How to Stay Busy – And Profitable – In a Choppy Economy

I work with enough designers to know just how painful the current economic downturn has been to the other half of the creative community. For every project that goes forward, it sometimes seems like three or four are being postponed or canceled altogether. But that...

Designer Interviews: The Old State

Curtis Hale @CowboyCurtis30 (Partner, Art Director) and Travis McElroy @travisoldstate (Owner, Creative Director) form The Old State @TheOldState were gracious enough to sit down with me via Skype to discuss their website redesign and some thoughts behind their brand....

Quick update with Hiten Shah

Recently I was able to get Hiten Shah (@hnshah) to sit down with us and give us a quick run down of what he’s got going on with his great web products: KissMetrics, CrazyEgg, Survey.io to name just three. Keep in mind Hiten is probably the coolest person...

Designer Interviews: Thoughtbot.com

We had the good fortune to sit down for a discussion with Kevin Burg & Fred Yates over Skype for a little behind the scenes on what went into the designing and building of thoughtbot.com which we did a screen review of earlier this month. Some of the connection...