Brace yourself. I’ve been dustin’ some cobwebs off stopdesign. It’s high time. In the words of James Todd Smith…

Don’t call it a comeback, I been here for years. I’m rockin’ my peers, puttin’ suckers in fear.

@stop Twenty years ago today, Wired launched a seminal redesign of its website that helped catapult forward web technology and what our industry understood as possible for commercial websites. stopdesign.com/archive/2022/1…

@stop Replaced by multiple designs many times over. Twenty years is so much time. And with internet years being like dog years, the early era of the web feels like another lifetime ago.

@stop Wired’s 2002 redesign was a just small nudge in the bigger push forward to evolve the web’s purpose and utility.

I’m grateful I got to be a part of making it happen. And that my career didn’t end with that accomplishment. For me, Wired was only the beginning.