About Me
I am David Perel, co-founder of Obox Design and passionate racing driver and designer. I started this web malarkey as I left school and haven't looked back since.
To most in the design/dev industry, the holy grail is to stop doing client work and earn money off a product you sell online. Passive income ftw, right? Well not entirely. Obox still does the…
For me it’s Dieter Rams. Almost literally in fact, I actually got a custom poster made of his 10 design principles and it hangs behind my desk at work. I believe that in order to…
Partners. You either want them or you don’t. Partners have created billion dollar businesses and changed the world. Having someone who can compliment your skills is an asset to your company.
So it goes without saying that when you decide to partner with someone that you make the right choices because just as partners can make you, they can also break you.
Late yesterday afternoon team Obox had an epiphany during a Skype chat on how to improve the setup experience of our themes.
The execution required a simple form which a user would fill in and therefore get sent to us. On the surface this is a super simple feature which will make life a lot easier for some of the more novice users on Obox. However, Nothing is ever so simple is it? Especially when you need to make it seem easy.
When I started out in the tech world at the over-the-hill age of 18 years old, it was at my dads accounting software company, Peresoft. His company has been around for close on 30 years,…
When I hear a potential client utter these words I quiver in my boots. Alarm bells start ringing in my head and I start looking for the closest exit: So, if you do this first…
Elliott Jay Stocks interviews typography designer Erik Spiekermann. There are some really good take aways from this interview, specifically where you should start your design process when deciding on font sizes, line-heights etc. Watch it.
I’d like to share some of my leanings from what has been a character building year. At Obox we stretch ourselves thin to say the least. Some people may call us fragmented but since we…
So, got a fresh new look going on my site along with a completely fresh start. I’m not getting ahead of myself and thinking that because I’ve refreshed my blog I will suddenly start blogging…