Commerce, industries, economics and the practice and implications of good old-fashioned capitalism.
Wed 20 Mar
2013
Where is the clear cut, indispensable brand leader in news for your phone?
Fri 04 May
2012
How much people who price tickets know about people who buy tickets, and vice versa.
Wed 22 Feb
2012
Imagining what it would be like to explain the airline industry if it were brand new today.
Mon 12 Dec
2011
Lessons for aspiring design entrepreneurs from the company I co-founded a decade ago.
Wed 17 Aug
2011
A follow-up to my post from a few weeks back in which I praise the design services industry.
Wed 20 Jul
2011
Why I decided to build a new product business and not a new client services business.
Fri 18 Mar
2011
Thoughts on the opportunity cost of The New York Times’ pay wall.
Thu 24 Feb
2011
Getting home inventory software on the cloud would get me to inventory my own stuff.
Tue 25 Jan
2011
Larry Page has an opportunity to do something very different with Google. If he wants.
Tue 16 Nov
2010
Thoughts on quality of life for newly minted designers.
Mon 04 Oct
2010
Lessons from Wesabe v. Mint and why personal finance software misses the mark.
Mon 30 Aug
2010
A round-up of suggestions from Twitter on time logging software.
Tue 24 Aug
2010
We have the means to close contracts digitally, yet we’re resigned to doing things the old fashioned way.
Mon 16 Aug
2010
The problem of ATM skimmers highlights the banking industry’s lack of design vision.
Thu 08 Apr
2010
The first installment in my new, regular column for Print Magazine wrestles with whether the iPad offers any hope for art direction.
Wed 31 Mar
2010
Looking at four months of sales data for my WordPress theme.
Tue 24 Nov
2009
With its new brand identity, AOL tries to do two very difficult things at once.
Mon 06 Jul
2009
In which I rant in as directionless and messy a fashion as befits the directionless and messy quality of home theater setups.
Wed 15 Oct
2008
What the failure of banks like Washington Mutual can teach us about Web applications.
Mon 04 Feb
2008
Where are the design advocates when a design-savvy company fails?
Wed 10 Oct
2007
When it’s time to change, you’ve got to rearrange. Unless you’re the New York Yankees.
Tue 21 Aug
2007
Why it’s good that the Internet is killing boutiques.
Thu 08 Mar
2007
Interrupting this program for a word from your blogger.
Fri 08 Dec
2006
Casting about for a replacement personal banking application.
Tue 07 Nov
2006
Life on the inside… of an in-house design group.
Mon 21 Aug
2006
Getting good design out of a surfeit of workplace meetings.
Thu 04 May
2006
First day of my first time at Creative Good’s Gel Conference.
Fri 14 Apr
2006
Things to look for when looking for things that make good design managers.
Mon 27 Feb
2006
Newsvine aims to hybridize the unwashed masses and the mainstream media.
Mon 12 Dec
2005
Customer service lines are user interfaces too.
Fri 08 Jul
2005
Billing customers got you down? Try Blinksale.
Sun 19 Jun
2005
A long-winded excuse for an extremely busy period of not doing anything on this Web site.
Mon 18 Apr
2005
Thoughts on Adobe’s announced acquisition of Macromedia.
Thu 27 Jan
2005
Tips on how to make a great impression when interviewed by yours truly.
Wed 31 Mar
2004
My award for the worst interface in a best-selling, market-leading software application goes to…
Thu 12 Feb
2004
Finally revealed: secrets to success with PowerPoint!
Fri 21 Nov
2003
The ghosts of a once-high flying dotcom haunts the Internet still.
Thu 17 Jul
2003
Two reasons why I’m sure there will be another Internet boom.
Tue 01 Jul
2003
Longtime, well-liked software publisher Casady & Greene have closed shop.
Mon 12 May
2003
The FCC is set to vote on significant changes in media ownership rules, virtually without public debate.
Mon 28 Apr
2003
The problem with the music industry is that the compact disc format itself has been completely devalued.
Mon 17 Feb
2003
A marriage made in heaven: Google has bought Pyra.
Fri 14 Feb
2003
Business Week calls the music industrys piracy numbers and credibility into question.
Tue 11 Feb
2003
Bob Hearn, co-creator of ClarisWorks, tells the story of that product and the almost-legendary Claris Corporation.
Tue 12 Nov
2002
The number one lesson Ive learned about business.
Tue 24 Sep
2002
The Chill Factor Web site collects frightening samples of the corporate worlds legal bullying.
Wed 28 Feb
2001
An unscientific visualization of whats happening with the Internet consulting industry