by Mike West ∙ 42 Comments
We've all lost work to file overwrites and other minor disasters. There are remedies — and as Mike West explains, you don't have to have awe-inspiring technical skills to take advantage of them.
by Walter Stevenson ∙ 39 Comments
As designers, we all face the inevitable slump. That point where our creativity stagnates and we find ourselves at a dead end. Walter Stevenson offers suggestions on staying productive and creative.
In any given day I can find myself reading up on a new W3C proposal, fixing an issue with our tax return, coding an add-on for our product, writing a conference presentation, building a server, creating a video tutorial, and doing front end development for one of our sites. Without clients dictating my workload I’m in the enviable position of being able to choose where to focus my efforts. However, I can’t physically do everything.
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