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Heuristically Speaking
A while back I decided it would be helpful to organize a list of design heuristics (call them principles, truisms, or generalities) some other folks had written. The original list I worked from mostly came from well-known practitioners in usability and user centered design — people like Jakob Nielsen (who’s pedagogic style I usually find [...]
Location-Based Mobile Apps: Served Up Fast and Hot
Picture this in the not-too-distant future. You’re on your way to pick up some fast food because you’re so amazingly hungry for a new quadruple-decker bacon angus cheeseburger. Your mind is just telling you to go out and get this new meat wad delight, which sits precariously between two deep-fried grilled cheese sandwiches. Hard to [...]
The Shape of Design
I alluded to a design theory about two years ago. Rather than allowing it to collect more cerebral dust as my take on what’s important to design becomes aged with each passing day, I thought I’d share parts of it now. In truth, it’s more of a construct than a theory, and it’s not at [...]
Visual Affect in 50 milliseconds
Over at A List Apart, Patrick Lynch nicely summarizes the essence of one of my favorite books by Don Norman, Emotional Design and applies it to neuro-activity within our brain. In psychology, emotional reactions to stimuli are called affective responses. Affective responses happen very fast, and are governed in an automatic, unconscious way by the [...]
Serving Brain Food Since 1998
As the new tagline says, this site has been serving content since 1998. I don’t know the exact birthday because much of it existed as static content served by the ISP I was with at the time. You could say I was one of the original bloggers. This was long before tools like WordPress or [...]
Google and the Iceberg Principle of Design
A lot has already been said about Douglas Bowman’s decision to leave Google. From what I understand, he was the company’s first visual designer. I don’t know the man, but I think we can take his perspective, at least, at face value. In his goodbye post, he offers a glimpse of the design culture at [...]
Right After You Stage Dive Into a Pit Filled with Broken Glass and Half-eaten Barbituates
Go get some car insurance. That’s right. Tell them Iggy Pop sent you.
Is That the Sound of Liberation or a Shoe Whizzing by Your Face?
I haven’t delved too much into this story, but I can imagine that the sentiment expressed in this BBC piece concerning the infamous shoe torpedo launched at Bush has now largely been echoed by conservative pundits. Many of Mr Bush’s supporters will see it as a mean-spirited gesture against a man whose policies liberated the [...]
