | Life, slowly

    Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

    Housing Works.

  • 08.06.08 | How I’m rejecting the computer

    Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

    Housing Works.

  • 04.09.08 | CSS Naked Day!

    Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

    Housing Works.

  • 03.08.08 | To those I meet at SXSW:

    Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

    Housing Works.

  • 01.16.08 | 90% There

    Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

    Housing Works.

  • 12.09.07 | Hello world?

    Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

    Housing Works.

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  • 01.02.09 | Resolutions

    Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

    crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

    I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of […]

  • 12.11.08 | Don’t Settle For Easy

    Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

    crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

    I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of […]

  • 11.25.08 | Dreams and Risk-Taking

    Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

    crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

    I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of […]

  • 11.24.08 | Inspiration

    Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

    crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

    I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of […]

  • 10.23.08 | Multivariate Testing: Know what works

    Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

    crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

    I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of […]

  • 10.17.08 | Speaking at Silicon Valley Geek Dinner

    Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

    crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

    I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of […]

  • 10.17.08 | Hello gorgeous

    Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

    crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

    I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of […]

  • 10.14.08 | How do you do it?

    Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

    crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

    I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of […]

  • 10.09.08 | crowdSPRING

    Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

    crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

    I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of […]

  • 10.07.08 | Listonomics

    Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

    crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

    I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of […]

  • 10.02.08 | New Levels of Awesomeness

    Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

    crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

    I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of […]

  • 09.17.08 | Veggieblog (?)

    Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

    crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

    I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of […]

  • 09.10.08 | Birthday!

    Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

    crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

    I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of […]

  • 09.01.08 | Life, slowly

    Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

    crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

    I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of […]

  • 08.06.08 | How I’m rejecting the computer

    Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

    crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

    I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of […]

  • 04.09.08 | CSS Naked Day!

    Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

    crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

    I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of […]

  • 03.08.08 | To those I meet at SXSW:

    Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

    crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

    I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of […]

  • 01.16.08 | 90% There

    Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

    crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

    I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of […]

  • 12.09.07 | Hello world?

    Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

    crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

    I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of […]

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  • 01.02.09 | Resolutions

    I just received the great honor of being made an contributor to Listonomics! It’s a fun side project; we’re basically collected funny, informational, and interesting lists and aggregating them on the blog. I’ll start contributing soon, but if you have any great lists of your own, submit them to contact@listonomics.com. Enjoy!

  • 12.11.08 | Don’t Settle For Easy

    I just received the great honor of being made an contributor to Listonomics! It’s a fun side project; we’re basically collected funny, informational, and interesting lists and aggregating them on the blog. I’ll start contributing soon, but if you have any great lists of your own, submit them to contact@listonomics.com. Enjoy!

  • 11.25.08 | Dreams and Risk-Taking

    I just received the great honor of being made an contributor to Listonomics! It’s a fun side project; we’re basically collected funny, informational, and interesting lists and aggregating them on the blog. I’ll start contributing soon, but if you have any great lists of your own, submit them to contact@listonomics.com. Enjoy!

  • 11.24.08 | Inspiration

    I just received the great honor of being made an contributor to Listonomics! It’s a fun side project; we’re basically collected funny, informational, and interesting lists and aggregating them on the blog. I’ll start contributing soon, but if you have any great lists of your own, submit them to contact@listonomics.com. Enjoy!

  • 10.23.08 | Multivariate Testing: Know what works

    I just received the great honor of being made an contributor to Listonomics! It’s a fun side project; we’re basically collected funny, informational, and interesting lists and aggregating them on the blog. I’ll start contributing soon, but if you have any great lists of your own, submit them to contact@listonomics.com. Enjoy!

  • 10.17.08 | Speaking at Silicon Valley Geek Dinner

    I just received the great honor of being made an contributor to Listonomics! It’s a fun side project; we’re basically collected funny, informational, and interesting lists and aggregating them on the blog. I’ll start contributing soon, but if you have any great lists of your own, submit them to contact@listonomics.com. Enjoy!

  • 10.17.08 | Hello gorgeous

    I just received the great honor of being made an contributor to Listonomics! It’s a fun side project; we’re basically collected funny, informational, and interesting lists and aggregating them on the blog. I’ll start contributing soon, but if you have any great lists of your own, submit them to contact@listonomics.com. Enjoy!

  • 10.14.08 | How do you do it?

    I just received the great honor of being made an contributor to Listonomics! It’s a fun side project; we’re basically collected funny, informational, and interesting lists and aggregating them on the blog. I’ll start contributing soon, but if you have any great lists of your own, submit them to contact@listonomics.com. Enjoy!

  • 10.09.08 | crowdSPRING

    I just received the great honor of being made an contributor to Listonomics! It’s a fun side project; we’re basically collected funny, informational, and interesting lists and aggregating them on the blog. I’ll start contributing soon, but if you have any great lists of your own, submit them to contact@listonomics.com. Enjoy!

  • 10.07.08 | Listonomics

    I just received the great honor of being made an contributor to Listonomics! It’s a fun side project; we’re basically collected funny, informational, and interesting lists and aggregating them on the blog. I’ll start contributing soon, but if you have any great lists of your own, submit them to contact@listonomics.com. Enjoy!

  • 10.02.08 | New Levels of Awesomeness

    I just received the great honor of being made an contributor to Listonomics! It’s a fun side project; we’re basically collected funny, informational, and interesting lists and aggregating them on the blog. I’ll start contributing soon, but if you have any great lists of your own, submit them to contact@listonomics.com. Enjoy!

