Articles

An incomplete list of my published essays (2004-present).

Fast Company's Co.Design

• Three Keys To Making Giant Leaps / November, 2011
• Forget "User Friendliness" / October, 2011
• The Secret To Apple's Long-Term Success / October, 2011

Boxes and Arrows

• The Music Outlives the Band / November, 2012

.Net Magazine

• Applying Micro-Level Design Criteria / December, 2011
• Stop banning Lorem Ipsum: a rebuttal / October, 2011
• 7 Ways Web Conferences Suck (and How to Fix Them) / September, 2011

Peachpit.com

• The Mobile Future of UX / October, 2011
• Question Everything / September, 2011
• Merit Over Marketing: A Manifesto / July, 2011
• Stupid User Syndrome: Why We Become Idiots Online (and What Web Designers Can Do About It) / July, 2008
• Designing the Moment, 5 tips in 5 Days, Part 1 / June, 2008
• Designing the Moment, 5 tips in 5 Days, Part 2 / June, 2008
• Designing the Moment, 5 tips in 5 Days, Part 3 / June, 2008
• Designing the Moment, 5 tips in 5 Days, Part 4 / June, 2008
• Designing the Moment, 5 tips in 5 Days, Part 5 / June, 2008
• Redefining User-Centered Design, Part 1 / December, 2007
• Redefining User-Centered Design, Part 2 / January, 2008
• Redefining User-Centered Design, Part 3 / February, 2008

A List Apart

• The Myth of Usability Testing / October, 2009

UIE.com

• Web Anatomy: Introducing Interaction Design Frameworks / February, 2009

Vitamin

• Communicating Web 2.0 Through Design / 2007
• Deliverables That Work: Design Description Documents / August, 2007
• Read More … About Progressive Disclosure / September, 2007

InformIt.com

• Designing the Obvious clinics (series of reviews based on the book) / 2007
• Designing the Obvious (7-part series) / 2006
• Optimizing Your Flash 8 Workspace and Revealing Hidden Features / 2005
• Ten Minutes with Flash (20-article series) / 2005
• Using Contribute 2 / 2005

Adobe.com

• Design for Mental Models (Book excerpt) / June, 2007 / Adobe.com
• Interface surgery: Converting an implementation-model design into a mental-model design (Book excerpt) / March, 2007

Macromedia Developer Center

• Best Practices for Flash Player Detection / May, 2006

Macromedia Edge Newsletter

• A First Look at Flash Professional 8 / August, 2005
• How to Bulletproof Your Web Application / April, 2005

Macromedia Logged In

• gotoAndPlay(); A Developer’s Take on MAX 2004 / November, 2004