7 January 2013, Baked by Andy Budd
We live in a world of instant gratification, so is it any wonder that clients expect their projects to start yesterday and ship tomorrow, irrespective of how long the work actually takes? Clients...
View Article7 February 2013, baked by Ben Sauer
When I think about what it means to be a craftsman, I think about my friend Jon; he builds houses. He’ll probably do that the same way for the rest of his life. Thinking about his craft led me to a...
View Article9 March 2013, baked by Josh Emerson
The False Dilemma Today, I asked myself the question “Why do we often form extreme opinions on things, when in reality our opinion often lies in the midground”. I have little knowledge of psychology,...
View Article8 April 2013, baked by Jeremy Keith
I had the great pleasure of organising the Responsive Day Out here in Brighton last month. It was a lovely gathering of front-end developers and designers getting together to swap stories and cry on...
View Article5 May 2013, baked by Josh Emerson
50:50 Along with Alastair Lockie, I run a Code Club at Queens Park Primary School, Brighton. Every Wednesday after school, the kids learn how to make games and more recently, how to make websites. It’s...
View Article6 June 2013, baked by Paul Robert Lloyd
Works well with others Four years ago, I was hired by Clearleft as a visual designer. Although it was recognised that I could write good front-end code, the nature of projects at that time meant...
View Article7 July 2013, baked by Ben Sauer
At my secondary school, the head of drama was Peter Maric, a fiery Northerner with Slavic roots who would shout, spit and swear his way through the day just to keep the spirit of the theatre alive. I...
View Article20 July 2013, baked by Andy Budd
Responsive design is an integrated process that requires designers and developers to work in harmony. It’s not a process that involves a designer mocking up 3 different versions of a page (small,...
View Article8 August 2013, baked by Viviana Doctorovich
Empathy is for everyone It’s been a few weeks since the project started and I’ve been spending all my time getting to know the users. I’ve listened to them talk about their lives, hopes and fears. I’ve...
View Article20 September 2013, baked by Andy Budd
During the early years of Clearleft we’d say yes to every client that came our way, for fear it’d be the last. A week later our dream project would come along and we’d have to turn it down due to lack...
View Article7 October 2013, baked by Andy Parker
I regularly reflect on the story of the Surveyor project at NASA as described in Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt. If nobody knew what the lunar surface was comprised of, how were they...
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