Musings from a device free designer on appropriate tools

I think one of the issues as illustrated in articles like ModemLoopers is an easiness to jump to the worst examples and broad stroke a solution. My own thoughts are a more flexible ‘per situation’ solution is the best one. Just like you don’t repeat the same design over and over again – responsive, adaptive… mobile apps all have their place it’s picking from the toolbox and using the right one for the case.

Enter the year of refinement

The new year has turned and with it the seemingly endless design trend speculation posts. I’m always rather sceptical of how unless you are Mystic Meg you can actually predict the future design trends. Surely the entire point is they are both future and trends – trends implying they are used by more and more people. [...]