Efficiency and effectiveness are equally important to freelance designers and small design firms (and large ones as well, but that won’t be the focus of this article). There are obviously any number of different things you can do to improve your workflow or to produce a better end result for y...

While keeping up on my friend and Dean of the School of Business at the University of Utah I've run across some interesting blog posts; both his and others on an aggregate blog called "connectblogs." One writer, Katie Reeder, caught my eye with this post so I thought I'd share it in its entirety giv...

In this day and age, being fiscally aware and responsible are really important things - I want to know where my money is going, and in what fashion. Service industries such as ours have always been plagued with a lack of clarity in pricing. At digital-telepathy, we believe that you should have an id...

A good part of the last week has been spent tinkering away with my doll prototypes. Tinkering is a nice word for it really. It’s been more like CUT and HACK, RIP and CURSE. But I have finally made a doll that I can look at and think “yep, that’s where I was trying to get to.”...

Part of having a successful website is attracting visitors. Keeping those visitors on your site, however, is another topic altogether. Of course, once you have the visitor on your site you’ll want to keep them around for a while rather than seeing them quickly leaving to go somewhere else. In ...

If you’ve done much design or development work for clients you know that getting effective feedback from the client is critical to the success of the project. Unfortunately, this can sometimes be a challenge. Depending on the types of clients that you work with, you may find that some of them ...

Interview with Martin Konrad Gloeckle, NYC, on consumer co-design and his series of "un-readymade" designs, a great interpretation of the customization trend When I saw these pictures, I was fascinated immediately ... Martin Konrad Gloeckle, an Industrial Designer currently based in New York City, c...

In one of the comments on my last post, Janet asked if I could direct her to some posts about the Selva Skirt.  There is a category for it (look on the lower right hand part of the page), but there aren't many posts to be found, simply because the Selva Skirt pattern was created for publication...

Richard Farson claims that “Architecture has commoditized itself.� ...gone and done turned itself into a commodity. It is our fault he says. His presentation late last year, passed on to me by Barbara Hendricks and called “Embracing the Paradoxes of Sustainability� blames Architects for taki...

While keeping up on my friend and Dean of the School of Business at the University of Utah I've run across some interesting blog posts; both his and others on an aggregate blog called "connectblogs." One writer, Katie Reeder, caught my eye with this post so I thought I'd share it in its entirety giv...