It make take longer to wireframe with her on my lap, but it's worth it. #cat

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Traffic is a big benefit of big platforms and one of the reasons an independent shop seems so intimidating. What if no one uses it? Tomorrow's newsletter will give you a tip on how to build traffic to your own site... before it even exists. #smallbusiness #artbusiness

With the prior bandanas coming in (and gosh, they're good quality), it's time for more! Bats, Wolves (you asked for it) and Sharks! #furry #furryart #merch #graphicdesign www.kickstarter.com/projects/cap...

If you get self-conscious about posting repeated promo, let me give you all my long-standing promo-hack, for free. (I'm not currently using it, but I will be soon! lol) This is a site without an algo, but also one that does not punish links. So what you want to do is make a strategic thread.

do one productive thing… then emotionally recover for 6 hours. #rhondaj #contentcreator #creativebusiness #womeninbusiness #smallbusiness

As someone who's done years of user experience design, this is absolutely true

This is SO cool.

shipping just got more expensive

Because most mobile websites have abysmal UX and I’m not downloading an app for one thing.

It’s been a long while since I’ve had to do any real marketing, so I’ve been trying to catch up. Youtube is, of course, a gold mine for very different perspectives. Thread of #marketing takeaways while I learn how to do this the less corporate way!

this is somehow even funnier than when they cried over losing their NFTs because that time they thought they were art collectors and this time they think they’re property owners

i present to you, my fellow ui/ux designers, this absolute masterpiece from my hotel room

Spot on: vimeo.com/1168468796

Recently I summarized why small businesses, especially ones with shops on platforms like Etsy, should have their own email list: cagebreakerscreative.com/blogs/articl... #smallbusiness #artbusiness

Getting engineering and CS people to understand this and then move past their anger at it to actually doing something meaningful and useful with it is like the vast majority of my work these days

I'm still 10 toes on whoever worked on the high-contrast modes in Windows fumbled the UX bag by not making the preview images the actual way to select a theme. Instead, we have to use the dropdown and hit apply. Why? The opportunity is right there. #UI #UX

For Android, it's done through the app switch interface, which is convenient but not exactly an intuitive place to put the function.

alt-text psa: if you don’t feel like typing out all of the text in a text-based image, ios has a function that allows you to copy/paste the text in an image (I know android has something similar

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

The next newsletter coming out is about why you should have an email list. In that vein... if you would like it early, you can join the email list: cagebreakerscreative.com/pages/newsle...

putting "_FINAL" in a filename is a kind of prayer

I wrote an email a bit ago about how to pick a shop host for your business very roughly based on difficulty level: cagebreakerscreative.com/blogs/archiv... I forgot to mention another important thing about picking hosts: Do they allow your content?

I'm very proud of the header image I drew for this profile. My art skills did not disappear entirely after years of neglect.

Hi! I’m Ed and this is Cagebreaker’s Creative, a solo-run service making ecommerce sites for small creative businesses taking that first step off of Etsy.