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Alex Jones

I lead teams at the intersection of strategy and design. Autodidact. Polymath. Barbecue acolyte. I start fires (the good kind).

I design Design teams. I lead teams at the intersection of strategy & design. I start fires (the good kind). 🔥

Transfer Mail.app’s Junk Filter to Another Mac or Account

Close Mail.app on both machines, and then find the file ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/LSMMap2 on the old machine and copy it into the same location on the new…

The UX Career Path

Note: This post is evolving. I am taking a different approach on this one - I am publishing my first pass with the expectation that…

Citizenship in a Republic

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could…

Shī Shì shí shī shǐ

A story in which each syllable is pronounced/shi/ 施氏食狮史 石室诗士施氏，嗜狮，誓食十狮。 氏时时适市视狮。 十时，适十狮适市。 是时，适施氏适市。 氏视是十狮，恃矢势，使是十狮逝世。 氏拾是十狮尸，适石室。 石室湿，氏使侍拭石室。 石室拭，氏始试食是十狮。 食时，始识是十狮，实十石狮尸。 试释是事。 Shī Shì shí shī shǐ Shíshì…

The Chinese Oreo

Any foreign company that comes to China and says, 'There's 1 1/2 billion people here, goody goody, and I only need 1 percent of that'…

Innovation, the US and China

If you haven't read the excellent How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work in the New York Times, you should do so now. The story…

2012: The Year Ahead

I'm not looking back. 2011 was a good year, but it was merely a foundation for 2012 and the years to come. I start this…

Quick Tip: Printing or Creating a PDF of Google Translate Output

Note: This is a bit technical, but it does work if you're comfortable modifying a bit of HTML via your browser's development tools. I've recently…

On Product Management

“You don’t know all the answers, but have to work with people who do.”Marissa Mayer VP of many awesome things at Google. The quote is…

SMACSS – Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS

Many of you may already be aware of it, but in case not, I thought I'd point out that Jonathan Snook has released a site/ebook…

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