I will engage only in design activities that improve life, both environmental and human. I will recognize that design that does not improve life is a form of apathy and that “doing no harm” is not enough. I will engage only in design processes that are respectful, generative, catalytic, and productive. Excerpt from The Designer’s [...]
Category Archives: Work
Moving Target
March 19, 2012 – 5:00 pm
Of all the things advertisers do online, one of the most annoying to me has to be the ad that expands, pushing down the entire page. The problem here is not when it’s user-initiated, it’s when it happens automatically, after I’ve already started reading the article. Take a look at this, and see where the [...]
AKQA: 2011 Adweek Agency of the year
December 12, 2011 – 9:46 am
I woke up to my phone buzzing at 2am with emails from our London office sharing the news, we’d been announced as Adweek’s digital agency of the year. I’ve only been with AKQA for 8 months, but this is a fantastic gift, and I’m truly proud to be a part of this family. http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/agency-year-akqa-137015
Freshly
November 21, 2011 – 12:16 pm
I’ve been working on something for a long time, and finally got around to making it happen. Freshly is a way to find out what farmers’ market is near you, open, now. It’s driven by trying to remember when the markets are open, and where they are on which days. I wanted something that would [...]
The future of QR codes
October 23, 2011 – 7:38 pm
It’s been some time now that we’ve been trying to get QR codes working as a marketing or user experience conduit, and it’s still just not working. For the majority of the smartphone-using public, QR codes are just not an option. They don’t know what a QR code is, they don’t know what to do [...]
