Category: Happy Cog™

The little agency that could.

  • Housing Works launch

    Housing Works launch

    Sometimes we get to participate, in however small a way, in something much larger and more important than ourselves.

  • Photos from An Event Apart San Francisco

    Photos from An Event Apart San Francisco

    Take a dip in the Flickr photo pool from An Event Apart San Francisco 2008. Day Two is about to begin.

  • Books-a-Million

    Books-a-Million

    Pssst. New Happy Cog Studios design. Books-A-Million Online Bookstore. It looks even better when you start using it. Details soon at happycog.com.

  • The Survey for People Who Make Websites

    The Survey for People Who Make Websites

    Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of…

  • Office Koan No. 37

    Office Koan No. 37

    Speakeasy will only honor my request to discontinue DSL service in my old office if I call the company from my old phone number, which I no longer have access to because I moved out.

  • Life Needs a Rewind Button

    Life Needs a Rewind Button

    The new office is so new to me that I entered the address incorrectly while ordering CS3 suites for the studio. Amazon is consequently rush-delivering Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Acrobat Pro, and Fireworks to…

  • What happened here

    What happened here

    This gently declining space that has been nothing but an office since December and will soon be nothing at all to me, this place I will empty and vacate in the next few hours, has…

  • AEA Boston 2008 session notes

    AEA Boston 2008 session notes

    Linked session notes and downloads from An Event Apart Boston 2008.

  • So long, Boston. We’ll be back.

    So long, Boston. We’ll be back.

    An Event Apart Boston 2008 is over but the memories and photos linger on. Eric and I started An Event Apart because we saw the need for a live, concentrated, learning and sharing experience about…

  • Hope is the daughter of dawn

    Hope is the daughter of dawn

    Awake at 4:30 AM at the end of a four-day heat wave. Sweating, but not from the weather. Running a business during a recession gets you out of bed with the chickens. I have always…

  • ALA 258: art of community, science of design

    ALA 258: art of community, science of design

    What does it take to build an online community like Flickr’s? And how can we tell if interface design conventions we take for granted actually help or hurt users? In Issue No. 258 of A…

  • An Event Apart New Orleans: thank you and adieu

    An Event Apart New Orleans: thank you and adieu

    An Event Apart New Orleans is over, but the memories and photos linger on. Maybe it was the people. Maybe it was the extraordinary speakers. Or the staff, who made everything hum and shine. Or…

  • The feed is gone

    The feed is gone

    For a busy blogger, some content creation shortcuts work, and others don’t.

  • WordPress 2.5 unleashed

    WordPress 2.5 unleashed

    WordPress 2.5, designed by Happy Cog and built by Automattic, is now available for your downloading pleasure.

  • Zeldman on Talk Radio Today

    Zeldman on Talk Radio Today

    Live today from 3:00 to 4:00 pm Eastern Time, I’m this week’s guest on “Design Matters with Debbie Millman,” the leading internet talk radio show on the “challenging and compelling canvas of today’s design world.”