Making.
Tools, hacks, side projects, this site
- MX Conference
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the MX Conference in San Francisco. MX stands for Managing Experience, and is targeted at people like me: managers of creative teams attempting to produce great user experiences. The conference is put on by the folks at Adaptive Path, who have a fair amount...
- Welcome to the Undesign
Over the past two years, I’ve redesigned this website about 5 times, but never finished. Talk about frustrating. Eventually, I realized that I was getting nowhere, and that instead of a redesign, what I really needed was an undesign. So that’s what I did. Welcome to wrkng -1.0, my first undesign. La...
- Carbon Tax Center Redesign
Today, we launched a redesign of the Carbon Tax Center website. The primary goal was to create a more impactful homepage that communicates CTC’s mission quickly and clearly. In doing so, we also reworked the site header (to remove distracting and unncessary graphics), and crispened up the typography...
- Streetfilms Launched
I’m proud to announce the launch of StreetFilms, the new home of Clarence Eckerson’s short films about Livable Streets, and another site in the New York City Streets Renaissance family.Back when I was in college, riding the CalTrain to San Jose for work, I thought that one day I might make Public Se...
- Streetsblog Launched
I am happy to announce the launch of another great NYC website: StreetsBlog. A project of the NYC Streets Renaissance Campaign and edited by NYC transportation/planning blogger Aaron Naparstek, this site will take a critical look at transportation issues in our area. I’ve been a fan of Aaron’s writi...
- GRDN featured at CubeCart.com
GRDN has been getting a lot of attention lately – thanks to everyone for sending in your comments. Most notably, it has been chosen as a featured case study at CubeCart.com (one of two, randomly highlighted on the homepage). Cube Cart is the e-commerce package we used, chosen mainly because it’s the...
- And off they go…
I’m proud to say that PPS and GRDN are both up and running. In fact, just the day after opening, GRDN got their first web order. Way to go! Continue reading
- Launch Weekend!
This weekend will be big – two great launches are coming up – the new and improved GRDN site, and a redesiged and realigned PPS.org. Stay tuned… Continue reading
- Hello, World!
This is the first post of the newly redesigned site. It’s nothing fancy, but I’m excited because I’ve always wanted a black-on-black site (and haven’t had the nerve to do it until now). I’ll be adding more as I have time over the next few weeks. Continue reading