Khoi Vinh just posted an article on his blog about the Evernote iOS app that we released today and asked an interesting question. He wondered why Evernote has no competitors and why it “has no competition”. I don’t pretend to have the answer to this question at all, but I’d like to offer one possibleContinue Reading
The last week or so at Evernote have been absolutely insane as we’ve been making big announcements almost every single day. While the excitement has been high, the stress has been as well. A lot of these things have been in the works for months now and I’d love to think that things may beContinue Reading
Fontshop has one of the biggest font collections in the world, and now you can access over 150,000 of them right inside Photoshop with their new plugin. This is an incredible tool for those of us who want to get a quick look at what something will look like in a new font. It’s particularlyContinue Reading
One of the things I love about what I do is getting to be around really talented people that are doing awesome things. Increasingly, I see my role as a facilitator and someone that brings designers together – both with each other and with other projects. This connection factor is one of my favorite aspectsContinue Reading
If you haven’t heard about it yet, there is a new viral video in town. Kony2012 has 80 MILLION views on youtube as of this writing. It was posted just over a week ago. And that’s just on youtube. Visible Measures says that it got to 70 million views faster than any other viral videoContinue Reading
Chris Shiflett, a respected “web craftsman”, has put out a challenge to do more blogging and to show our appreciation of the medium. I’d like to take a quick minute to accept his challenge and to post just a little bit about why I blog and what I like about reading other blogs. If youContinue Reading
With the insurgence of web typography over the last few years, a lot of us have been asking when we could expect a font service from Hoefler & Frere-Jones. It looks like the wait may be coming to a close. This week at least two sites have been spotted using a private beta version ofContinue Reading
Wacom has introduced its newest tablet, the Intuos5. I have been using the Intuos4 for a little while now and have consistently felt that multi-touch gestures were severely missing. I’m really excited to try this out and see if they work well. If so, I could see myself spending a lot more time with aContinue Reading
We’re all familiar with typeface specimens and we know they can be a work of art unto themselves. But I personally haven’t ever seen one quite like this. I think it’s a great experiment. I would love to see more type foundries producing little videos that give us more background information about their typefaces. It’sContinue Reading
It’s been bothering me lately that all of our computer screens are in widescreen landscape mode, and yet all the webpages we make are fundamentally long portrait pages. Almost all websites these days are flanked on either side by a sea of whitespace. While I’d love to jump to conclusions, I don’t think it’s laziness.Continue Reading