This is Tom Creighton's ongoing journal and information clearinghouse.

Note to designers (inc. myself): other people can have genuinely good ideas about design without being designers. You are not hot shit.

“That’s it, I’m moving to Sweden” is the new “That’s it, I’m moving to Canada”.

quasi-legal data-moshing application: http://www.download-finished.com/

How traditional Japanese knives are made: http://tinyurl.com/cjcg9g

Atarimae hinshitsu and miryokuteki hinshitsu together ensure that a creation will work to customers’ expectations and also be desirable.

@SeanLazer How do you declare an IE6 moritorium to clients, though? Serve different content?

“White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.” — Jan Tschichold

The trough of no value: http://tinyurl.com/d39h73

Our conceptions of ‘future’ usability change as our technology evolves: http://tinyurl.com/2pp7j6

I’m Twittering for purely business reasons!