New Icons To Ring in the New Year
I have been overly silent since the end of 2009, merely alluding to some changes on this blog. My goal, which will become more clear in the coming weeks, is to devote considerable time thinking on how...
View ArticleNew Beginnings
Since sometime in 2007, I have had the fortune to be self-employed. The process was at first frightening, quickly evolved into empowering and eventually phased into a quite comfortable space. Like all...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Iconic and Off Franklin Get Updates
I have been sitting on these updates for a few days, but I needed some time to get them ready for release. Iconic now has 6 new icons and Off Franklin has a decent number of new features and fixes. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More Iconic Updates
While it may look like not too much is going on at this site, there’s actually a lot of very small things happening. I have not had the time to devote to a full article (although I have my next big...
View ArticleSome Random Dude Has Advertising (And Why That's a Good Thing)
This has been a long time coming, but Some Random Dude is now running advertisements. I am pleased to write that I have joined the InfluAds network as one of their community members. You have probably...
View ArticleMaking Franklin Street Happen
When I first relaunched Some Random Dude, which feels like eons ago, I made the big promise that I was going to release everything I made as open source. That idea is still very important to me, but it...
View ArticleApologies For the Downtime
It has been a while since the last post around here, I wanted to give a quick update that my negligence is due to some family emergencies that have been taking a significant amount of my time and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An Iconic Update
It has been a while since I have had time to work on personal projects. In between all the madness, I had been working on some new icons for the Iconic set and I finally got to roll them out. There are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Another Iconic Update, 22 More Icons
Well, that didn’t take long… Less than two weeks ago, I updated Iconic with 18 new icons. I have had some time on my hands as of late, so I was able to add another 22 icons to the collection. This...
View ArticleHunchWorks UX Week Talk
I had the pleasure to co-present at UX Week 2011 about HunchWorks. Chris van der Walt and I talked about the importance of HunchWorks and how the design for this project was quite different than your...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Guardian Opens Up Their News Cycle
About a year ago, I wrote about the state of online content publishing and how we need to expand our definition of sharing around our content. Most of the article revolved around what happened after a...
View ArticlePlone Conference Presentation
I wanted to share the deck from the presentation I gave last week at Plone Conference 2011. I had a wonderful time giving it — the conference organizers were great along with the audience being warm...
View ArticleSome Random Dude is Now (More) Responsive
In the past two weeks, I was able to update this site (and more importantly, the open source theme behind it) to have a responsive layout. This was the last big hurdle for me to get a final-ish version...
View ArticleIntroducing Frank
It has been a long time coming. The WordPress theme running this site, which I have named Frank, is now officially available to use. The theme has been available for some time now, but it was not up to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Iconic and Cue on The Noun Project
I am happy to announce that Iconic and Cue have been added as featured collections of The Noun Project. It has been my goal to transition these sets from a personal project to a public resource. Moving...
View ArticleThe Status Update Needs an Open Standard
Twitter’s recent API shenanigans have been exhaustively documented. Like it or not, Twitter is making a business decision and there is little that anyone can do about it. App.net has made a play to...
View ArticleFrank 0.9.2 Released
It’s been a long time coming, but the next version of Frank has been released. This is a significant update and is intended to set the stage for the foreseeable future releases. Perhaps the biggest...
View ArticleEverything is a Prototype
Interaction design is quickly changing. Code is becoming a design medium which has made prototyping a more common design process. This is a step in the right direction, but is missing the point....
View ArticleFrank 0.10.0 is coming
Frank 0.10.0 is in the works and it marks a pretty considerable shift from prior releases. The upcoming version has removed quite a few features to focus entirely on the reading experience. The 0.10.0...
View ArticleLife/Work Updates
It’s been a while since I’ve last blogged here, for good reason. As most of you probably know, I recently completed the Iconic Kickstarter campaign with my two partners at Waybury. This has predictably...
View Article
