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Doing good design in a non-design company

April 23rd, 2012

There are design companies out there. The Apples, Twitters, Mints, Instagrams (before Facebook bought them?), Nintendos, and so on.

My perspective on Invisibile Children and Kony2012

March 10th, 2012

I feel like it's a good thing for me to offer a bit of a response to all the recent conversation around Invisible Children and their Kony2012 online efforts (if you are not familiar with any of it, start at this post from Rachel Held Evans collecting resources on both "sides").

The year (and a little extra) that I spent with Android

December 22nd, 2011

In July of 2010, I decided to buy a smartphone. I didn't want to leave Verizon, and Apple hadn't yet announced the arrival of the iPhone, so I did a great deal of research to try to find the Android phone that had the best design available on the platform and on Verizon (by that, I wanted user experience design, industrial design, etc.).

A List Apart Survey, 2011

November 17th, 2011

Once again, the lovely folks at A List Apart have started their unique-in-our-industry survey, as they have each year since 2007.

Design as communication between technical and non-technical people

November 14th, 2011

One of the interesting things about web design is the number of fields into which it reaches.

A community that had love

October 23rd, 2011

It's been a week now since our dear Neighbors Abbey "officially" ended. Kiera and I were part of this faith community for the last couple of years, and recently the circumstances of many folks involved with it made it such that it couldn't continue in the capacity that it had, and so it ended as an official church. Now, we've been through the endings of churches that we loved before.

The tension of Apple and justice

October 11th, 2011

Like most designers on the web, I mourned at the news of the death of Steve Jobs.

Creating ways to digest online content

September 13th, 2011

One of the defining things about the experience of reading online is that it is completely impossible to read everything, or even everything that would be interesting to any specific person.

The 9/11 Narrative

September 11th, 2011

I didn't plan on writing about 9/11 this year. I wrote about it last year (and in 2001, linking to the article I tracked down last year, though my thoughts from back then are lost in a Comic Sans archive of messiness), and I assumed I wouldn't have more to say this year. But while I still believe that the September 2001 article I reposted from the vocalist of Ballydowse is the best response to the event, I think there are words to be said about our national response since then, and it is those I decided to give attention to.

Design of baby changing surfaces

August 27th, 2011

As I expected, I've been learning a lot about baby products the past several months, and how they are designed.

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Jonathan Stegall is a web designer and emergent / emerging follower of Jesus currently living in Atlanta, seeking to abide in the creative tension between theology, spirituality, design, and justice.

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