Your website probably doesn’t really matter
What matters is your ability to tell a good story, build connections, and engage on a human level.
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Getting Started
A collection of 6 issues
#UnderdogChallenge—my 23-year journey from soloist to agency principal and back in under 500 words
After nearly 23 years, I’m back on the tools, working directly with amazing clients—designing and building beautiful, elegant, highly functional Shopify stores—learning and growing and achieving things I’d forgotten I was capable of.
Beware of the hidden costs of complexity
The more unknown unknowns there are in a design brief or system requirements, the more time is required to understand the core problems in order to design a suitable solution. Keeping things lean enables you to stay nimble, iterate faster, and grow more sustainably.
Developing a strategic plan for a new year—the hardest part is getting started
Some say, “the hardest part of running is putting on your shoes.” It’s not actually hard but, if you don’t do it, you won’t go for a run at all.
The Foodbank Project in its first six weeks
1. 817 items donated
2. $2,301 in total donations
3. $7,698 needed to reach the pilot goal of $10,000 in donations
4. Diced Tomatoes is the most-donated item
foodbank.org.nz [https://foodbank.org.nz]
Pilot launch of The Foodbank Project
The Foodbank Project is a not-for-profit project created by Lucid with the support of The Salvation Army and Countdown. It is essentially an online grocery store where everything you buy is given directly to New Zealanders in need.