Continuations

The last two Tech Tuesdays were about common blindspots for all engineering founding teams (marketing, sales) and ditto for all business founding teams (technology). In the comments Brandon asked “how many designer led companies have these problems”? The short answer is “it depends”! What does it depend on? What you mean by “designer.” If by designer you mean someone who is in love with a pretty surface (UI) then I have actually seen both failure modes – failure to deliver the actual product ...

Today’s post is over at USV where we are looking for design talent to help us update our identity. Funnily there is a question about our logo on Quora. We are excited to be leveraging Behance’s design community for this update. Participate or let other designers know that they should. We will select and commission five designers. Here is the competition on Behance.

I have been trying out Bing last week, as has Fred, and the team at Clickable (and probably a lot of other folks). Generally, the verdict seems to be that it’s not terrible but has some obvious shortcomings, especially when it comes to integrating blog and very recent content. Despite these shortcomings, I do believe that Bing represents a real challenge for Google because of its design. This is not just a question of Bing adding some “bling” (could not resist) in the form of a picture on the...

It may be a bit of a stretch to call a redesign and new brand identity a feature but bare with me for a minute. Earlier this week Shapeways launched a redesign of the site including a complete overhaul of the brand identity. This was designed to clear up several years of detritus that had accumulated and offer a more welcoming experience. I love it and it has been well received by existing community members. Why do I call it a feature? Much the same way in which speed is a feature. You can ha...

I have had the same minimal design on this blog for quite some time. But as I am committed to keeping Continuations goind and writing more, I think the time has come for a complete overhaul of the design. I am looking for input from readers as to what changes (if any) you would like to see. All suggestions for style, features, layout are welcome! Also, I have a budget for this, so if anyone is interested in working on it please let me know in the comments and via email together with a couple ...