Mickey’s 10 Commandments

Jun. 21, 2008 in ideas, podcasts, process

Who could possibly know more than Disney about guiding, exciting and entertaining people? Interface designers can learn a lot from “Mickey’s 10 Commandments”, developed by Walt Disney Imagineering President, Marty Sklar. (commandments in bold, my comments beneath)

1. Know your audienceThe first…

Are You Publishing or Gardening?

Jun. 17, 2008 in ideas

From the time Sumerians first scratched pictographs into clay tablets, we’ve created content by making our thoughts physical, be it on stone, sheepskin or paper. That’s around 5000 years of sealing our ideas in atoms, which are pretty resistant to…

Stowe Boyd Lays Down the Law

Jun. 15, 2008 in ideas, social media

Stowe Boyd responded to a typical re-hash of the “connectedness = overload = falling productivity” argument against social media, but to be honest, the argument (yawn) wasn’t nearly as interesting as Stowe’s response. It’s a lovely visionary rant about a future…

Top-Down Boxes or Bottom-Up Piles?

May. 24, 2008 in ideas, interface

A chat with Ryan Singer after the next08 has been bouncing around in my head for a few days. We got onto some basic info architecture assumptions which define almost all sites my company makes, and most sites in the web. The…

They Love it Live

Apr. 10, 2008 in ideas, music, net life

Early last year I lost a few extremely creative and intelligent colleagues, which was sad. What wasn’t sad at all was why they left—to work on a project which inspired and excited them all to the point that they’ve rarely…

Apple. Innovative?

Jan. 22, 2008 in apple, design, ideas

Those of you who don’t live in the design world or aren’t Apple Believers might not have heard of Dieter Rams, the world-famous designer of the world-famous Apple Look… ah, urm, wait a sec.

Dieter Rams is actually a kick-ass industrial designer mostly…

The Medium is Still the Message

Jan. 15, 2008 in design, ideas, intelligence, marketing

I’ve been designing websites professionally since 1995, and never has any site I’ve worked on been discussed as much as the new Sinnerschrader site, and, to be exact, it’s not even a site at all.

Let’s get the full disclosure out…