I love these posters that hang on the walls of the YouVersion office (aka the “Digerati Den”) in the LifeChurch.tv central office.

A girl scout recently emailed me some questions. She was doing a project and wanted to know about my career as a web designer. I thought I’d post this here because I wrote it very simple language, so this might help some of my family members and friends who don’t really understand what I do :)

Since the day my parents first bought the IBM PS2 computer for the family when I was in high school, every monitor display that I’ve used has been in a landscape orientation. It’s an assumption I never questioned.

Jeffrey Zeldman has probably influenced more web designers than anyone else, myself being one of them. Last week I watched his presentation entitled “The Web Comes of Age”.

While redesigning one of our upcoming YouVersion Bible apps, I learned a valuable lesson. Even though an app is made up of multiple screens, it is one app. It seems basic, but it’s easy to miss that fundamental principle when you’re deep in the middle of a design project.

What a hideously dull title! I mean, who says “pragmatism”? For much of my career I was the designer and the developer for each project I touched. Today however, unless I take on a small freelance project, I’m no longer the developer.

Listening and thinking you’re listening are two different things entirely. We can think we hear and believe we understand, but totally miss the point of what someone is trying to say. My wife would never tell you about my weaknesses, because she’s cool like that. But she would tell me …if I asked her to. [...]

I recently designed an app and a website for Relate Labs called Gust. It’s an app that allows you to send pre-written SMS (text) messages. This works great for common messages that you want to send. If you think you might need to send a message later on, you can write it now and save [...]

This week, I released a redesign website for Northwest Radiology Consultants.

Radiologists sit in dark rooms and stare at images on a computer screen for much of the day, so they wanted a dark background site to reflect the time they spend reading x-ray images.

When I started making websites in 2000, I had to hone in on every phase of a project: concept, design, usability, database architecture, coding, copywriting, marketing, and analytics. I took pride in being a jack-of-all-trades. I liked being able to do a variety of useful things pretty well. Ten years later, the web is a [...]