Giant Face Houses
What’s new? I recently gave a talk about generative AI at AWS. I’m heading to Yosemite this week and made a few nightmarish creations with emojis in Midjourney. As I mentioned, I gave a talk about...
View ArticleThe Pooch Pontoon
For Holly’s birthday this year we chartered a Pooch Pontoon on Lake Lanier for an afternoon. Basically, they cover the boat in birthday decorations and then ferry you to an island where the dogs can...
View ArticleDafuskie and Hunting Island 2023
One of our favorite things to do is take road trips. Holly and I both enjoy exploring places and the dogs do great in the car. This month we decided to visit a few of the islands off the cost of South...
View ArticleYosemite August 2023
I’ve been to Yosemite a couple dozen times over the years. The park has many spectacular sights, spots and trails. It’s one of my absolute favorite places to visit. And I’ve always been able to walk...
View Article2023 Year in Review
Back in 2014 I published my first Year in Review. That makes this the 10th entry and marks a decade of these reviews. First, I am grateful to all of you. Each year, after publishing these reviews, I...
View ArticleHide or Disable
Should we hide or disable a specific element? This is a topic that comes up frequently. Typically, it is resolved in a meeting where engineers, designers and product people present their arguments for...
View ArticleDesigner News is Dead
Designer News, once a daily destination for product designers, is dead. For many years, it was the best place on the internet to discuss designing and building software. The community was recently sold...
View ArticleSo Long and Thanks for All the Hi-Fives
When I began sending email newsletters for Signal Tower in 2013, I turned to a hometown business with a peculiar name and loveable mascot—Mailchimp. The Mailchimp of the early 2010s was rad. They would...
View ArticleDesigning Command Palettes
From time to time the design team puts together short talks on various things. They could be a work-in-progress feature, a new design pattern or just something of interest. With my sabbatical coming up...
View ArticleJekyll Island 2024
We’ve been traveling constantly since our wedding. Our first stop on that tour was a last-minute trip to Jekyll Island, GA for my birthday. I’m on sabbatical, so why not? I’ve never been to Jekyll, but...
View ArticleCosta Rica Honeymoon
Holly and I didn’t decide where to go on our honeymoon until after our wedding. It was cool in the mountains of North Carolina when we got married, so we wanted to go somewhere warm. We looked at a ton...
View ArticlePrizePicks: The Early Days
It was 10 years ago that Adam, Tareq and I came together to start SidePrize, the fantasy sports company that most know today as PrizePicks. It seems like just yesterday that the six of us moved into...
View ArticleRichard “Pop” Sullivan
For years I used email drafts as quick ways to gather notes. I’d hit compose, start writing notes and leave them as a draft until I needed them later. Obviously, there are a ton of notes that end up...
View ArticleDerby Days
October is one of is one of my favorite months, and recently we’ve had some perfect porch-sitting weather here in Atlanta. Our neighborhood has a lot of great events lined up too. One of my favorites...
View Article