Joe Taylor Jr. Newsletter - April 3, 2026 Joe Taylor Jr. Thoughts on UX, leadership, and building things that matter Hey Reader — I just published a piece called "35 Years of Posting Things Online," and the act of writing it made me confront something I've been avoiding for way too long. I started posting on the internet in 1991. And then I went quiet on my own site for four years. The quietness wasn't intentional. It's what happens when you spend most of your energy helping clients tell...
9 days ago • 5 min read
Johns & Taylor Newsletter - April 1, 2026 We help exceptional clients build (and run) effective websites. From Joe's Desk Hey Reader, There's a phase in every project that doesn't get celebrated enough — the unglamorous middle part where you move from building to inspecting. This week, three of our client projects hit that exact checkpoint. None of that makes for a flashy update, but that's precisely what separates a website that launches cleanly from one that launches with surprises. What...
11 days ago • 4 min read
Joe Taylor Jr. Newsletter - March 27, 2026 Joe Taylor Jr. Thoughts on UX, leadership, and building things that matter Hey Reader — I just came off a week away from work, and the thing I keep coming back to is how boring the first two days of vacation were. Not bad-boring. Productive-boring. The kind where your brain finally stops solving problems long enough to remember what it's like to just... be somewhere. I spent a lot of time listening to music I hadn't queued up in months, reading...
16 days ago • 5 min read
Johns & Taylor Newsletter - March 25, 2026 We help exceptional clients build (and run) effective websites. From Joe's Desk Hey Reader, I took some time off last week. Actual time off — no Slack, no Teamwork notifications, no "just checking one thing real quick." And here's what I noticed when I came back: the work kept moving. That sounds obvious, but it's worth sitting with for a second. We spend so much energy building processes, documenting decisions, creating systems that don't depend on...
17 days ago • 5 min read
Joe Taylor Jr. Newsletter - March 5, 2026 Joe Taylor Jr. Thoughts on UX, leadership, and building things that matter Hey Reader — I've been thinking a lot about transitions lately. March is that weird month where we're stuck between seasons — the planning mindset of early year hasn't quite burned off, but you can feel the execution push building. In those in-between spaces, something interesting happens. The best work I've ever done came right at the seam of something ending and something new...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Johns & Taylor Newsletter - March 3, 2026 We help exceptional clients build (and run) effective websites. From Joe's Desk Hey Reader, You hear the word "craft" thrown around a lot in our industry. It gets attached to everything from design thinking to code reviews. But in the actual work of websites, craft shows up in the details nobody sees — the redirect that resolves on the first try, the data import that validates clean, the production freeze that goes smoothly because the preparation was...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Joe Taylor Jr. Newsletter — February 27, 2026 Joe Taylor Jr. Thoughts on UX, leadership, and building things that matter Hey Reader — I didn't have a ton of free time over the past few weeks, otherwise I would have watched way more Gold Zone coverage of the Winter Games. I am getting over the fact that I won't have curling on in the background between meetings. But I did watch a figure skater's comeback story last week. It got me thinking about how we talk about pressure in creative and...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Johns & Taylor Newsletter — February 25, 2026 We help exceptional clients build (and run) effective websites. From Joe's Desk Hey Reader, There's a moment in every web project I look forward to more than the launch itself. It's the moment all the scattered work—wireframes, content spreadsheets, design mockups, stakeholder feedback—suddenly snaps together into something that looks and feels like a real website. That happened twice for us last week. A therapy practice saw twelve page templates...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Joe Taylor Jr. Newsletter - February 20, 2026 Joe Taylor Jr. Thoughts on UX, leadership, and building things that matter Hey Reader — I've been thinking about beginnings this week. We kicked off a brand new project with a community health organization, ran a demo for another client that's been months in the making, and documented a fresh batch of user stories for an enterprise platform. Three completely different starting lines, all in the same five days. What struck me is how different each...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
