I'm a notoriously difficult person to buy gifts for. With this holiday season coming up, I thought I'd take a stab at curating a list of gift ideas…
Read more →I was privileged enough to be a guest on Clockwise this week. We talked about the California DMV selling your personal data, the video-recording-and…
Read more →I'm so happy to finally be able to share with the world Shopify Email . It's an email marketing tool built from the ground up for commerce. Even if…
Read more →Yeah, that really happened. On Monday last week, just after coming in to work we started noticing that the Beaver Hall street right in front of the…
Read more →Last week I had the chance to do something I’ve never done before: take part in a design competition where I (along with 2 other talented designers…
Read more →Sep Kamvar offers a very intelligent argument against user-centered design in this article : The danger in user-centered design is that it releases…
Read more →I've been interviewing a lot these days at Shopify, so I've started to pick up on certain patterns I see when talking to people in interviews. One…
Read more →Khoi Vinh, writing about Lingo by Noun Project : Designers can drag and drop their assets into Lingo’s thumbnail browser interface; the assets are…
Read more →I’ve only started getting into House Of Cards. I know what you're thinking. I simply never got into the show after its first episode. For a long time…
Read more →Adam Morse on accessibility: When I sit down to design things I try to put on the veil of ignorance. I imagine a world where I am not who I am right…
Read more →Last week I asked people on Twitter if they considered themselves a generalist or a specialist. The results show that about 72% of people consider…
Read more →Since getting my iPad Mini 4, I've been completely in love with it. I use it for reading, browsing Twitter, watching movies and TV shows, writing…
Read more →I'm not a gamer. I have 2 games on my iPhone: Monument Valley and Alto's Adventure . But I'm a huge fan of Panic and Olly Moss . When I heard…
Read more →Hoefler & Co. Just released an interesting typeface called Operator . The most interesting part about it are the italic letterforms. I feel like it…
Read more →A few days ago I asked people on Twitter what was the best non-fiction book that they read recently. Fortunately, I got a lot of good…
Read more →2015 has been a fantastic year for me. I traveled a bunch, met tons of new people, shipped amazing projects that I'm super proud of, helped build an…
Read more →Last Tuesday we (Shopify) hosted the 6th MTL Dribbble Meetup , but it was the first in our brand new office space . Our lounge area was designed…
Read more →I'm currently reading Creativity Inc. and this passage about different ways to deal with failures resonated with me: Left to their own devices, most…
Read more →Adil Majid wrote an excellent post about a question I've often asked myself: "What did wildly successful people do differently from the rest of us…
Read more →Medium recently updated its policy to prohibit public shaming amongst other things (emphasis mine): We want everyone to feel at home on Medium. This…
Read more →Recently got this book by Timothy Goodman that I got to know with his 40 Days of Dating project. If you're like me and you're a huge fan of…
Read more →A few people asked me if I was doing my "Antifragile Design" talk somewhere in Montreal. The answer is yes! I've been asked by the good people at…
Read more →If you've been following my Twitter feed for the last couple of weeks, you've probably noticed that I've been working on a talk. The event where I'm…
Read more →As I'm typing this, I currently have 243 unread items sitting in my RSS app. It was too much. It's hard to pinpoint a specific time when it went from…
Read more →Yesterday I decided to clean up all the files that were piling up on my desktop, I changed my wallpaper and tried hiding my dock to see how I would…
Read more →I recently rewrote the Montreal Dribbble Meetup website using Sinatra. The previous version was simply static HTML and CSS files, so hosting and…
Read more →I tweeted about it already , but a single tweet isn't enough to express how much I enjoyed this game . I'm not a gamer . I have very few games on my…
Read more →I have mixed feelings about the announcement that the Teehan+Lax partners are joining Facebook and shutting down the agency . I'm happy for them and…
Read more →Mark Gurman is on a roll with Apple leaks lately. He recently published a piece on the purported Apple Watch companion app . I have a few initial…
