I’ve been thinking about the inconsistent audio and production quality of podcasts and I don’t think it matters. Now, admittedly I’m no audiophile, my podcasts prove it. My point is, if we as people were finicky about production quality, whole sections of media wouldn’t exist; books, text-based video games, instant messaging, and in fact, mobile [...]
I’m not a big fan of shopping for electronics, all the big boxes rub me the wrong way. I’m continually debating between the irritation of going to one of their stores or waiting for Amazon’s delivery. While on Circuit City’s site looking for prices and products I was a little baffled at their product detail [...]
If you haven’t reviewed Darrel’s list of open source applications for designers, now is probably a good time. Adobe just bought Macromedia for $3.4 billion. Macromedia’s and Adobe’s separate suites were OK offerings. The best part of both their suites was that an alternative existed. Now together, perhaps we’ll get the best of both; Photoshop [...]
Tufte’s back in Minneapolis for his “Presenting Data and Information, a 1-Day Course.” There’s 2 days to choose from at Tufte’s site, April 25 (same day as Exhibit A) or 26. If you’re unfamiliar with Tufte, I highly recommend going. The price of admission includes all his books (nearly $130 retail). If you don’t have [...]
Marketing guru Seth Godin shares an image of how our eyes move about Google’s search results page. Outside of it confirming we read upper-left-to-lower-right and the first “natural” search result is the hottest, here are a couple other interesting finds from the image The “fold” cuts right through the 5th search result. The last 2 [...]
RTP Company said, “Start with a clean sheet of paper and see what happens.” So I did.
If you’re interested in exercising your PHP or visual design powers, MNteractive wants you. We’ve got some projects in need of some focused attention (new calendar, a wiki, to name a couple). If you’re interested, drop me a line, and I’ll send you the info.
The Man In Blue offers an interesting approach to liquid based page layout. The never-ending debate over fixed vs. liquid tends to revolve around graphic designer’s wanting control vs. the end user wanting control. The oft-used argument from the graphic designer is the debate over line lengths. Some agree with this, some don’t, but Blue’s [...]
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while. Christina Wodtke of Elegant Hack has redesigned the great Widgetopia site…a blog dedicated to the little visual widgets and icons and doodads we interface designers love to tinker with. It’s an under-read blog IMHO, so hopefully more folks will stumble upon it. Not sure if this [...]
I blogged this live from MCAD’s auditorium. Cohesive, well-formed thoughts…pending…maybe. Juicy bites – definitely. Four Approaches to Comics: Animists; content over form, story speaks for itself Classists; form Iconoclasts; raw, honest, funny Formalist; inventor, scientists Comics = Sequential Art; as you move through space, you move through time The printing press formalized comic forms as [...]