I just wrote a pretty in-depth article on the Quizlet Blog: “How We Do Product Development at Quizlet: An Inside Look at the Making of Speller” which describes the process of how Andrew and I created “Speller”, the latest study mode on Quizlet.

…a behind the scenes look at how we created Speller, our engineering challenges and processes, and how we obsessed over the user experience and the educational experience.

Includes some technical details of how we programmed it (mostly JavaScript), the text-to-speech, development process and usability testing, and lots of screenshots of the different iterations we did in order to get the UI right.

It’s a little long, but hopefully worth the read!

I launched my first new website in a very long time, and also designed some matching print work. This time the client was tougher than usual. But she was also cuter than usual so it was worth it…

I present to you, philandkristin.com! I built it in Rails 3.1, though it’s mostly all static. It was my first time using Ruby on Rails which I have mostly enjoyed, and hosting on Heroku so far has been quite nice.

And our closest friends and family (man it’s hard to not invite everybody!) will be getting wedding invitations that look something like the left one from my drafts below: