Dan Mall Teaches Design Systems, Design Process, and Design Leadership
I Wouldn’t Do It For A Million Dollars
The Hidden Policies That Hold You Back
The Serenity Prayer for Design Businesses
What a Zombie Comic Taught Me About Business (and 4 Other Surprising Books)
Selling Fractions
Balancing Curiosity With Positioning
Great Gig. Not For Me.
Remember When We Agreed That…
Independents’ Day
Buy a Great Bed
Race the Vain Crow
Boundaries for Designers, Part 2
Boundaries for Designers
Reasons for Failure
Show Them the Future
The Wheel of Nothing
It’s Not Right. It’s the Way It Is.
Configintentions
Dan Mall Shares
The ROI of a $10 Discount
Becoming Indispensable
How to Value Price a Project for a Nonprofit
Difficulty as a Moat
Writing a Better Warm Outreach Message
Make More Money
This Competition Exposed How AI is Reshaping Design
I Sold My Agency SuperFriendly
The Timing of an Idea
Tools & Rules
What’s In It For Me?
Content Strategy For a 200-Page Personal Website
A Sneak Peek of the New DanMall.com
Scenes Need to Do More Than One Thing
Just Fries
Take the Risk
Pricing Design, Second Edition
2024 Year in Review
Would You Pay You For That?
581 Miles
The Small Words of Big Challenges
Try It On
The File Folder Structure Every Designer Needs
Subtle Acts of Exclusion
The Job of a CEO
How Did You Pick That Typeface?
The MILES Framework of Unfair Advantages
2024 Stowe Fall Foliage Photography Trip
Choose Your Hard
Applications Are Open: Hiring a Designer Who Can Ship!
Now Hiring: A Designer Who Can Ship
Move Authority to the Information
Gone Fishing
Be Someone to Blame
Adults Can Be Wrong
Don’t Confuse Inputs for Outcomes
Say, Do, Say
Underpromise, Overdeliver: The Greatest Lie a Business Consultant Ever Told
No One Negotiated
A Response to “Hiring Help”
Hiring Help
The Project Within the Project
Event Vindication
What Should I Work On?
My Design Contract Template
Pricing Profitable Projects
Early Conversations Are Where You Shape the Work
Attracting 5-, 6-, and 7-Figure Clients
The Quickest Way to Get Promoted
Starting is Easy. Sustaining is Hard.
Enough to Know
Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick Three?
Don’t Judge a Book By Its Timestamp
Behind the Curtain
Replacing a 9-Figure Company’s Corporate Typeface
How I Choose Typefaces
You Are Special
The Crystal Email
Shoot Your Shot
6 Techniques for Group Decision Making
Math: A Great Design Tool
Spine
The Advantages of Imposter Syndrome
The Journey to a Dream Client
Creating Portfolio Pieces
My 40th Birthday in Peru
How Long Does It Take to Design a Landing Page?
A “Definition of Done” Template
Talk About Yourself
How to Get Free Mentorship from Someone You Admire
2023 Year in Review
Call it Good
Tell Me Everything
The Sweet Spot for Design System Work
Does Web Design Matter?
Improve Your Webcam Quality
A Case Study: Building an Accounting Brand & Website
Commit to Commit
Creating a Success Metrics Tracking Practice
Designing Everything
2023 Adirondacks Fall Foliage Photography Trip
Answers to Common Design Questions
How Much of a Rascal Are You?
How to Calculate Opportunity Profit
Career Paths, Ladders, and Leveling in Design Systems
A Design System Coach’s Portfolio
Breaking Down Design System Effort by Week
The Rest is History
Extravagance as Savviness
In Search of a Better Design System Metric than Adoption
Don’t Get Paid What You’re Worth
Salary and Income Transparency: Now With More Context!
Consent to Proceed
Add a Chapter
Config 2023 Recap
Mastering Manual and Mundane Work
How to Pitch Anything to Anyone
Pre-Launch Jitters
Artificial Intelligence & Humanity
The “Free” Part of “Full Price or Free”
Full Price or Free
I’ll Match Your Effort
The Work Always Wins
How To Be a Hands-On Leader Even Though You Know You Shouldn’t But You Will Be Anyway
One Fundamental Decision
Deliver Value Every Week
Leaving Room for Creativity in Design System Work
Should You Work in Design Systems?
Mentorship vs. Coaching vs. Directing vs. Modeling
Designing a Landing Page In 30 Minutes For $10k
Choosing Between Two Good Options
The Danger of ‘Whaddya Think?’
My Daily Recap Template
A Simple Framework For Building Trust
What is a Design System?
2022 Year in Review
Yes, Under These Conditions
Whoever Wants It More Does the Work
Ask
Three Times is a Pattern
Great tools choose to be bad at some things
Frequency illusion
Digital Nomad History
superfriEnd
Surprise! Why the Unexpected Feels Good, and Why It’s Good For Us
Tonic Website Templates
The Rise of A.I. Art
Real numbers from 16 income streams - 2021/22 income report
A Whole Cascade of Layers
I built something!
The case for null in design systems
The Folly of Design System “Foundations”
Measuring Quality with Design Systems
Identifying Useful Design System Patterns
Measuring Speed with Design Systems
Design System Coverage
10 Years of SuperFriendly
2021 Year in Review
SuperFriendly 2021 Wrap-Up
Design Systems Prepare You for Change
Design Systems & Magic
Design Tokens Resources
It’s Easier to Revise than Create
May 30 – June 5, 2021
May 23 – May 29, 2021
Building Momentum
May 16 – May 22, 2021
May 09 – May 15, 2021
May 02 – May 08, 2021
Play with Arcade
Support Systems for Learning
My Typical Day
2020 Year in Review
SuperFriendly 2020 Wrap-Up
Design Systems for Email
A Syllabus for Web Design & Web Development Apprenticeships
A CEO’s COVID-19 Calendar
Useful Sections for a Design System Reference Site
Making Design Systems Public
Better Webcam Video
2019 Year in Review
SuperFriendly in 2020
More on Bootstrap for Your Design System
Should You Use Bootstrap or Material Design for Your Design System?
The Hot Potato Process
Communication Arts Interactive 2020
Avengers: Endgame
Typography in Design Systems
My Experience with Laser Eye Surgery
Break-Even Points for Value Pricing
Designer + Developer Collaboration Workshop
Starting a Design System
2018 Year in Review
Clients by Brand Color
Passing the SuperBooked Baton
Design Systems: Mastering Design at Scale
Work With Me to Redesign the Shop Talk Show Website
A Portfolio Hiring Managers Can’t Deny
Designer + Developer Workflow
Smashing Conference Toronto 2018
Distinct Design Systems
The Only-ness Statement
How to Scope Work
Stealing Your Way to Original Designs
Design Systems: Pilots & Scorecards
Bad News. Good News. So What?
Cooking with Design Systems
Investments
Voting for Trump is Unbiblical
Accountability
SuperBooked
Researching Design Systems
Apprenticeships
Thanks, Mike Davidson
Selling Design Systems
Oil Change & Pizza
Permission Slips
Content & Display Patterns
Titles are Important
I Don’t Have Time
Time for Work
Switch
Finished Business(ology)
Finding Clients
Pricing
The Businessology Roadshow
On Creative Direction
Authenticity
FullCodePress
Typedia