Dec. 09 2011

May. 07 2011

nikography:

a site for those who… care about this stuff.
(forreals, there’s so much to be learned from seeing how other people use and configure their technology)

huh. interesting.

Feb. 01 2011

Nov. 18 2010

Dave Gray » Jason Fried on nature

A short, 5-minute chat with Jason Fried about nature and how it influences his work.

i love a bunch of things about this video.  not just the great discussion but how dave illustrates it throughout.  such a treat.

Oct. 16 2010

Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

Sep. 23 2010

All of our engineers are designers and our designers are engineers. When you separate the two, you get the designers doing things for marketing purposes rather than functional reasons.

Aug. 11 2010

Aug. 01 2010

ambient attention.

what follows is just a quick draft of something i wrote on my phone after arriving in detroit earlier in the week.  it was probably 830a and i had been awake since 330a.  i was waiting for a colleague’s flight to land and drinking an aforementioned americano

thinking abt design & attention. watching ppl photo/video fountain in dtw. goals are set w/ assumption of 100% attention. what abt ambient attention? not looking at the fountain and just hearing it leaves a complete different impression.

cute, right?  lots of opiates rushing to my head, time to kill and an obvious attempt at distracting myself for a bit gets me to realize a design theory that (i’m not sure) is prevalent in actual education about design.

want to really know why i’m essentially marginalizing myself in this post?

not looking at the fountain just made it sound like a urinal row in the men’s bathroom of a football game.  full-on pissing, essentially all day long.

told you.

p.s:  i’m into the neistat brothers now.  thanks thea.

Jul. 28 2010

If you have the choice to invest more time/money into your user experience or some branding campaign, choose the user experience every time.

Experience Precedes Branding (via viiv)

Maybe 90% of the time.

(via mikehudack)

yes, please.

May. 10 2010