Airbag International

• C'est la Vie Austin?
• Yellow is the new normal.
• Holiday Office Hours, the Airbag Way.
• The new MacBook Pro, the one without the "Touchbar," is pretty great.
• A moment for us all to rally and answer the call to help someone who has helped us all.
• A peak behind the gigantic enterprise design kimono.
• Jeffrey Zeldman announces a new startup: 1999 2.0.
• Making sense of all the jibba jabba during user research.
• An unexpected, worldwide turn.
• Months ago Zeldman suggested that I forgo single word titles and practice better SEO. He's right. At first, the one word titles thing was fun, but over time, it became one more barrier to publishing. Textism, I did what I could.
• Hired.
• Handicapped.
• Maybe.
• Cupcake.

C'est la Vie Austin?

UnderConsideration, the force behind some of the best and longest running digital publications on design, organizers of amazing conferences, and fellow Austin residents have pulled stakes to move to Bloomington, Indiana. That's right, some incredibly creative, entrepreneurial, smart people just left one of the hottest cities in North America for a small town in Indiana, the type that was recently the subject of parody on television.

Armin Vit (co-founder of UnderConsideration) provided some rationale for this seemingly-crazy relocation.

As an Austin resident of six years I find myself nodding in agreement, especially at the last bit about the airport. Austin Bergstrom was one of the most chill airports in the country and now it's just as stressful as Oakland on a Monday morning—every day. I knew Austin was going to blow up, but I had no idea it would scale so big, so quickly. And it's still growing like crazy. The city and surrounding area is set to double in size in the next twenty years.

I don't know that Kitchen Storey and I could move to the middle-middle of the country, but we're certainly starting to consider that it's time to move back to the Pacific Time Zone. Airport lines be dammed.