As humans we love the idea that we’re the smartest species on earth. We might be the smartest but we still haven’t pulled off the really impressive stuff like these sharks. A female shark in a zoo has been observed giving birth to a pub with no assistance from a…

With all of the recent news of Financial Crisis on Wall Street, you would assume that our workload for new web application prototypes and website projects has suffered – but the reality is that it’s been quite the opposite. We’re as busy as ever with new clients kicking off projects…

This morning I heard the Pope announce that the current global financial crisis is a reminder that the pursuit of money is meaningless. The Pope said, ”He who builds only on visible and tangible things like success, career and money builds the house of his life on sand”. Although I…

Dan Ariely’s ideas of Predictably Irrational claims that procrastination is a universally human issue. According to Ariely’s studies, people do better when they complete the work closer to the start of the project than if they leave it to the last minute. Based on this idea he suggests that there…

When you are interviewing it’s typical to ask standard questions like "what value do you think you would bring to this business?" The problem with questions like that is they can be answered by the candidate without giving away any real insight into their value or personality. Here is a…

Tonight I was watching Iconoclasts on the Sundance Channel. This episode featured Jon Favreau and Tony Hawk. Jon Favreau has had two great directorial successes, Elf and Ironman. The thing that stuck in my head was when he said he has figured out how to be satisfied with what he…

Being a web designer, sometimes it’s easy to get frustrated with a piling workload, constant changes or demanding turnaround times. It’s when I feel this way that I think of the several ways we’ve recently helped to truly make improvements in the online facets of our clients’ businesses – especially…