David's Blog Posts

The future of computing is in “the cloud,” but could we soon find the cloud is actually at the bottom of the sea? Microsoft is experimenting with undersea data centers to overcome common terrestrial computing problems. But does the idea hold water?d
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but so are insults. Does it matter if no offense was intended; if a reader is offended by your writing? This very question came up in a recent Reader’s Corner review session. So, what did we do about it?
When I started working on websites over twenty years ago, the World Wide Web was going to change the world in a positive way. We had the best of intentions: to create an environmentally friendly way to communicate. But over the last twenty years, society’s unquenchable thirst for rich media has instead taken a toll on the environment.
One of DesignHammer's core values is to encourage our team members to embrace different wellness activities. Recently several members of our team joined "The Conquerer" fitness challenge and added daily walking to our regular fitness routines. Follow along with our journey here.
As someone who has been working on digital accessibility for over twenty years, it was great to see a blog post from AIGA, The Professional Association for Design, on not only the importance of designing for accessibility, but doing so from the start of a project, as well as in collaboration with disabled users.
In the light of increased racial sensitivity, leading software companies such as Red Hat are reconsidering the inclusion of controversial jargon, such as “master/slave” and “whitelist/blacklist” in software systems, while others have already done so for years.