Stuntbox — David Sleight’s Website

Hello, I’m David Sleight.

I’m a design director who makes interactive things—mostly for the web, but always for humans.

I specialize in user experience, product design and editorial presentation, and I’ve been doing that for awhile now. You can learn more about me, browse the entries I’ve published, or drop me a line.

Recent Stuff

June 7
April 3
Prisencolinensinainciusol, All Right
March 23
FTC Proposes “Click to Cancel”
March 22
RIP, DPReview
March 15
February 7
Getty Sues AI Toolmaker for Copyright Infringement
February 6

I’ve noticed a tendency for folks in business settings to talk about design as being either “data-oriented” or not. I feel like that does a disservice to qualitative measures like user testing, which are absolutely vital to good design and often left out of people’s notions of what qualifies as “data.”
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December 19
Anywhere But Here

Brief remarks on the death of Twitter as we knew it, and my digital whereabouts thereafter.
December 11
Why Victorian Houses Are So Damn Creepy
November 7

Featured Entries

What is Art Direction for the Web?

Andy Clarke has written a wonderful new book about art direction for the web, and I got to play a little part in it.
The Big Web Show: Design That’s Fast and Design That’s Slow
Fitting Design to the News

Because it’s often tangled up with personal taste, conversations about news design can get very messy, very fast.