Motivation

People sometimes ask me where I find the motivation to do certain things, like waking up at 5:15am for strength training classes, working overtime to start this business, doing yoga daily, writing a book. But they’re asking the wrong question.
It’s not where is my motivation, but what is my motivation. Motivation isn’t a place, it [...]

Bad Usability Calendar

Go get it. I feel like one of these needs to have a ton of huge logos and starbursts on it. Lots of great tips, and for all its bad usability, it’s quite nice…

Why Design?

I have a potential new client asking me a pretty simple question: Why? Why should I pay a good amount of money to redesign my circa 1998 website, which already contains all of our vital information, which is all anybody is really looking for… right?
I should be ready for this question and yet I find [...]

Day-to-Day

I’ve been a bit off the radar in November, as I spent the month madly completing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). It was my first attempt at the challenge (50,000 words in 30 days), and I won, meaning I completed it, uploaded my manuscript, and got my PDF certificate.
NaNoWriMo is the perfect example of what [...]

Business Planning

Back when I set up my business about nine months ago, I had to write a business plan to get into a special program for recently laid-off people who wanted to start a business. I had an adviser who help me trudge my way through the process, although to be honest, I ended up writing [...]

Soft Launch!

Well, I’m finally launching the Kwik Interactive site, as a mashup of my blog and portfolio sites. There is still some work to be done (hence “soft launch”), but I wanted to get this out there before it meets the fate of my other attempts at portfolio sites (the graveyard over-complicated, over-designed flashy portfolios).
PS: Yes, [...]