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Crease posted 28th August 2003

Under the Iron is a series of interviews with ‘web designers, yahoos and people’. Uniquely, you the readers can continue asking questions for a few weeks after the interview has been published. Interviewees thus far include Daniel ‘Waferbaby’ Bogan, Anil Dash, Mark Pilgrim and 37signals’ Jason Fried.

There’s a few gems in there, for instance Jason Fried reveals that he’d like to make a movie about factories. And it’s all published under a Creative Commons license, which is nice.

2006 – Where did it go?: I’ve just being perusing the 2006 Review edition of Grafik magazine and came across some mini-interviews with graphic design luminaries. I thought they wrapped up the year nicely, so I’ve copied their questions here and provided my own answers.
Career path for web designers: In my post on creating a professional body for web designers I suggested that a function should be to help with the ‘continued professional development’. Christina Wodtke has been considering options for extending one’s career as a web designer.
Ten questions for Andy: Brighton blogger and Web designer Andy Budd answers ten questions on topics including standards fascism and the success of Skillswap. Andy also echoing my own feelings on blogging.
Chocks away: On Messrs Hicks and Oxton’s new podcast, The Talk Show and Stephen Fry.
Users define usable: “Ultimately, of course, the users’ performance defines what’s usable. If users can easily accomplish what they want to do, then the design is usable.” Pixelsurgeon Interviews Jakob Nielsen. I have embarked on a project called ukbloggers with Ed from…