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While asking for input on the New Internationalist redesign process the other day, one of my friends replied (in jest) “Is ‘crowdsourcing’ the new ‘design by committee’?” It got me thinking about why I’m excited by open and transparent design processes, and how concepts like crowdsourcing are exactly the opposite of design by committee…

Thanks to all of the excellent and constructive feedback so far, I am today working towards the New Internationalist pages that I am designing being feature complete and ready for sign-off next week…

Today I want to share and invite your feedback on my work on the New Internationalist blog pages.…

Today I want to share and invite your feedback on my work on the New Internationalist magazine pages.…

Most often when I’m designing a new site, I focus first on its content pages…

As part of the New Internationalist redesign project, I’m focussing on how the organization presents itself online…

When I was asked by New Internationalist to design for their onlinemagazine, blogs and shops, the challenge seemed pretty daunting…

A couple of years ago I started looking at options to deliver common “front end” functionality for sites using Bricolage, the content-management system that is used at New Internationalist Initially, what I had in mind to provide this front-end functionality was a “swarm” of micro-applications, where each little application provided one simple, specific, function, e.g., user registration, comments on content, voting and rating, sharing content, etc…

Over the past several years, I’ve worked with many organizations and campaigns that have seen their e-mail subscriber lists grow dramatically…

After a good banter back-and-forth with my colleague here on the New Internationalist Web Team about CSS frameworks, I thought it would be helpful to jot down the key themes of the debate and possible solutions…