Product Leadership, Strategy, Customer Insights. Previously: Director of Product at @Dribbble & @CreativeMarket, @Monotype, @FontExplorer, @GridsetApp
Colorado Springs, CO
Joined August 2008
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In case you missed it, you may find this article on the slow but inevitable demise of UX quite interesting.
andybudd.medium.com/the-slow…
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🚨Job Alert🚨
We’re looking for an experienced Product Manager to help us level up our processes at @Niiceapp. (full time, Norn Iron-based)
Know anyone? My DMs are open 😊 RTs appreciated.
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Now is a great time to upgrade your design workflow. Work smarter, not harder, with 30% off of FontExplorer X Pro!
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Use promo code: FEXV730F21
Offer ends soon!
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What foundries offer student demos of fonts? I want to make a list of affordable design student resources
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Without field research, it's difficult to get an accurate picture of user workflows.
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Thanks to the generosity of the type community, we have TWO spots for BIPOC in my Principles of Typeface Design: Display Type @coopertype.
🚨The deadline to submit applications is this Friday, June 5 11:59 PM EST Details on the image below and here:
instagram.com/p/CA8pUcAB0DI/
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Type Digest, May 2020 is out!
Everything what was important last month from our perspective:
type.today/en/journal/may20
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Just a reminder that I'm editing JavaScript related articles for @smashingmag.
Even if you've never written before, or think you don't have enough experience or not good enough... everyone has a perspective that is worth reading. DM me 🙂
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Today I learned that the ‘ex’ unit in CSS enables you to size things based on a font’s x-height. And it’s actually accurate 🤯
Demo: codepen.io/chrisarmstrong/pe…
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PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE (1985)
Cinematography by Victor J. Kemper
Directed by Tim Burton
Explore more shots in our database: bit.ly/3932GEN
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Answers are only valuable in the context of the right questions. The ability to frame the right questions is where the real value is
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FontExplorer X Pro 7 review: Helpful tools to find the font you need buff.ly/2Ljr2kj
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“Quant tells us what. Qual tells us why.”
This oversimplification regularly gets teams into trouble.
It suggests that quant and qual are simple, single dimensional measurements.
And it suggests they’re somehow to be considered separately.
Neither suggestion is correct.
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Morning all! To mark my foundry’s launch at @FontShop, there’s an introductory flash sale from now until Saturday. Save 50% on all my type families and individual fonts – only at FontShop.
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Web designers: how has your work impacted your health? Ever suffered eye strain, fatigue, depression, stress, RSI...? If not, how have you avoided them? Either way, would love to hear about your experiences for an article! Email journo.tommay@gmail.com; RTs super-appreciated
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All these datasets have the same statistical properties.
Including the dinosaur.
A reminder to be careful with means, variances and correlations - they can be deceptive.
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Been out shopping for fonts to use on my computer... #fontshop #fontshopping #isonorm #floppydisk #obsoleteformats @thedesignersrepublic #thedesignersrepublic #fishfingers
