“Improve the payment experience with animations” by Michaël Villar This article is a few months old but it’s great at illustrating the importance of subtle animation in web and app design. It outlines some of the animations Stripe Checkout uses to improve user understanding and experience. With the right animations, you can make things clearer, … Continue reading Improving user experience with animation
If you’ve ever wanted to see bad skateboarding and even worse video editing in a low quality video, your wish has come true. This video is almost 8 years old. It was my attempt at creating a skate video with two of my friends (one of which wasn’t much of a skater). Most of the … Continue reading Old Skateboarding Footage
“I stopped caring about my career when I had kids,” he says. “Everything that I do, every decision that I make, is how I can get home to my four-year-old and six-year-old faster.” I love this quote from Scott Hanselman, a program manager at Microsoft, author and avid blogger and speaker. It’s from a talk … Continue reading
I suffer from an ailment of never being content doing only the work required day to day. Lately I’ve been getting the itch to start building something from scratch again. The last thing I put a lot of time into building was BrewTrackr, and that was almost three years ago. So the next step, and … Continue reading An itch
We have a few special years with our children when they’re the ones that want us around. After that you’re going to be running after them for a bit of attention … It’s a few years, and it’s over. I decided to watch the movie Hook last night after realizing it’s been a while since … Continue reading It’s a few years, and it’s over
This past week was the annual Automattic Grand Meetup in Park City, Utah. The mountain views were incredible, and every single one of the people I met were just as amazing. I got to spend the week working on a project with colleagues I don’t normally work with which was really fun. There were also plenty … Continue reading Park City, Utah
This week, the entire company is getting together for the annual Grand Meetup in Park City, Utah. The views here are gorgeous. Continue reading Canyons Resort, Park City, Utah
I’m laying in bed, unable to sleep due to both excitement and nerves, thinking about the events of tomorrow. Tomorrow afternoon I’ll get on a plane and fly to Park City, Utah, to meet about 250 colleagues I’ve been working with for nearly a year but haven’t met. Every year the entire company gets together … Continue reading Meeting hundreds of people at once
I started a story in the new Selfies app (made by colleagues of mine at Automattic) showing of the shirt I was wearing. After 5 days it was still being updated and added to by other people which is pretty fun. Users have a solid collection of shirts. Continue reading Today’s shirt
Dan Hauk 