Jesse Youngblood

Hi there! It's been a while. Today I'm re-launching my personal blog 🎉 On reflection I believe I've had at least 6 different blogs on different domains over the years- always evolving with my current priorities. In the 2000s ease of maintainability drove me to hosted solutions, then the need for customization drove me to design and author a series of my own blog codebases. In the 2010s platforms lured me in with the promise of greater reach. For quite a while it seemed inconceivabl...

I just read a Microsoft design case study about translating an iPad application's interface paradigms to the new Metro style of Windows 8. If you're interested in the major user experience shifts coming to Windows in the very near future, I suggest you do too. This article paints a very clear picture of what we are to expect from Microsoft interfaces going forward- and it isn't entirely positive. The root issue with Metro is that it relies too heavily on pre-existing knowledge of...