  • 09.17.08 | Veggieblog (?)

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  • 09.10.08 | Birthday!

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  • 09.01.08 | Life, slowly

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  • 08.06.08 | How I’m rejecting the computer

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  • 04.09.08 | CSS Naked Day!

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  • 03.08.08 | To those I meet at SXSW:

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  • 01.16.08 | 90% There

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  • 12.09.07 | Hello world?

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Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

Don’t Settle For Easy

Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Keep working, keep learning, and don’t be discouraged. Apprentice yourself to, or work with, people who know what they’re doing. Don’t settle for easy. Don’t be too lenient on your own work. Don’t accept the first job you’re offered. Don’t stay in a bad job, you’ll be miserable all the time, and you’ll have nothing to show for your years.

Be excited! You’re inventing something new on the planet. Imitate to get started, sure, but don’t settle for copying any master, because nobody has really figured this out yet, and the person who figures it out best just might be you.

~Jeffrey Zeldman at designinterviews.com

Multivariate Testing: Know what works

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

The day after my presentation on multivariate testing at the Geek Dinner, I kept thinking about how I was so astonished that almost no one there knew about or worked with multivariate testing. Perhaps I am being a bit self-deprecating, but I keep thinking that everyone else knows more than I do; so it’s strange (and enlightening) that there is a field where I can educate. I wanted to give a quick down down of what I talked about, and hopefully get a bit more information out there.

A/B Testing; smaller and easier

A/B Testing (or Split Tests) is the more well-known, easier to understand cousin of MVT. Basically, take your website, and create an alternate version — different design, different copy, anything you like — and set up your server to send 50% of your visitors to one version and 50% of your visitors to another. Then, you use your basic analytics package (like Google Analytics) or a click-tracking software (like Clicktracks), and determine which version of your website performs better depending on a certain metric (like how many visitors on each filled out a “Request Info” form).

Enter Multivariate Testing, A/B’s intimidating but really awesome cousin

The simplest difference between A/B and MVT is the number of “versions” you have on your website. In MVT, generally you set up a number of “factors” of things you will change. These factors could be:

  • Link Color
  • Header Image
  • Introductory Text
  • Background color/pattern
  • Button color
  • Button Text
  • Logo Location
  • Form Location
  • Number of Form Fields
  • So on and so forth…

Variations of these above factors, for something like “Link Color”, would be “Blue Link Color” and “Green Link Color”. A MVT is simply taking of all these factors and variations to create every single combination and finding out which combination of everything would create the best possible version of your website.

Full Factorial vs. Fractional Factorial

Obviously, the more factors and variations you combine, the larger exponentially the number of versions to test would become. A full factorial is simply every single version is tested, and a fractional factorial is only a subset of the number of variations — testing a random fourth of the entire number or so. This isn’t going to give perfect results, but my particular package will analyze how each of the groups perform, and determines which factors give the most positive impact and which give the most negative impact. So if you have a ton of ideas and things to test, you can use a fractional factorial to weed out the bad and negative ideas, then run a full factorial to find the best combination of the winning variations.

More information to come…

Hopefully the above makes sense; I’m going to write more about MVT testing soon but this post should give a good, quick overview of what A/B and Multivariate testing are and what they can do. If you have any questions, let me know in the comments!

Hello gorgeous

Friday, October 17th, 2008
Housing Works

Holy moly Happy Cog. Can I ever be granted the amazing web design skills of your entire team? Wibble wibble wibble.

Housing Works.

crowdSPRING

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Awhile back I posted on twitter a rather enigmatic message. Well, it didn’t take me too long to see the light and jump back into the arms and the opinions of the design community.

crowdSPRING, the spec-work community

I heard about crowdSPRING through a post on 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog. And while I have been aware of the NO!SPEC campaign for awhile, I was intrigued by what crowdSPRING offered. Basically, I was weak: I’m kind of poor right now, aching for fulfilling (and paying) projects, and the prospect of creating just a .psd of a website in exchange for $600-$1400 was very intriguing.

I told myself that I was to spend no more than an hour on a comp, submit it, and let it go if it didn’t do well. I knew I would be wasting my time if I devoted any time to winning these contests but figured if $700 was on the line, I could spare an hour in the evening. I would also get more experience at creating comps-on-the-fly; a dangerous problem I have is being way-too-picky and taking way-too-long on a project just to get a comp up.

Clients as Art Directors

Well… I didn’t take into account that if my initial comp went well (usually, since my design skillz are at or above the average crowdSPRING designer), I would then spend time creating additional and additional comp for every whim of the client. Never mind that some of their suggestions would harm the flow of the website or made no sense regarding their users — it was what THEY wanted WHEN they wanted and if you don’t do it, someone else will and you’d lose the “contest”.

Screw. That.

Seriously. I did not spend time learning about information architecture and user behavior patterns and general good design to give up my right to say, “No, that isn’t right, and here’s why.” I would attempt to explain on the comments why I did not do exactly what they wanted me to do and why, but I would get steamrolled by the next designer putting a skin on their ideas.

I consider it lesson learned; fast money will never be easy money. I could “bend over” and do what these clients wanted and hope that maybe they’ll pick my design, but now it seems like a really bad gamble on my time. Design community: you were right, and I’ll not touch spec-work again!

Listonomics

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

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