Index

• This is not my beautiful house
• How trust happens
• Your most dangerous customer
• The monster
• Why you shouldn’t step on the scale
• You can’t do both
• Don’t get in your own way
• Declaring media bankruptcy
• Vancouver’s great creative exodus
• The healthy startup founder
• Faith
• How we fixed our studio’s cash-flow problem
• Places to post your startup
• What kind of Canada will ours be?
• A simple way to kickstart your career
• Go on a quest
• You keep using that word—“MVP”…
• What needs doing
• I can’t meet for coffee
• Why Your Website Doesn’t Convert
• My Facebook Privacy Notice
• The Zen of Busyness
• Invisible Design
• User Experience is Brand Experience
• We, the Despots
• Apple Doesn’t Design for Yesterday
• The House Party
• A Better Way to Fail Fast
• May You Design In Interesting Times
• Resurrecting IRC
• How Upworthy Killed Facebook
• Pace Yourself
• Choose Interesting Work
• What’s Right In Front of You
• How McDonald’s Tricks You With Color
• Just Keep Making
• The Perils of Naming Your Company
• Say This Instead
• Silence
• How to Find a Position
• Look for Waves
• Is Your Design Business Doomed?
• Don’t Ask Permission
• Your Title is a Cage
• Why You Ship
• The Rise of the Small Networks
• Stop Acting Like A Loser
• A Manifesto for a Happy Creative Life
• They’re Just Tools
• Play “Take Away”
• Say Yes
• How to be a Better Designer
• Design the Logo Last
• Keep Your Unsolicited Redesign to Yourself
• How to Write the Shit Out of Something
• The 30/30 Principle
• The Trap
• Moments that Never Happened
• How to Avoid Becoming an Obsolete Designer
• Achieving Mastery
• Finding Your Life Purpose
• These Aren’t the Skeuomorphs You’re Looking For
• Design is Not a Contest
• The Kindest Act
• Street Viewed
• Experiments, Missteps, and Starting Over
• How to Escape Your Shitty Job
• Shut Up and Listen
• Something Beautiful
• Bill For It
• Why You Fail
• On Bullies
• Beating the Wobblies
• My Issue with HN
• I Don’t Want You to Try
• It’s Groundhog Day