‘Email’ and ‘secure’ – two words that never go together in one serious sentence.

When I get an email from someone, I am supposed to believe it’s really from that person, but unlike websites, which use SSL certificates to authenticate, we simply have to take email header information about the identity of important companies at face value.

Solutions to identity and security in the field of email are sadly mostly limited to S/MIME, which nobody uses. Why has there been so little attention to the massive problems that we’re facing? Think of all the time we have spent educating users that nothing in email can be trusted – while instead, we could’ve put time into making technology work better.

Here’s a thought I had earlier:

I’m a great fan of the “green bar experience” in browsers that ascertain domain / identity trust when you are on a website with extremely sensitive data (e.g. banks, healthcare providers…). We’ve been struggling to convince everyone that they can’t trust a single email in their inbox. Let’s try and stop educating users to distrust everything on computers, and start changing technology.

I’ve been neglecting my old blog for a very, very long time. While I truly love (and had a great urge to) express myself, tear stuff down or share things in posts that are more than 140 characters, my ancient home-cooked clumsy WordPress theme was something I wanted to kill off. And truly killing it off starts here.

An entirely new website.

I’ll be posting regularly on here, and I’m very excited to get back to being able to dissect products again, share icons or wallpapers I made, teach the techniques I use, or just link to awesome stuff. It’ll be a fun ride. I’ll be doing it regularly. And it’ll be under my name.

You live and you learn. My old blog design is almost five years old at this time, and when I designed it I primarily designed it to be ‘pretty’. As I (and my wife) do a great amount of photography and I enjoy sharing high-resolution photos and artwork, an overbearing page design was simply not an option anymore. I’m looking forward to sharing the best of my design work, as well as my travels and experiences with you. This design is the best for me, and I designed it about seven months ago and implemented it with a lot of help from Karoun Kasraie.

I’ve had great interactions with Fusion in the past, who supported my last blog, but this new blog (as well as a sister website that will launch soon) will be sponsored by individual sponsors. If you’d like to be one of these sponsors, please get in touch for rates.

If you’re looking for old stuff, this may be what you’re looking for. Stay updated by following the new blog twitter.

Since I moved to a new blog, there may be some confusion left and right on where you can find my old stuff, including some of my most linked to and most downloaded works.

Here’s a list of my old blog’s top items:
 

• iOS icon PSD: I suggest you also read Neven’s post about it.

 

• Wallpapers and free icons: all still available. Let me know if any links break!

 

• UI Breakdowns: Snow Leopard, iPad, iOS 3, Safari, iWork, Notification UI in mobile OSes

 

• My post about Steve Jobs

 

• That time I designed logos for Pokemon

 

• The first time my design work was featured in an Apple ad

 

• Rants on gaming

 

• The Mozilla Ubiquity open design process

 

• the (legendary) Steam Redesign

 

• Case Studies, like the Interarchy icon design and Here, File File icon design or the design of the iPhone game Warships

 

• Making a Mac Media Server with a few easy steps

 

• The First Photoshop Icon, featuring guest appearances of the original creators of Photoshop.
   

• Graphing AirPort Extreme Traffic with MRTG

 

• The old ‘about me’ post.

 

• And yes, my T-Shirt is still available, too.

 

If you notice the old pages breaking, please don’t let me know. I really don’t care, it can look bad, but unless a link is broken to something you need I am not going to spend time on fixing it. It’s like a museum! Or ruins! Yay, archeology.