Jarod Spool writes a great article about how all of the hard work that is done on the experience of a website, including the design and architecture, often go unnoticed by the consumers.

Here’s an interview with Luke W. where he talks about why designers should have a seat at the boardroom table, businesses realizing the importance of design in their business strategy and what designers should do once they’re there at the table.

It usually only takes two times through before I give up.

Never before have there been more people with a camera in their hands at all times without looking like a tourist, with the ability to share with the world in an instant.

I take photos to recall my past and to remember the beauty of the mundane.

I was single, didn’t have any kids, worked a really mundane job and lived on cigarettes, pepsi, and coffee. I barely remember much of it.

I’ve become a bit of a phone geek. We’ll, that’s really an understatement. I’m a huge phone geek – I know more about my G1 than I do my laptop. Thanks to AndroidAndMe’s desktop screenshot contest, I thought I’d share mine.

The new Titanium beta is going to give Adobe Air a run for their money, allowing iPhone and Android app development to be done using HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

I just happened across a new ‘showcase’ website of sites using HTML5, go check it out.

They just sent me a little wireless adapter to plug into my car computer and it uploads information about the way I drive directly to them. We’ll see how quickly I get canceled.

Google Voice is an amazing great service, but the speech-to-text feature is almost completely useless so far. Hopefully that will change.

Tired of redesigning your site? Why not style your posts individually? If you’re up for it, there are a number of things to consider and a number of things to avoid.

I think 2009 is going to be the year of HTML 5. I took the plunge and others are doing the same. If we, as developers and designers, don’t start using it and working with it on a regular basis, we’ll never be able to give the needed feedback before the final draft is released. Here’s a little advice on getting started and my thoughts on the state of its development…

Don’t do what I did – I winged my site overhaul by creating a couple pages, forgetting to account for all the ranges of templates I have. When I flipped the switch with the new code I scrambled for an hour or two trying to correct my oversight…

The economy crashed, George Bush had shoes thrown at him, and we elected a new president. My wife and I bought a house, My daughter celebrated her 1st birthday, and my son was born healthy and hungry.

To celebrate all the work I’ve done on this site in the last year, here are 8 of my favorite posts of ’08.

If you been following my feed for the last few days you would have noticed that I’ve been pushing a lot of new art. I plan to actually do this every day until Christmas, so hopefully you’ll enjoy looking at them…