Welcome. I guess you have come here hoping to find information about me. I have just managed to get this up and running, and there will be things here to see within a month (mid December 2009) or earlier. Meanwhile, bookmark
I tried a Palm Pre the other day, and my opinion was mixed. The first problem was with Oxford Street rather than Palm or O2. I went in search of a store, and found one with displays which excitedly announced the new phone, but there were none in sight. I thought it a bit strange because there every other type of phone was evident, including a bank of iPhones. So I stood in a short queue,
All was full speed ahead inside the Apple studios when I went to visit on 12 June. Their top designers took the time to meet with me, and for every minute I was there it was clear that all parts of the machine were geared up to the launch of the iPhone3G, Mobile me and the iPhone application store.
Hiroki took me for a quick but interesting tour around the graphics studio – graphic design for web, retail and packaging, and also producers, motion graphics and the print center. Every part of the white walled building was accessed with swipe cards, and only to those who needed
The new mayor of London. Boris johnson, decided as his first act to ban alcohol consumption on public transport . . not that there was a huge problem with it, but it is definitely an easy propaganda win for him. Anyway, some people called for a party on the Circle line, which runs around central London. They publicised it on Facebook and as reported on BBC, thetube party looks like it was a crazy fun night for those involved. I’m sure it poissed off rail staff, but in this time of little protest it is good to see people expressing a bit of petulance in hte face of a tory toff taking the helm in London.
(I will try embedding this video later . .right now I have things to do!)
I think it’s worth posting some ongoing musings on the web app design process as compared to the print design process.
Designing for the web has quite a different set of requirements. I like that you have to constantly think about the structure – where the user goes, how they get there, what they find when they are there and how they get back.
i think that the style and presentation are an additional layer on that, but decisions made about styling can have a direct impact on the method of interaction.
Be An Executioner
It’s so funny when I hear people being so protective of ideas. (People who want me to sign an nda to tell me the simplest idea.)
To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
Explanation:
Awful idea = -1
Weak idea = 1
So-so idea = 5
Good idea = 10
Great idea = 15
Brilliant idea = 20
No execution = $1
Weak execution = $1000
So-so execution = $10,000
Good execution = $100,000
Great execution = $1,000,000
Brilliant execution = $10,000,000
To make a business, you need to multiply the two.The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.
That’s why I don’t want to hear people’s ideas. I’m not interested until I see their execution.
Derek Sivers, president and programmer, CD Baby and HostBab
Quoted from Getting Real by 37 Signals
There has been a long wait to see what Cases i Associats will do in their redesign of the Daily Mirror, and finally we begin to see it. At first glance one might be forgiven for thinking nothing’s changed, but the brief, as I’ve been told was never to radically change the style of the paper.
Turning a few pages and looking more closely, it is clear that there are a lot of changes in the detail and typography. An attractive tailed sans font has been introduced for headlines, and the folios have had a rethink. The folio strap is usd for links as well.
Sport has the biggest transformation, which makes it feel bright and exciting but at the same time far more structured.
I will add to this with some pictures when I have the time, but for now, congratulations to Chico, Jennifer, Toni and anyone else on an excellent job. Case without looking like Cases, and the Mirror looking like the Mirror but brought up to date.
At a glance Apple’s March 6 event yesterday seemed a bit techy, lowkey and it probably won’t get a mention in much of the press, but I’m quietly excited about Apple’s launch of the tools to build applications for the iPhone . . . but not only that, also a store for buying applications – directly onto your iPhone. The iPhone is a fantastic little package, and runs a great platform (iPhone OSX), now there are great tools for making applications, and a great way of distributing, and for the user getting your apps . . I think Jason from 37 signals could have a point, they have all the ingredients for dominating the coming period of mobile computing – including an allilance with microsoft. And as long as Apple manages to build up the range of apps and sales during this the down part of the economic cycle, they could shoot out the other end like a rocket!
What we saw today was the beginning of two-decades of mobile domination by Apple. What Microsoft and Windows was to the desktop, Apple and Touch will be to mobile
Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
That man, who’s world was falling apart and he flipped, threw his son and daughter and himself off the balcony. He was just a man. Its
frightening what people can do. How isolated we can feel, and that
there is no-one to turn to. What an awful fact to live with. For the
mother and for him. Its awful.
But its also a tragedy that there will be little attempt to understand
the pressures that lead to something like this happening, how
alienated we are. Such fear of reflecting.
