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I probably should have read a few brand promises from other companies before resolving that ours is “done” or “right,” but we believe that we?re somewhat unique as a company, in many respects. So we?re going with this one. Therefore, this is something of a blind study. I hope it might spark some thought on the subject and hope that it might even help others working on similar efforts.

This is a cry for help. No, really. Our groovy little unit, Unit Interactive, is awash in cool projects and we need a world-class designer/developer to join our team. If this describes you and you're in the Dallas area Metroplex, please keep reading and heed the clarion call!

I?ve been a martial arts student for a couple of decades and in that time I?ve known quite a few others who were brilliant technicians and were otherwise formidable individuals, but lacked a fundamental skill set: the ability to fall safely and gracefully. This is a grave omission, because training with the belief that things will always go well and as-planned is delusional. Delusion is not a sound context for any serious endeavor; like design, for instance.

My 10-year old son walked up to me last month while I was watching the news and said, “Dad, I want a website.” I turned down the TV and asked why on earth he wanted a website. “To talk about the books I read,” he answered. I said I wasn?t sure that his friends would be all that interested in what he had to say about books. “Well, there might be lots of kids out there who are wondering what are some good books to read. I can help with that.” Wow.

For other crafts and in other industries, standards are used to preserve and refer to quality. Why not in Web craft? This episode examines the gulf between Web standards and the idea of Web craft quality, and how some of design's cultural and information leaders perpetuate a misunderstanding of the medium.

As good design further penetrates the Web, once highly-regarded conventions fall into disfavor and are replaced by more effective ones. Yet some flawed conventions persist. In fact, they persist on some pretty high-profile websites; to their detriment.

This episode discusses 4 things you must do well in order to get more clients, better clients, and better projects.

This episode describes a sample project process from beginning to end.

Levity, kindness, joy, compassion, possibility, potential, hope, faith, strength, resolve, will, love.

This episode examines how our design career may or may not fit with our purpose in life, and how we might discover that purpose in order to become whole.