We've been planning and designing and crafting our product and message for the past few months, and we're finally announcing Skills, our latest venture.

Hiring is hard, and we think the resume has a large portion of the blame, because it encourages "Hiring Debt", which is a lot like technical debt in that you sacrifice quality for convenience early in the hiring process but must pay it back with interest later.

We're trying to build a solution for this problem with Skills. Your feedback and wisdom is much appreciated!

If you like LittleIpsum, then check out Loremify. It's a dashboard widget, but the interface is very well-thought out and lets me grab the amount of text I need very quickly.

Secondary benefit: one less icon in my already-overrun menubar.

Trying out a new logotype approach.

Need feedback! Particularly with regards to legibility and strength of form. Good logotypes need to be able to stand alone.

If it's not clear (and please say so), the text is "skills"

An in-progress draft of some identity work I'm doing.

Working on launching Hidden Hires, including a design refresh.

A single spread from the Djangocon Program. Feedback welcome!

I'd like to share a technique that I don't see used much. I'm wondering if there's a hidden downside I'm not seeing.

Almost all browsers (except Safari v2.0 and earlier) will focus the relevant form input if you click on an associated label. This association is denoted via the label's for attribute.

Lately I've been using (abusing?) the element to contain form errors. The primary benefit is that it will focus the relevant input if the error is clicked. I haven't found any impediments to styling using CSS, and I imagine that this would be better from an accessibility standpoint—including error text in the means that screenreaders will read the errors right after the field label.

Thoughts?

Same layout, but with a blue color.

Working on t-shirt designs for the upcoming Djangocon, wrestling with t-shirt color choices. Unfortunately, I can't just ask for a shirt with whatever hex color I want. :(

Thoughts on the color?

Some branding work I'm doing for Djangocon US. I want to apply the same palette / overall look to the conference site, would love some critique & feedback!