“These are the actions that define the Christian lifestyle. The irony, of course, is that few Christians actually do any of this.”
March 21, 2012
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This guy was a designer at IBM for ten years, and after being laid off he reflects on what he was able to “learn, teach, discover, accomplish, survive” in that time. There’s good stuff here, and not just for big companies.
March 21, 2012
“For the great task of Ecclesiastes is to expose the dynamic at work behind service to the powers, the pursuit of meaning and self-esteem through the cultural hero system. Who is Oz, the force behind the curtain pulling the levers of achievement, reputation, significance, and self-esteem? What Ecclesiastes shows us, in pulling back the curtain, is exactly what Ernest Becker has shown us: death is the force in the background driving the show.” “Because of this Ecclesiastes talks a lot about death. And for a culture dominated by a denial of death that topic can seem morbid and depressing. But think about how death is being used in Ecclesiastes. Death is being deployed to show the futility of the self-esteem project, that idolatry is, at root, a service to the angel of death. Ecclesiastes isn’t about existentialism and angst. Ecclesiastes is interested in smashing idols. Ecclesiastes is interested in exorcism, purging our soul of death-oriented spiritual strivings. Ecclesiastes is trying to get us to stand with St. Paul and declare that the self-esteem project is one big pile of ‘rubbish’:”
March 21, 2012
bible / ecclesiastes / hebrew-bible / richard-beck / theology
We need to… ask “Where is it working?” when we consider content and functionality. Does this really enhance the user experience? How does this make good business sense?
March 18, 2012
a list apart / content strategy / design / mobile / user experience
“The question we should always be asking ourselves is: what information have we gathered that we can use to create a better experience and make our content more useful?”
March 13, 2012
From Jonny Ive: “A: We struggle with the right words to describe the design process at Apple, but it is very much about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers. If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it’s new you are confronting problems and challenges you don’t have references for. To solve and address those requires a remarkable focus. There’s a sense of being inquisitive and optimistic, and you don’t see those in combination very often.”
March 13, 2012
“We need to relinquish control of our content as well, setting it free from the boundaries of a traditional web page to flow as needed through varied displays and contexts. Most conversations about structured content dive headfirst into the technical bits: XML, DITA, microdata, RDF. But structure isn’t just about metadata and markup; it’s what that metadata and markup mean.”
March 2, 2012
52weeksofux: Ghosts: invisible specters often thought to be trapped between worlds, left to torment the living or act as a messenger from the beyond. They invoke fear because we can’t touch them, can’t see them, and we don’t fully understand their existence—much like the mysterious design decisions that…
February 24, 2012
Loved this. A real example of the current state of SVG, along with how great a solution it can be within a responsive design workflow.
February 23, 2012
Luke Wroblewski’s notes from Karen McGrane’s “Adaptive Web Content” talk at Atlanta’s An Event Apart. I’ve been watching Karen’s thoughts on this over the last few months, and am seeing infinite places where what she’s talking about is needed.
February 15, 2012