Read more →I'm tired of interviews in magazines, podcast, books, websites. The pattern is always the same: get someone somewhat famous, ask them a few questions…
Read more →Jonathan Mann , famous for his song-a-day project recently made this video telling the story of Jack Dolsen, a guy who decided to parody Jonathan's…
Read more →I love how Jonnie, aka @destroytoday , has been writing a ton about his process as he's building Cushion. This post on refactoring especially…
Read more →Ev Williams, CEO of Medium (and co-founder of Twitter) recently wrote a post explaining his reaction to Instagram being “bigger” than Twitter . He…
Read more →As we approach the end of 2014, I thought it'd be a good idea to list out the movies I have watched this year that I've enjoyed the most. This is by…
Read more →Dustin Senos, product designer at Medium recently investigated the biggest causes of design friction within different design teams . The number one…
Read more →Here's another great example of a designer learning the basics of Rails for fun : I always had ideas I wanted to bring to life, but I didn’t have the…
Read more →Microsoft recently announced Gestures for Lumia phones , which are basically shortcut gestures for things you commonly do when talking on the phone. I…
Read more →I love these quick, funny informational videos on how to do the "more complex" things on Facebook. I'd love to see this side of the company more…
Read more →Messaging as a primary way of interaction is strange trend for us in North America, because it didn't become a thing here until very recently. What's…
Read more →You've read that right, Apple recently updated the Apple Watch design resources to include Sketch files (alongside the Photoshop version). It's…
Read more →Ustwo , makers of the beautiful Monument Valley recently partnered with Google to design a few watch faces for Android Wear . They did an…
Read more →Now that I'm trying to post more to my site, I'm re-evaluating my setup. I'm currently using Jekyll which has been mostly great, but has a few…
Read more →We were shooting an internal video this week and I got asked to talk about one of our core values: simplicity. Everyone seems to think simplicity…
Read more →I normally just roll my eyes at any article about "the fold," but this one caught my attention . The UX researchers at Huge Inc. conducted user…
Read more →Kevin Burke on his blog : If you tell an attacker the email address is wrong, they'll try a different one. If you tell them the password is wrong…
Read more →Rosetta recently released a sans version of the beautiful Skolar . It follows the proportions of its predecessor but with a more modern twist that…
Read more →People have already started making awesome fan art for the new Star Wars . It makes you think just how much Star Wars is a huge part of our culture…
Read more →Jack Conte, CEO of Patreon and musician in the band Pomplamoose shared the profits of their 2014 tour on Medium . In short, unless you're a super…
Read more →Harry Roberts wrote a great post on CSS Wizardry about the distinction between @extend and @mixin : Only use @extend when the rulesets that you…
Read more →Countless rumors have been pointing to the fact that Apple might introduce a way to run apps side by side on the iPad later today. For example, you…
Read more →A common pattern these days, is to put bullets as a field's placeholder to indicate a credit card number, a discount or a password field. The problem…
Read more →Cap Watkins replies to designers who ask "Why should I learn to code if engineers don’t have to learn to design?": Throughout my entire career I’ve…
Read more →We've recently teamed up with Dribbble for an official playoff centered around the theme of "What Does Design Mean to You?" To choose the main…
Read more →I'm going to try to write a real app this time. I have this idea for an app that I think would be pretty useful to me. I don't want to reveal too much…
Read more →Marco Arment just shipped 1.0 of his new podcast app -- Overcast . As expected it's pretty good. Of course I have a few complaints: I wish the main…
Read more →It's no secret that I'm a complete sucker for Tungsten . It might very well may be one of my favorite typeface ever made. It's nice to see Hoefler…
Read more →Brent and Marco (two people I admire and respect) have posted two great pieces on why there are many advantages for using stock UI and how it might…
Read more →I work on the web day in, day out. I know the medium very well: its capabilities, its limitations, its opportunities and for a long time, mobile app…
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