I‘m Dylan Smith.
I‘m a product designer.
I wrote this for you.
- Weeknotes 2019-W19 On ice hockey, admitting you’re related to The Edge from U2, and saying yes. 2019-05-12
- In defence of the company group chat 2019-05-01
- Table stakes I asked designers at London tech companies: Does your company offer flexible working hours? 2019-04-30
- Telling a company they suck won’t get you hired The ideal client values your discipline, knows what it costs, and is ready to buy. 2019-04-16
- How to audit your LinkedIn connections 2019-04-13
- To free or not to free I’ve been thinking about the apps I use and which ones I pay for. How do I decide who to support? 2019-04-10
- Droning on 2019-04-01
- Weeknotes 2019-W12 On Sensitive Subjects, conference proposals, and the guilt of taking sick days. 2019-03-25
- Sensitive Subjects A few things I learned about programming while building a small web project. 2019-03-21
- Weeknotes 2019-W11 “You shouldn’t just enquire. You should write, too.” 2019-03-17
- The Revolutin’ will not be ostracised Everyone wants to talk about ethics in tech but not as much as they want free stickers. 2019-03-05
- The ‘delete account’ button is the message 2019-02-20
- How to host better meetings My seven golden rules to stop wasting everyone’s time. 2019-02-18
- A look back at my 2018 resolutions How I did and how I feel about it. 2018-12-28
- What should your hourly rate be as a freelancer? Take a simple formula, tweak it to work for you, and consider an alternative to selling time. 2018-11-21
- How to write Rails comments that don’t appear in rendered HTML 2018-10-29
- Southpaw grammar 2018-10-24
- Don’t draw shitty Spider-Men Deadlines are the enemy of quality, but sometimes they’re unavoidable. So what do we do? 2018-10-16
- A Million Email Geeks on a Million Keyboards Video of my talk about the value of online communities for people working in niche industries and roles. 2018-09-27
- A certain perfect ratio 2018-09-26
- All talk 2018-09-26
- First impressions of Google Contributor 2018-09-17
- Right-click, copy link address 2018-08-27
- Grid enough 2018-08-26
- RSS boys we out here 2018-08-24
- Solving for f() Every once in a while a designer writes an article that totally changes the way I think about something. 2018-08-23
- Maintaining your sanity while using Slack A mostly complete guide to actually getting some work done 2018-08-04
- Broken leg Three things you should do when preparing to speak at a tech event 2018-06-18
- Banner year Recounting the highlights of a successful 2017 2017-12-31
- A better placeholder image generator I built the user interface Placehold.it should have had all along. 2017-11-01
- Reasons to pay it forward It was obvious from 10:00 on Monday that Reasons To wasn’t going to be like the conferences I normally attend. 2017-09-07
- Show your hand It’s rare to see a designer cop to their influences, especially when those influences are their contemporaries. 2016-10-12
- How to avoid getting ripped off by a client Eight steps you need to take on every single project to protect yourself as a freelancer 2016-07-07
- Briefly on Briefly Thoughts on setting the stage for a successful project 2016-06-09