This is a pretty useful article about designing ANYTHING. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/05/29/mud-minimum-usable-design/ Aim for your Minimum Usable Design (for designers. For devs, you're looking at Minimum Viable Product, which is VC-speke). Once you've got that nailed down and functioning, you're 50% of the way there. Now set your next goal for 50% of the way to the […]

To postmodernists et al: Korzybskis oft-quoted "the map is not the territory" presupposes there is a territory. And he went on to say that "a maps usefulness lies in its structural similarity to reality." Maps are not arbitrary; they should be rational. We understand the universe through mental models - maps - but some maps […]

Austin Kleon, whomever he is, has my profound admiration for putting fingers-to-keyboard and writing this out for us all to share in: He says in this post, clearly and concisely, so many things I've concluded, discovered, thought about, and believed in for so long, that it makes me insane with jealousy. To read and understand this […]

  This is one of the most easily-digested of a gaggle of great images related to web/graphic design that you can find over at psdtohtmlguide.com. This reminds me of a favoured saying about jobs/work: You can: enjoy what you do work within the law make lots of money You may choose two. 🙂  

Found in a pdf, an assignment from my first semester of DMA, Interactivity course. These are notes I made in preparation for doing the Crystal Ball gazing assignment: The future of technology is very portable, wearable, perhaps even implantable. A principle of corporate content management systems is not necessarily to make information/data easy to find […]