Pleasure and Pain

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Entries Tagged as 'E-mails'

Awesome Email of the Day: Evangelizing Myself

June 2nd, 2009 · Comments · E-mails, Pleasure

Being able to help people change their lives for the better is worth more than any client check. I’m very fortunate to get amazingly kind emails from strangers around the world. I promptly add them to my Happy File to look back on when I’m feeling down and doubting myself. Here is a recent email [...]


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Who coined the term “wireframes”?

November 2nd, 2008 · Comments · Design, E-mails, Web Development

Wireframes, wireframes, wireframes. It’s one of the those “insider” terms that gets thrown around the user experience design community all the time. We go to great lengths to explain what they are — to our colleagues, our clients, and our friends (“What exactly do you do again?”). [Dan Brown's explanation on Boxes and Arrows; Sarah [...]


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Reader E-mail: “Follow your dreams while you can”

November 1st, 2008 · Comments · Career, E-mails

I just wanted to post an amazing e-mail that I received from Martha Mihaly in response to my post on going solo. It really made me sit up straight and take stock of what I’m doing here — getting involved in the community, making my own rules and exploring my passion.
This e-mail, from one woman [...]


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