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Quick Hit: Alt-text Unintended Consequences & Image-generating AI

Quick Hit: Alt-text Unintended Consequences & Image-generating AI

by David | Nov 1, 2023 | Design, Digital Migration, Sip With Caution

  If there were ever an example of why AI needs humans in the loop, well, actually … this isn’t the most compelling. But it’s informative. (H/t Washington Post’s most recent excellent scrollytelling example –...
The Dangers of Over-Design: supply-chain breakdown is what happens when we get TOO efficient

The Dangers of Over-Design: supply-chain breakdown is what happens when we get TOO efficient

by David | Mar 2, 2021 | Design, Digital Migration, UX/UI

By now, we’re all familiar with the visuals associated with the Great Supply Chain Disruption of 2021.   Container ships bobbing at anchor off Long Beach Harbor.   Bare shelves. Long lines.   How did we get here? How can we fix this?   I keep...
Creativity During the Pandemic: Pumpkin-Carving Beyond Jack O’Lanterns

Creativity During the Pandemic: Pumpkin-Carving Beyond Jack O’Lanterns

by David | Oct 20, 2020 | Design, Sip With Assurance

Carving Using Clay-Sculpture Tools To Produce Organic Art The “Night of 1,000 Jack-o-Lanterns” exhibit at the Chicago Botanical Gardens was a breath of fresh – albeit pumpkin-spice-scented – air. After months of feeling trapped, increasingly...
Migrating Sites & Dealing With Email: Not For the Faint of Heart

Migrating Sites & Dealing With Email: Not For the Faint of Heart

by David | Jun 4, 2019 | Design

Quick hit: here’s how to ensure all your past emails don’t vaporize when you migrate to a new hosting service Just got done with trying to help a friend with the fallout of migrating from one hosting provider to another, and I had a couple of insights:...

CSS 4: the Web Design Standard that Doesn’t Exist. Only It Does. Confused Yet?

by David | Jan 15, 2018 | Design, Digital Migration, UX/UI

Yesterday, upon the stair/ I saw a web design standard that was not there/ It was not there again today/ Gee, I wish it’d go away… Years ago, I helped the lovely & brilliant Janine Warner create books, classes and training videos about web design. This...

Shwedagon Pagoda and Dave by Night

by David | Aug 4, 2017 | Design

As with so many major cities in Asia, the ancient and the modern exist side-by-side.
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